Doggie Dancing

Well guys I have an update on two of the doxies today! (: Chloe has been doing REALLY well with distance, including on her weaves! She's been learning some new tricks as well. I hope to be going and spending a week training a Miniature Aussie soon, though Chloe will be coming with me since she loves going to the farm. Vixy is doing a lot of confidence work too, I'm trying to get her to be more open with people and objects. Vixy has had a fear of basically everything for as long as I've had her - so we're using tricks to boost her confidence! She's learning to put her front feet on objects and turn for now, then next we're hoping to do drumming and roll over(: Anyway, happy holidays everyone!

Distance and Drive

So we've been working on a lot lately, we've moved our teeter to full height and we've got 2o2o pretty much down. We've also been working on serps as well as distance and focus. Chloe has come a long way in the past 8 or 9 months of training, but most of our break throughs have been within the last 3 months. We started out with our weaves, moving from 4 poles to 8, then adding jumps, then adding them into a small course. Afterwards we did a little more work on Chloe's drive, as she was always watching me and she needed to be looking towards the next obstacle. Serps have helped that a lot with that, since now she can do them with me standing by the first jump, now for more courses. Christmas is coming up soon and I hope to be building more jumps since I have 2 that are adjustable and 3 fixed (on which the bar can't be knocked and I don't like using.) I'm really proud of my girl, she's been doing so much better on focus within the past few weeks, although we still have moments when she runs around front on to the porch and I have to go and get her, she's gotten so much better with it. I can't believe she'll be 2 years old this coming May, which means we've been together for a year and a half, time flies when you're having fun I guess. I can't wait to see how far we go and the kind of adventures life takes us on!