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I thought it was time to work on some more self control with the Baz. So here we are doing the cone wrap thing https://youtu.be/SiZnpifpJVY
> Are those ear buds what are giving you the great sound on these videos?
yeah just telling my phone to pick up sound from my ear buds alone.> He did well recovering from it and the last wrap was his best one!
I was super proud of him. He was quite distracted.In other news, Edith has been cleared to start strengthening work for agility. woo hoo. (she’s had something going on with her back) Now I gotta plan her first show back. So excited!\
We’ve got another weather warning for tomorrow… so we might be back inside.
> (you should try flyball with him!)
We don’t have flyball, we have flygility, with insane turns, weaves, and low contacts. but the boxes aren’t like your boxes. There’s a pedal, that releases an arm that flings the ball up in the air. A million years ago I tried flygilty with Polly. I did see someone had taught their dog to spin, hit the box with their back feet, then catch the flung ball. I just worry flygility is not great for dogs’ bodies. Just in the last year we’ve started hoopers as a code in NZ. But it’s still more “agility with barrels and hoops” than the hoopers I see overseas. It’s distance work that i’m keen on achieving with Barry, cos I’m not built for speed haha.Tried the send and go on the other arm (had my ear buds in so you get less wind noise. lolz)
About half way through the nextdoor neighbour dog starts barking (it was pretty loud – that’s less obvious with the ear buds supplying the sound). So I stopped and just did some tugging cos baby Baz was a little worried. Then he recovered. Clever boy!Wooo threadle wraps. I did a few sessions of turning away from me AGES ago, and bless him he remembered.
I tried to do it on the painted line to stay straight… let’s just say I don’t hold much hope for when I try to walk in a straight line for the outs, bahhahahah
after outs, we got out the rubbish bin (with a sandbag in it) and tried to figure out where we were at with Send n Go – i just did one direction – i’ll do the other one tomorrow.
Curse his getting confident getting on planks, he jumped up on my see saw which he hasn’t done before (thankfully the bottom half so it didn’t move!) – that’s why i say break at the start of this video – I’m going to have to wedge that thing before i train again because i don’t want surprise seesaw training!
At 1.30 ish baby checks out, I think i didn’t pay him enough when he did some problem solving, so I did a couple of easy hand targets when he came back.
After contact box we did outs. On review of the video, i see my feet were in the wrong position, but overall my mechanics are getting better, and on one rep Babby Baz very decidedly changed lead to hit the target so I’m super happy with the baby!
Woo Hoo We’re into the long weekend and the forecast is …. (checks internet) decidedly meh.
Here we are working on the contact box for the first time outside. (haven’t done the mat outside lately for obvious wind related reasons) Tomorrow’s supposed to be ok, so I’ll take it to club!
I used cheese to help him see the treat in the grass, didn’t help much. haha. (stupid long spring grass)
Running contact practice. I think he is uncomfortable going towards the crate with the purple blanket on it (to the left of the video) because there’s a franken-monster in there that loses it sometimes. I tried to throw away from the crate.
At 1.34 ish the pathetic keening of the Weedith can be heard.there are reports of portaloos doing acrobatics! From the FB posts, the worst part was actually getting there! Thankfully the wild weather is set to ease, so hopefully the rest of the show goes off without a hitch. Last year we had to finish a day early! Mud up to eyeballs we had to vacate the grounds a day early. We kept running the courses til we lost the light then packed up our gear. We took it back to the club, finished unpacking after 10pm. Stupid time of year for a national event. haha
This is a graphic that goes around this time of year:
https://adam.nz/slides/ihha0w3fjuho8kw/0> moving the line on the ground around the barrel bit by bit
You’re very patient – i’m now recalling that was in the video.> OK that sounds crazy!! We only have 40mph winds here so I will stop complaining now LOL!!
This weekend is the big national agility competition, but there’s been blown over caravans, fires, and general havoc on the road South. Terrible time of year to hold a massive outdoor event.Here we are doing send and go again. We won’t be doing anything outside tomorrow… it’s a severe weather warning… winds gusting up to 140kmh (87mph according to Google). I need to hold off on the weightshift a teeny bit longer but he’s so good.
> if you use the sit, be sure to use a release word separately from the hand movement (not simultaneous at all) so the release stays clean.
I’ve been meaning to ask about this. I’ve notice I have a tendency to not consistently release from the sit. I use “wait” with my other guys to mean stay there until i release you (rather than just the sit/down) cue by itself. I can see a sense in sit always meaning stay til i release you, i just don’t know if *I* have the rigour to always use it like that.
Should I try harder? or use the wait cue? (Edith uses “wait” as a hold your position – e.g. if she’s in a stand, she stays in a stand til i release her – sometimes she can’t sit on the startline so I just use wait to get my leadout)
