Archive for 'Agility training'
Flash weaving movies
While at Fair Hill in October we purchased photos done by Sport Photography CA. I just put one of the series they did into a Flash movie of our BC Jolt weaving. You can view them on our Photo page.
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under Agility training, Agility trialing, Jolt, Photos.
Tags: agility, border collie, weaving
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Excuses…
Joon lives. Really. I know I haven’t written anything since NOVEMBER 28th! (I actually didn’t realize it was that long ago! Oh my.)
Let’s see, first of all I caught a cold - had no voice, a head full of stuff, and then it segued into an ear infection, and now I can’t hear. It’s been [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2007 under Agility training, Clicker training, Dog training, Joon.
Tags: Dog training, training a retrieve, two-balls game
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New Years Day Games at Mountain View
AKC’s new FAST game, a game of strategy where distance skills are very useful
USDAA’s Snooker, a game of strategy where control is very useful (not that it’s not useful in FAST too).
By popular demand, we’ll throw in a tunnelers game, for the blast it gives the dogs.
More information is available at http://www.mountainviewdogs.com.
Posted: December 21st, 2006 under Agility training, Dog training.
Tags: agility games, Mountain View Dog Training
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Tuck the Floor Dog
As inferred earlier Tuck did not come without issues, and it only took me about a day and a half to find out what the biggest one was. That’s when he started resource guarding, and the biggest resource he was guarding was me. He decided that Libby was not to be allowed near [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2006 under Agility training, Cats and dogs, Dog training, Tuck.
Tags: resource guarding
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Joon
This little lady just joined our pack today. She belonged to a local cattle farmer who uses his Border collies to herd the cattle. Joon wasn’t “enough dog” for the job, apparently, and they sought a home where she could be active, understood - and have a job. Joon’s a year old, sweet as [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2006 under Agility training, Clicker training, Dog training, Joon.
Tags: agility, border collie, new dog
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Intro post
I’m a dog trainer specializing in agility, playing at it with my own dogs who are pictured at the top of these pages. I have other dogs whose photos I plan to share. Pictured here is Ernie, our Cairn terrier, who did a bang-up job in AKC Novice and Open agility as well as Excellent [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2006 under Agility training, Agility trialing, Dog training.
Tags: Averill, blogging, Cairn terrier, dogs
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