[Colleen Meacham]

Oh my gosh, that must have really hurt. That is the same product the orthopedic surgeon gave my husband for his surgery wound that wasn’t healing. My other Doberman is notorious for cutting her hocks chasing the critters, and then she licks them into wounds. And just sliced the top of her pad open and has staples. So the wound cream has been ordered. And I have some amazing cones that Dobermans can’t get their long noses around. My husband is the creative contractor, and we’ve extended them with pool noodles.

I think Rou should be good to go in a few days. We won’t be running off leash for a bit but some simple training should be ok.

[Colleen Meacham]

Just wanted to check in. Roulette tore a good chunk of her rear pad off out running. I’d imagine to will take a week or so to heal

[Colleen Meacham]

That was great feedback on the handling move. Thank you.

Oh now you have me thinking. I did this before with another dog and started just by having my husband eat the apple alone. We will give that a try.

Her pounces were cracking me up. I have my plank out working the older girl’s contacts so we did some plank play. I also tried the tight turn/head turn but I’m not sure if we did it right. We had fun tho.

[Colleen Meacham]

Ok, that makes sense for the get out cue. I don’t do much FAST, and I use my arm closest to the dog to send out laterally. It’s hard for me to move my arms across my body due to my neck issues. I’ve also used my outside arm for way too long for my mind to remember anything different. The move is similar to how I actually run my serps with an inside arm across my body. Is this similar to what we used to call a reverse flow pivot/false turn? It’s been over a year since I’ve been at a high level class or trial. I feel like I’ve forgotten what they are like.

I have no idea what to do for slice. She can play the game in new environments and around other dogs working or running agility, even with other dogs running in a big side by side pen. The only thing that might be a distraction would be my husband treating the other dogs but it doesn’t seem fair to ask that much of her yet. That would be a huge ask. He gives all of them pieces of apple and banana a few times a day. They take turns in front of him.

We did some perch pivot work and more stay work. I noticed when I ask her to sit I also lean forward and step with a foot. That’s not part of the cue! I was also really late with the sit cue

[Colleen Meacham]

Hi Tracy,

We took a few days to “be a dog” and enjoy the outside. I hate to say it because it’s snowing elsewhere but it’s been beautiful here.

The Youtube glitch worked itself out right away. I do have an iphone and it won’t load my thread. I think my thread is too long. I can only get on from my computer. Is it possible to start a new thread?

This is the error I get. “A problem repeatedly occurred on “https://agility-u.com/topic/colleen-and-roulette/

[Colleen Meacham]

Ok we’re finally getting around to training again. Here is some parallel path work and serpentine

I am still having difficulty doing any posting from my phone. I get an error and it won’t load the page regardless of what browser I use. I am able to post from my computer.

[Colleen Meacham]

I did get a youtube error but the videos showed up on my computer. When I try to get to the bottom of my homework on my phone, it says:

A problem repeatedly occurred on “https://agility-u.com/topic/colleen-and-roulette/

Rou did great with the toy races and bringing the toy back (although a tad slower which is to be expected).

This is as close as we are allowed to get to the ring and warm up dogs/train. She did pretty darn good with all the distractions.

[Colleen Meacham]

I’m getting weird error messages trying to post. Hopefully they resolve soon and I can share the videos

[Colleen Meacham]

She did great with the serpentines. I’ll try to get better video this week. Today we went to a new location for her to run CPE for my other girl. They have two beautiful enclosed areas. We worked on resilience attention games and blind crosses (video).
Not taped we worked on toy races, and bringing her toy back.

[Colleen Meacham]

We will work on the stays. My marker word for getting something behind her is free. I like catch but we also do conformation with a handler who uses catch to keep dogs engaged.

We did the serp work with jump uprights but all you could see in the video was my back. And then we did parallel path and I forgot a bar. She did well though and I tried to mark commitment.

[Colleen Meacham]

We finally have clear skies! We taped some wing wraps with directionals.
And oh my that was hard. We did some stay work also. Her excitement level in her body and eyeballs tells me she’s ready to leap off at a moment’s notice so I didn’t move around. This is also a new location for her for stays.

[Colleen Meacham]

Hoping the rain stops soon so we can get outside. This is as big as I can make this space.

[Colleen Meacham]

We had a half day workshop yesterday and ran off leash today. We did a short training session instead of taking the day off because we have a week or more of rain coming.

She did great with the toy out and using food. She was getting a little tired here so we did less reps on the second side. We also did the parallel path game first.

[Colleen Meacham]

I had a death grip on her collar 🙂 But thinking it through, if I get her to walk away and engage with me, she’ll send better! We will try that shortly.

Here is some of the resilience game moving with a bag of charlee bears. We also did this out front with food on my hand vs pocket and she did great. I’m still learning my new camera and it didn’t record that session

[Colleen Meacham]

We’ve been working with two toys quite a bit. Today we worked on SSC handling combos. Should we only do one direction at a time? We worked on left with a dish and a toy. We had to get really close to the wing to work the toy but she’s bringing it back to me! Progress

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