New recipe
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in dog food recipes | Comments OffI went to the grocery store yesterday and they were OUT OF CHICKEN LIVERS! So I had to figure out a different way to make a treat that wouldn't be disgusting in your pocket. I bought two pounds of ground ...
More teeter work for Dancer
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffI am trying the take it on the road, as many places as possible, approach to Dancer's teeter. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I am doing short lessons with Pritamo, who gave Elly and me our start in agility four years ...
Elly has such good manners….
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffElly has always eaten lying down. Of late, however, she has taken to gently pushing--with the back of her right paw--one side of her food bowl up, away from her, and eating out of the slightly tipped bowl. In my ...
Fun at the NADAC Trial
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in life with poodles, trials | Comments OffDancer and I Q'd in both events--Tunnelers (2nd) and Hoopers (3rd)--on Friday, in three events (of 6) on Saturday--Tunnelers (2nd), Jumpers (3rd), and Chances--and three events on Sunday--Weavers (three sets of 6 weave poles!) (4th), Jumpers (2nd), and Chances. Dancer ...
More teeter work
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffWhy yes, I do know this is getting boring. That's the goal. To get Dancer to the point where she thinks the teeter is boring instead of scary. Lesson today. Big scary noisy metal teeter. Dancer trots right over it at ...
By George, I think she’s got it…
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffYesterday I took Miss Dancer to Canine College to work some more on her contacts. She did a stellar job with her dog walk contacts, an okay job with her A-frame contacts... and then ran over to the teeter--set to ...
I swear I saw a lightbulb over her head…
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffI have been working with Dancer with the teeter for months now. In early July I started working with a method described in Clean Run magazine: basically, you reward the dog for going near the teeter by calling her AWAY ...
Elly has me well trained…
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI took the girls to Marymoor today, with plans of a nice long walk. We went once around and I noticed Elly was limping a fair bit--she is still dealing with on-again-off-again tendinitis in her left bicep--so I headed to ...
Okay, so it’s not THAT easy…
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in agility titles, trials | Comments OffDancer has been doing so well with Jumpers course that I really thought we'd have a chance to Q this weekend. It was a four-day trial, one Jumpers run each day (and a FAST run). So four chances in Excellent ...