Today MeiLi had another solid class with Betsi Hartman. She continues to grow as a teammate and overcome her other mental focus issues. This week we got three runs. One was working on a Serpentine, followed by a threadle back to the beginning and then a sprint around the world and back to the front of the ring. The real course was a play of off the Senior league course from last week. It did […]
MEILI ONGOING CLASS TRAINING JULY 11, 2023 Read More »
MeiLi and Kristen played league again today. They had a lot of fun with it. I wish I could have gone but it was not to be. Here are the videos of their runs.
MEILI & KRISTEN LEAGUE JULY 4, 2023 Read More »
Today was our regular weekly class training. It was a fun course with a few handler options along the way. MeiLi struggled a bit with one turn the first run but was a pretty good pup overall. I like the progress on commitment to obstacles. She struggled a bit with the weaves on the last run but I think that was just thinking through the upcoming challenge on the course.
MEILI CLASS 6-67-23 Read More »
This was my time to play the senior league version of this week’s course. This was so much fun and MeiLi was on FIRE from the start. I enjoyed getting to try some various handling and learning what worked for the blue dog.
MEILI CLASS 6-20-23 SENIOR LEAGUE COURSE Read More »
Another great day for league with MeiLi and Kristen. It is really great seeing this two learning to run together and become a solid team. I am very excited to see MeiLi working through the tough parts of the course and being excited to offer Kristen behaviors to try to please. That focus on the handler is so important for this pup.
MEILI & KRISTEN LEAGUE 6-17-23 Read More »
This was a super tough course that Betsi gave us to run this week. We were certainly testing our skills as a team. I was thrilled to get a nice lead out from the table, a piece of equipment, we train very little. She was responsive to my cues, and handling and I am very proud of the results during this class.
MEILI CLASS 6-13-2023 A TOUGH COURSE Read More »
Today I judged league for the club and so I got to run MeiLi for a change. It was a lot of fun and I wish I could continue to do so. But it is not to be. She was super happy to have me there to run her on this day. It has been fun judging some of the league days and I am sad that this is the last time I will be
MEILI & DARRYL LEAGUE 6-10-23 Read More »
Well not all training sessions will go the way you want. On this day I was not in a great frame of mind to start class. But we did show up. MeiLi could feel I was a bit stressed, and it showed in her work. She struggled with things she is normally pretty comfortable with like the teeter. Oh well I am glad we went and I felt better leaving than I did when I
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Today we had a rough start to class but once she got going, she did very well. The start line frustration needs to be worked through as she is going to be very fast. I want to teach her all the skills we will need for me to run her years from now when I am going to be much older.
MEILI CLASS 5-30-23 Read More »
Trying to learn some more difficult weave pole entries. This should help us at trials with MeiLi being able to go out and find the weaves and also learning to control her body to collect for entries.
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The first run started out rough, but I was extremely happy with the weave pole entry since that has been our focus at home. I tried using a toy on the second run. I am not so sure that helped her focus at all. Once she got past the start line issues it went fairly well. I ended the run early while I had her head. It was a good learning experience for me.
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MeiLi struggled with the weaves as the gates were nearby and I was trying to work on a rear cross entry. It took a while be she finally got it. The rest of the first run was very nice. The second I did a blind cross entry and while not clean it was better. I think we know what our homework is for the next few weeks. We did get a short turn after the
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Today was a good day for MeiLi. The first run went very well other than my attempt at a rear cross weave entry. The handling on the second run made more sense for her. There were treats all around the arena that caused us some focus issues.
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