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Today was another rough day for doing videos as Kristen spent the day at a CPE Agility trial and I am judging an AKC trial. Devyn had a good day at agility doing some more tugging as training in the ring.   MeiLi is on the road hanging out with Dad while he judges followed by the drive home. But Kristen did take a few minutes to work some crate games when we got home. MeiLi

Today was a rough day for doing videos as Kristen spent the day at a CPE Agility trial and I am judging an AKC trial. Devyn had a good day at agility doing some tug training in the ring.  She was able to tug with her toy in the ring. MeiLi is on the road hanging out with Dad while he judges. MeiLi doing some basic RZ zone work in our hotel room.  Devyn doing

Today was a rough day for doing videos as we spent the day at a CPE SpeedWay trial. Devyn had a good day there training in the ring.  She was able to tug with her toy in the ring and got to have some fun with that. MeiLi was good outside the ring…….inside not so much.  MeiLi and I are away at a hotel, so we did some start line work and fun stuff in

MeiLi was very excited to do some equipment. This is one of the first times I have done either dog at 16″. I need to remember she is a baby dog and has a bigger stride. I need to reward her turns even when they seem obvious to me.   Devyn did very well with this. She was having some issues with doing the tunnel earlier in the day, so I made the choice to do

Today’s TrickAgility exercise are both new exercises for the pups. We will be doing Cookie in the corner Recalls and Moving RZ 360 Spin Reward. Cookie in The Corner Recalls works several skills. Sends to “get it” followed by a recall to the RZ.  The Moving RZ 360 Spin Reward focusing on teaching the dog to find the RZ while you are moving and to offer a sit in the new position, then remain in

Today’s TrickAgility exercise is the Hand Touch. we use this for so much in dog sports and daily live. It is such a useful tool. In addition, MeiLi had a 3-mile walk today. On that walk she got to play a bit in an empty dog park and hike on the local trail. We are learning so new mechanics for the hand touch game. Tonight, Kristen worked both dogs, we did do some of this

Today’s we start a new game designed to help with focus, quick sits, and some self-control at the start line. We are training the Tug-Sit-Run game. We will also continue that self-control focus with some Crate games This is our first day working this exercise as a formal exercise. But MeiLi loves to tug and has a great release of the toy. She gets a little confused offering the crate, but I was thrilled on

Today’s TrickAgility focus was working on building the Reinforcement Zone (RZ) by my side. The idea is that the pups will want to work by our side – either walking on leashes or when they do agility. Here’s quick clips of my working outside with each dog. I suspect this is something we will continue to work on. This is one of the most important skills for dog sports as the dog tends to be

Much of today was spent taking the pups on an adventure. We took a ride down to an AKC Agility trial at Dream Park in Swedesboro, Nj. We did not go in but spent some time walking around outside. Then we took a drive to the nearby dog park. It was empty with today’s rain so both pups got to go in and run around together. MeiLi training her start line from the crate. This

MeiLi really loves to play with her weaves poles. It is still a work in progress building speed, offside and tougher entries. But she loves trying.  It’s your choice is a foundation game in Recallers.  We use it in lots of things. In this exercise we are working our set up for agility and a release for her to come to me. I have an open hand of treats that she chooses not to try

This will be our version of Trickvent for this year. We will be focusing on agility skills and Recallers games with the two pups. Some days we will post both an agility skill and a Recallers game. It will all depend on the amount of time we have, and weather permit it. Hoping we can pull this off on the trial weekends. Happy Holidays to everyone.  MeiLi is a little less excited about the teeter