Thank You Dawn for running Seeker today!

Dawn agreed to run Seeker today.

She's never run Seeker, but she was willing to give it a try. 

Seeker has ran with someone else a year ago, 

so I knew THAT wouldn't be a problem!

I e-mailed her 'directions', the Do's and Don't's of Seeker.

As I looked at the 'incomplete' list, I decided 

that I sure do have a LOT of rules!

For me, consistency is important! 

Dawn did a FANTASTIC JOB!

They smoked Jumpers!

YIPPEE!!!

Standard, well....Seeker didn't follow the 'plan'. 

I think, he might have testing Dawn a bit.

First he ran through the A-Frame, then topped it 

off with a run through teeter!

Seeker was saying,
"You're NOT the boss of ME!"

Um, I guess he was wrong, 

as Dawn carted his little black and white butt

back to his crate.  

Good thing he's NOT a Great Dane!

GAME OVER!!

Hopefully she'll be willing to run him tomorrow!

Hey Dawn, see if he'll do his 'hike it' trick for you.

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Sprinkler FUN!!!

Got home from MN about 7PM.

Nettle was in an X-Pen all day....

TIME TO PLAY!!

Nettle and Seeker having FUN in the Sprinkler!

 Seeker's NEW favorite GAME!!

I do wonder if Seeker didn't 

"LOVE IT"

If Nettle would?

Hum....how much of behavior is

learned from mimicking other dogs?

Meet Nettle!

 

A  12 weeks old black curly Portuguese water dog.  

We've had her two weeks now and we've had a 

heck of a time finding a name.  

I really like the name Geilie, and 

I still find myself calling her that.....

but, I'm sure I can be taught!

Presently we are working on –

Pivot or Perch work

Wrapping around a pole

Crate Games

Pottying on a leash – especially important for those of us that travel!

Basic Good Puppy manners

Tugging

Chase Games

Meeting new people, canines, cats and birds. 

And “Being Quiet” in her kennel. 

This ones seems to be her biggest challenge!! 

Thankfully she’s quite in the van while it’s moving.

Seeker LOVES her!

Mad and Kruz think she could go back now!

She's able to find EVERY stick in the yard!

Seeker's Tail is taking a BEATING!!!

Our hoses are now all SOAKERS! 

Thanks to the holes she's put in them!

Trust me, she is NOT bringing this toy to ME!

 Party of ONE!

She's such a little FREAK!!

See Below!

You have NO IDEA!!!

We now need help with a Registered Name!!


It's from the "Q" litter!
YUCK!


I personally feel Q should be SKIPPED!!  
Kind of like the 13th floor of the hotel!!


So HELP!
A couple ideas thus far....

Kalista's Quick Get A Net

Kalista's Quite The Catch

Give me a little SKIN!!!!

Our contact pieces now have rubber skins over the aluminum sheeting!

 Thanks to Jeff for helping us ALL DAY Saturday!!!

Master Designer and Einstein Extraordinaire!

Thanks you Marsha for coming over to help with 

the A-FRAME!!!

 You think they are happy workers?

It's the FUMES!

Actually they are celebrating the LAST 

piece of skin being applied.

Jeff flipping and re-attaching the aluminum skin.

The old sanded/painted side is now underneath.

 

 Bill is busy sanding down the old rivets.

 

Cougar is in charge of 'Inventory'.

The first contact applied to the teeter.

We started with the smallest piece first in order to 'perfect' our technique!

Some of the supplies.

 The Teeter Seam!

 The top plank of the dogwalk.

Sure is Purdy!

 Jeff securing the dogwalk contact seam.  

The slats were preformed in the rubber.

 This morning, the seams all looked GREAT!

Here's the A-Frame with just the Yellow Contact Zone attached. 

Jeff perfected the 'wax and freezer paper' application technique!  

I'm confident we could do our next set in less than 1/2 the time!

 

World Masters Event - 1989

Well, if you think you had a 'bad' weekend lately, 

check out the agility's 'beginnings'!!

I'm pretty sure most of us could compete 'well' against these folks.

As Becky said to me, "We've come a LONG way baby!"

Kruz and Bill Earn their PAX!!!

Kruz and his best friend, Bill finished his PAX

on Saturday at the ICDOC trial in the Quad Cities.

He'll be 'Grandfathered' in for his PACH 

on July 1st, just a couple weeks.

Thank you Marsha for the DQs you earned last Fall,

and the CAKE - it was delicious!!!!!

Kruz turned 13 in March, and has been so fortunate

to have had an injury free career.

He'll continue to run in the JWW class for awhile,

and help the judges with their Judging!

His absolute FAVORITE think to do!

Confucius Says.......

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand"

I wonder if Confucius was a Dog Trainer?

I often find that I 'hear' an idea and think to myself "What a great idea", only to forget to do it later on.  If I 'see' someone actually doing it, I'm more likely to try it.  If I actually 'do' it, then I understand it and will follow through.  Well, most of the time. 

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Maybe it's time to quit the training session? 

Make a better plan so both of you can be successful.  

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

Just because you've ALWAYS done it that way, doesn't mean there might not be another way. 

Maybe it will result in a better outcome, maybe it won't.   

Think outside the box and don't be afraid to explore others ideas.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

Try and try again!  

Always reach for those goals, whatever they might be.

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

Okay, so maybe Confucius wasn't an Agility Competitor.  VBG