After a week of playing and doing some basic bits and pieces around the house, Thursday was a good training night under the lights at the NEC.
Ann came with Basco, Jojo brought Gunner and Katrina had Samson(pit).
I worked Aron on faster more accurate heeling, faster sits and downs, accurate positioning. It has been working really well when after a reward I go into the pressing green. It has calmed and strengthened his grips on the tugs or dumbells and made his outs much calmer. He did well on the long downs, near a group of people, in the middle of the the other dogs working. At the end of the second trip out I worked on Voraus for the first time in months. The first couple where at 15' then I went back to full length and longer and finished with Ann hanging the tug while I worked some heeling and after a couple minutes sending him for a straight fast send away.
Madison worked well. The combination of prong and food works wonders for her speed and attention.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Great Trip - Good to be Home
Well kids it wsa a great trip for 2 weeks of vacation. That hasnt happened in a long while.
My wife and I went to London for a couple days, then headed down to Hampshire for 3 days, up to Yorkshire for a wedding then flew to Dusseldorf for 5 days in Dortmund, and then back through London to Bermuda. Really good relaxing trip.
Club Class on BA with the lay flat seats.
5 Maddox St.
The Producers at Drury Lane Royal Theater.
The Spa at Chewton Glen.
Lesley & Howard, Simon
Walking to the top of Winchester Hill.
The crazy hotel in Wakefield with dried blood on the outside of the windows (from birds).
Victoria & Stuart's wedding
Driving the rental Range Rover with the integrated GPS and all sorts of neat features.
Germany - First time in a country that doesnt speak English.
Nadina and Burkhard very cool folks to hang out with.
Pedestrian Downtown Dortmund.
German Markets.
Dortmund Philharmonic at the Dortmund Koncerthaus
Germany vs USA World Cup Friendly at the Borussia Dortmund Stadium.
Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals, Museums.
Good to be home...
Some pictures from the game - 64,500 chanting Germans
My wife and I went to London for a couple days, then headed down to Hampshire for 3 days, up to Yorkshire for a wedding then flew to Dusseldorf for 5 days in Dortmund, and then back through London to Bermuda. Really good relaxing trip.
Club Class on BA with the lay flat seats.
5 Maddox St.
The Producers at Drury Lane Royal Theater.
The Spa at Chewton Glen.
Lesley & Howard, Simon
Walking to the top of Winchester Hill.
The crazy hotel in Wakefield with dried blood on the outside of the windows (from birds).
Victoria & Stuart's wedding
Driving the rental Range Rover with the integrated GPS and all sorts of neat features.
Germany - First time in a country that doesnt speak English.
Nadina and Burkhard very cool folks to hang out with.
Pedestrian Downtown Dortmund.
German Markets.
Dortmund Philharmonic at the Dortmund Koncerthaus
Germany vs USA World Cup Friendly at the Borussia Dortmund Stadium.
Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals, Museums.
Good to be home...
Some pictures from the game - 64,500 chanting Germans
Friday, March 10, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Protection
Afternoon at Port Royal School.
Jojo & Gunner, Ann & Basco, William & Kiara & Errol, Mike & Guiness.
Jermaine, Jojo and I all suited up and I started to get back into the swing of helper work after a long hiatus from my shoulder surgery. It was a good day but man do I feel fat and out of shape, blowing hard after one dog, so by the end of the session I was finished.
Madison worked well, she ran 2 blinds did a convincing bark & hold and held firm full grip through the drive.
With Aron we continued to work the switching from Prey(green) to hold & bark(grey) to the bite(green) with the excercises(green) and the out both into blue and grey. I also worked his heeling (active blue) on the field.
Jojo & Gunner, Ann & Basco, William & Kiara & Errol, Mike & Guiness.
Jermaine, Jojo and I all suited up and I started to get back into the swing of helper work after a long hiatus from my shoulder surgery. It was a good day but man do I feel fat and out of shape, blowing hard after one dog, so by the end of the session I was finished.
Madison worked well, she ran 2 blinds did a convincing bark & hold and held firm full grip through the drive.
With Aron we continued to work the switching from Prey(green) to hold & bark(grey) to the bite(green) with the excercises(green) and the out both into blue and grey. I also worked his heeling (active blue) on the field.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Obedience & Protection
Jojo brought Gunner and Ann brought Basco and Jermaine came by to the NEC.
We started out with obedience. Aron did some really nice fus work, we worked on his attention and heeling between the other dogs. Madison came out strong, she was really wound up and it translated into some good looking work.
Aron came out the second time ready for action, he pulled me onto the field and took a full grip from open, calmly held it standing, through the sit and the down, Jojo went back in the sleeve and the fight continued. The out on the ground was calm and fairly quick. We worked the hold and bark using Helmut's method. It helped to settle him into a good rythmn and keep him from jumping so high to bark down on the Jojo's head.
We started out with obedience. Aron did some really nice fus work, we worked on his attention and heeling between the other dogs. Madison came out strong, she was really wound up and it translated into some good looking work.
Aron came out the second time ready for action, he pulled me onto the field and took a full grip from open, calmly held it standing, through the sit and the down, Jojo went back in the sleeve and the fight continued. The out on the ground was calm and fairly quick. We worked the hold and bark using Helmut's method. It helped to settle him into a good rythmn and keep him from jumping so high to bark down on the Jojo's head.
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