We have been a bit limited as to our activities this past week as we have got no van. Somebody drove into it on the car park at my work so it has been away getting fixed. I have had a courtesy car for the past 10 days which doesnt take dogs! Chaos has had to miss his training classes on a Saturday morning.
We have had good weather this week though so we have done some training at home. I've stopped the trick training with Chaos for a while as his general behaviour training was lacking, he wasnt coming when called, if he thinks he has to have a collar and lead on he runs a mile and he is just being a monkey! So we have done lots of work on recalls and it seems to be working, he is sprinting in from the garden now and comes back when he is alone, just not so well if there is another dog with him. We will keep working on it though. We are also focusing on getting him to play. He liked a game of tuggy when we first had him, then his teeth started to come out and he wouldnt play at all but they are all gone now and the new ones are coming through nicely so he is enjoying playing again which is good and I have got him playing tug now out in the field (he wouldnt before) so we are now going to build on playing in different locations.
With Kody I am mainly focusing on getting him to run on ahead of me, so far we have just done straight lines but he is really driving forward to his toy so I am pleased with how well he is doing.
Heidi has this week been working on calmness and focus before being allowed to do anything. She gets so over excited and I think a lot of that causes her to knock poles for we will continue with being clam at the start line for the rest of the winter.
Brenda had been learning some basic jumping sequences and is doing very nicely, she has only had about 3 sessions at home but im so pleased with how she is coming along.
Brian has been doing the same as Brenda but with no poles and seems to be enjoying himself too.
This weekend is the busiest one we have had in a while, on Saturday I'm judging at Dog Vegas and Conor is bringing Chaos to socialise him and then on Sunday we are off to a Mali Training day at Jo's with Natalie and Jackie, will be good to have a catch up, ill try and remember a camera :)
