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Welcome back! It is great to see you and Ripley – I have really enjoyed watching him go from “baby Ripley” in puppy stuff to grown up Ripley on podium!!! So fun! We will work on all of the things you mentioned – they are important independent skills and show up in the skills stuff and course work.
Have fun!
Tracy
PS – those photos are awesome!Welcome back to you and your two-sport superstars!!! I am looking forward to seeing their agility (and I will get you switched over to the active flyball class when I get home from this long road trip on Tuesday).
Have fun!
TracyWelcome! I am so glad you joined! I am looking forward to seeing more of Blitz – he is getting all grown up now! And yes… distance skills are DEFINITELY on our agenda.
Have fun! And fingers crossed for a dry, cool summer 🙂
Tracy
Welcome back! We can tweak a whole lot to fit into your 30×30. And lots of CAMPers in the past share ring rentals with friends (even if they are not CAMPers :)) to get the added distractions of other people and dogs 🙂
Looking forward to it!
TracyWelcome back to CAMP! It has been fun to watch Sly develop from baby pup to champion agility dog!
And yes, life is busy so you might not be able to do ALL the stuff but even doing parts of it can give you ideas for training and handling! Have fun!
Tracy
Welcome!!! I think the CAMP stuff will give both dogs a good workout 🙂 I am looking forward to seeing them!
Tracy
Welcome to you and Taq and Cricket! I love Taq of course, and I am looking forward to seeing Cricket too! And we can work on all of the skills you mentioned with the weaves & contacts.
>Also going to add 2o2o to my teeter.>
How much does she weigh? 2o2o works best with dogs in the 18-20 lb range and up… a 4on works best for smaller/lighter dogs. We can work on training it all during the summer, I love training the teeter 🙂
Have fun!
Tracy
Welcome back to CAMP!!! And congrats on all of your success so far this year. So fun!!!
>we’re re-tweaking/training the teeter as she’s starting to stop too early; all 12 weave poles are just a suggestion; serping a jump is only required if the momma isn’t trying to go anywhere else, otherwise we should just run with her. >
All of this is on the agenda for the class 🙂 They are all part of the super independent skills needed to run the crazy courses 🙂
>On top of this, we’re going to have a go at Team Canada tryouts in Aug, and she will have to jump 16″, not 12″. I would appreciate your thoughts on how we should get her used to jumping 16″.>
Super fun!!!! Have you tried any set point work at 14″? Or some of the jump grids (like the accordion from MaxPup) with the 3rd jump set at 14″? We can definitely look at raising the bars. Do you have a conditioning program for her? That will help a lot too.
Have fun!
TracyWelcome back! Sounds like they are both doing really well – I am looking forward to seeing them!
Tracy
Good morning! Welcome to you and the whole crew, it will be fun!!!
>He’s very experienced, but I feel like he still lacks a lot of the trained skills we need. Normally, a 9 year old dog should be on cruise control, but I have yet to reach that point with him. >
I think course design has evolved really quickly in the past few years, so the skills required have changed a lot! My 12 year old dog had a ton of skills before he retired… but he would need ahandful more to be successful on today’s course. So that is what we will look at: what skills he has, and what we need to add (and then add them :)) It will be fun!!!!
Tracy
