Wallace Payne Seminar

Well it has been a busy, fun and educational weekend. The level of training was very high and attendence was at an all time high.

Wallace and Rhonda did an amazing job of working through all the dogs and handlers of all levels. The emphasis was firmly placed on first setting the goal towards which you are training, then tailor the methods to best fit these goals, the dog's drives, the handler's ability and experience.

Aron made progress in leaps and bounds. His tracking tightened up as my handling was fixed. The obedience improved as I changed my approach to attention and focus work, and we laid out a way forward to proceed with his protection work.

All told it was a great time and was throughly enjoyed by all attending.

Protection

It was a good day up at Port Royal School. Ann brought Basco, Jojo had Nero, Jermaine had both Capone and his new female, and Margaret brought out both Jetta and Riggs.

Obedience

Thursday night obedience was short and sweet this week. Ann brought Basco and we worked the dogs before it got dark.

I focused on attention and focus, as well as quick sits and downs.

Congratulations Wallace Payne - 3rd at Worlds

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Friedrich Biehler Caro v. Mörfelder Land

Country : Germany 1.
A 95 - B 96 - C 94 - TOT 285

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Pierre Wahlström Ängsbacken's Rosso

Country : Sweden 2.
A 90 - B 96 - C 97 - TOT 283

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Wallace Payne Merlin v. Conneforde

Country : United States of America 3.
A 94 - B 90 - C 98 - TOT 282

Obedience

It was a quick and fairly quiet Thursday evening.

Ann brought Basco and I worked both Aron & Madison. Simple heeling, clicker aclimatisation etc...

One of these days some of the other members will start to train again....

Missing Entries

I missed a couple sessions so here's some catch up.

A couple good Thursday sessions with Ann and I at Vesey St. Simple obed work, rerieve heeling etc etc.

Last Sat we had a short session at Port Royal School as I left for the Construction Assoc of Bermuda Summer BBQ and I had to dig out early yet again this week for the Institude of Bermuda Architects BBQ. Both good events. Its been real good to see Kirista, our youngest member, training consistenly with her dobe pup.

We had some good tracking both last Sunday and this morning. Ann, Kay and I all ran tracks this morning at Southside.

Board meeting coming up this Tuesday, couple items to \put to bed and off we go fo some good training, seminars and progress.