Happy Birthday Brenda!

 

Happy Birthday Brenda, can't believe she will have been with us a year next week, where does the time go! x

Going for Gold

Kody and Chaos have started obedience classes again, this time on a Wednesday evening so hopefully ill be able to go a bit more often. Chaos is in the Bronze class working towards his Bronze Good Citizen award. For the first 45 mins last night he hated it, decided walking on the floor wasn't an option and he could only slide along on his belly! Sounds comical I know. By the end though he had settled down and although 'normal' walking still wasnt happening it was a little better. He did do sit and down stays, recalls and showed off his tricks though.

Kody is in the Silver/Gold class and will be working towards his Gold Good citizen. He did lots of lovely heel work and recalls were excellent. His down stay needs practice though, he broke it 4 times in 2 mins!!!

Today they have all done some agility training, I introduced the flat tunnel into some jumping sequences for Chaos, as you can see in the video he is coming along nicely.

Agility Nuts and Training

Last weekend we went to Agility Nuts for the day. I always like their shows. This weekend there were lots of Mali's there which was great and I managed to take a few photos in between rain showers. The dogs didn't run too badly, Kody was a good boy and got a 3rd in Agility. We took part in pairs too, Kody ran with Speedy and Heidi ran with Zippy. We had a few mistakes but it was such good fun!

We have had a rest from training for a few days but had a short session today, Chaos is really doing well, making more progress and becoming more confident each session we do. I can now send him on to the tunnel and he has learned the tyre this week too (took a while as he was scared of it!). He is getting much quicker, I don't think he is going to be a slow dog that's for sure!

Continuing Training

This week I have managed to get in a fair few short training sessions with Brenda and Chaos. I have been doing 5-10 mins every other day with them and Chaos seems to have taken to agility really well and has progressed much more quickly than Brenda, he just loves to jump! This week they have learned the long jump and the flat tunnel. Chaos loved the long jump straight away but didn't like the flat tunnel whereas Brenda seem equally happy with both. Today I set up the flat tunnel in the garden and positioned it so that the wind blew through it, opening up the end a little. I got Brenda to go through it rewarding her at the end and let Chaos watch, he soon joined in as I guessed he would and now he is loving it too.

The bigger dogs have had a few days rest but I plan to do some training with them over the next few days.