Sheesh I have been majorly slacking on my blogging lately. I really need to get back to it because it helps me keep more organized with my training. Something I REALLY need to make an effort to do.
I haven't posted about the awesome seminar we went to during the July 10th weekend. Our local club hosted a competition obedience seminar with Janice Gunn, who is an amazing trainer out of Canada. I got a working spot with Falkor and it was a fantastic weekend! I would highly recommend her to anyone that gets a chance to go to one of her seminars. Janice is an awesome presenter and a very down to earth person. We had a lot of working time in the ring which was great and I feel like I learned a lot. We even got some one on one training time with her to focus on Falkor's zoomie issue. Of course he didn't zoom in the building so Janice could see exactly what he does, but she gave me some very helpful suggestions about things to try with him. She also suggested that I find a BIG open place where I can take Falkor to just run and run. I've scoped out a few places around here and as soon as this awful heatwave breaks we are going to give it a try.
Janice has a specific system that she uses to teach heeling and I am going to try it with Falkor. Heeling is my weakness and I think her system will help us get a good foundation started. I also hot a ton of ideas for teaching higher level exercises and we have started working on broad jump training and go out training.
Falkor was a very good boy at the seminar and wow was he tired by Sunday night. LOL I was interested to see how he was going to do because he is not comfortable being crated at the club. He has no problems with being crated at home or in the car but he doesn't always do well when we are away from home. So I took his giant soft crate and a HUGE rolled rawhide bone to hopefully keep him busy while he was crated. It worked like a charm and he had no problem being crated when we weren't working in the ring. It was a big relief for me. Although our problem isn't totally solved because I tried to crate him at the club on Monday while I had Famke in class and he was acting like a ding dong in the crate the entire time! We'll work on it!
We are currently in a an Advanced Obedience class and we just started a Rally class this past Thursday. He was VERY *up* during class on Thursday and it was great to see all that enthusiasm and excitement. I just need to be able to harness that energy a wee bit. :)
We have a Rally fun match tomorrow (WOO-HOO!!!) at a local training center and I am just thrilled. It's been really hard to find or get to fun matches around here and that is what we desperately need. I am going to try to bring my Flip camera and mini tripod and tape our runs tomorrow.
Ughh the heat is KILLING ME!! The way our house is set up makes it hard for me to train inside, with the exception of stays and stationary things, and its been too bloody hot to train outside. It's well into the 80's with 100% humidity at 7 in the morning!!
I haven't posted about the awesome seminar we went to during the July 10th weekend. Our local club hosted a competition obedience seminar with Janice Gunn, who is an amazing trainer out of Canada. I got a working spot with Falkor and it was a fantastic weekend! I would highly recommend her to anyone that gets a chance to go to one of her seminars. Janice is an awesome presenter and a very down to earth person. We had a lot of working time in the ring which was great and I feel like I learned a lot. We even got some one on one training time with her to focus on Falkor's zoomie issue. Of course he didn't zoom in the building so Janice could see exactly what he does, but she gave me some very helpful suggestions about things to try with him. She also suggested that I find a BIG open place where I can take Falkor to just run and run. I've scoped out a few places around here and as soon as this awful heatwave breaks we are going to give it a try.
Janice has a specific system that she uses to teach heeling and I am going to try it with Falkor. Heeling is my weakness and I think her system will help us get a good foundation started. I also hot a ton of ideas for teaching higher level exercises and we have started working on broad jump training and go out training.
Falkor was a very good boy at the seminar and wow was he tired by Sunday night. LOL I was interested to see how he was going to do because he is not comfortable being crated at the club. He has no problems with being crated at home or in the car but he doesn't always do well when we are away from home. So I took his giant soft crate and a HUGE rolled rawhide bone to hopefully keep him busy while he was crated. It worked like a charm and he had no problem being crated when we weren't working in the ring. It was a big relief for me. Although our problem isn't totally solved because I tried to crate him at the club on Monday while I had Famke in class and he was acting like a ding dong in the crate the entire time! We'll work on it!
We are currently in a an Advanced Obedience class and we just started a Rally class this past Thursday. He was VERY *up* during class on Thursday and it was great to see all that enthusiasm and excitement. I just need to be able to harness that energy a wee bit. :)
We have a Rally fun match tomorrow (WOO-HOO!!!) at a local training center and I am just thrilled. It's been really hard to find or get to fun matches around here and that is what we desperately need. I am going to try to bring my Flip camera and mini tripod and tape our runs tomorrow.
Ughh the heat is KILLING ME!! The way our house is set up makes it hard for me to train inside, with the exception of stays and stationary things, and its been too bloody hot to train outside. It's well into the 80's with 100% humidity at 7 in the morning!!
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That heat sounds positively disgusting! Makes me appreciate the weather out here a whole lot more.;) The seminar sounds really cool!
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