Feb 3-4th : Catoctin Kennel Club’s Obedience and Rally Trial Feb 9-10th: Lower Camden Kennel Club Obedience Trial Feb 17-18th: West Friendship Conformation Show Feb 21st: Herding in Berryville, VA Feb 24-25th: Setting up the Drive Clinic Feb 26th: Herding at Hog Dog in Maryland
I learned something working Chunky at this clinic… 1) I pushed a bit too fast to get her into the big arena 2) She is super good at arguing with me with a smile on her face. Ok, point 2 doesn’t exactly describe it quite right… BUT, we were struggling to roll shoulders out and … More Larry Painter Clinic in Berryville, VA – Chunky
So, for the first two days of the Larry Painter Clinic, I worked Fiddle in one working session a day for the first few days. Fiddle doesn’t really have the cover speed to cast out super wide to peel the running cows off the fence. We had to work on casting out REALLY WIDE to … More Larry Painter Clinic in Berryville, VA – Fiddle
After the Anita Ramsey clinic, we stayed another day for the Playing in the Pressure Clinic with Terri Chisman at the Isle of Calais. Counting for Day 3 of the 100 Day Challenge. Notes for Mandy: Must remember to get the dogs flanking the opposite direction if the flock mob the knees, and keep the … More Playing in the Pressure Clinic
Well, my goals for 2024 are set, and we are trying for the 100 Day Dog Training Challenge. Not all days will be documented on here. This is Day 2, as Fiddle and I worked Obedience at Tractor Supply on January 5th! Well, the first week of the New Year was marred with Monsoon like … More Anita Ramsey Trial Strategies Clinic
January 23, 2019 Today’s Participants: Fiddle and Uke Sometimes, things don’t quite go as planned… I love my little blue dog… but sometimes, she is SO CONVINCED she is right, that she forgets to listen! Hahaha…. Gotta love my little toddler. Anyways, we set four of these platforms in each corner of the room. At … More Day 11 – 100 Days of Dog Training – A… Not So Great Day
January 17th Today’s Participants: Fiddle and Uke It’s been a process for the poor little Blue Booper. She’s a dog that is a lot of fun to operate…. and she hasn’t been worked in an eternity. Our obedience trainer, Donna, was ready for the nervous ball of energy! Uke did some distance work, driving to … More Day 10 – 100 Days of Dog Training – Distance Foundations
Sometimes, it is nice to have a breakthrough… I have been lucky to have some amazing instructors and mentors who are always willing to talk to me about herding. My current instructor, Cathy Hartley at Bear Run Farm, has been working with me, sometimes dragging me through the same thing over and over again. I … More Day 8 and 9: Larry Painter Clinic – January 8th-9th
Date: December 19, 2019 Bear Run Farm Participants: Fiddle and Ukulele It has been awhile since I did a herding lesson, or a lesson of any sort. It has been a painful few weeks for me, with Black Friday and the end of the semester. The overall objective today was to get the entire … More Day 7 – 100 Days of Dog Training – Sheep Worming and Round Pen
11/26/2019 Today’s Lessons went to Fiddle and Uke After last weeks obedience disaster, I decided to reboot. One of the issues that my dogs happen to have in herding is that they “break contact” with the stock to look back at me. Part of this has to do with uncertainty toward the task at hand, … More Day 6 – 100 Days of Dog Training – Distance Foundations
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