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Archive for February, 2010

One more reason to go to the park with the dogs…

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | Comments Off

I take the girls out to Sandy River Delta Park a few times a week. It's good for their fitness to run and play off-leash. It helps keep them somewhat sociable (although they have serious fence issues!). It's good for ...

It’s probably a mistake to say this out loud…

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in training | Comments Off

But training is going very well right now. Contacts look good in practice; I've added a contact cue for the 2-on-2-off ("yellow"); the teeter looks amazing (Dancer's wagging her tail while she does the teeter); tunnel/contact discriminations are vastly improved. ...

Teeter Training Report…

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles, training | Comments Off

Yep. Another one. Debbie and I worked out two more things to add to the teeter training basket. (Summary below.) Now that Dancer is more comfortable with the tip, we put the teeter against a 24" table, so that she walked down ...

Moment of panic…

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »

I had a moment of horrendous panic today with Dancer... she's fine now but... quite a story so take a deep breath. She was jumping out of the car, seemed fine, then every time she went to put ...