Warning agility may be a bad thing :)
And she has "agility for fun" for half an hour at the end of class. This is where dogs can learn each piece of equipment but they dont run a course or anything. Tiggy has mastered all of the equipment bar she is still nervous of the teeter, so we hold the teeter and lower it slowly for her. She doesnt really like jumps and she's not 18 months so they're still low. However be warned. I was staying up at my Mum's last night and left DH in charge of the dogs. Mmmm, he says he heard nothing all night. But he doesnt usually sleep all that well. According to his story (and it has changed from the short version on the phone this morning) he woke up this morning and the dogs werent in their beds. 
Where could they be??? 
Two VERY happy dogs sleeping up on the spare bed.  Tiggy jumped the baby gate to say hello to a favorite visitor the day before I left and now she has taught Rastus to jump it too.
Tiggy always goes straight to our bed when she gets the chance so why would she be sleeping on the spare bed when it one door further down the corridor. I suspect they did both sleep on the spare bed but something smells very fishy about the DH hearing nothing, seeing nothing, knowing nothing part of the story. I think I might come to regret teaching Tiggy jumps at class. |
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Get used to it . Sybil has never seen a gate she didn't want to jump. Have you trained the table yet? Just wait till you find them napping on your kitchen and (in Sybil's case) living room table. 
Keep going slowly with the teeter. It's an obstacled best taught starting low and slow. Pays off in the long run. I woke up at 4 this morning <  > I normally get up at five, so not THAT great a difference. But that still gave me time to bathe Belle and work with three of the dogs at least, including foster wench; two have classes tonight.
Wench is just a few months older than Tiggy, but old enough the height of jumps are no longer a concern (open growth plates - Tiggy's probably about there too, but, again, nothing wrong with taking it slowly) I have a panel jump set up on the "living room"/training room (my den serves as an actual living room) It's set at 20" right now and I'm working on teaching Liz, Che and Daphne proper jumping style. Liz and Che are no problem, but teaching the flea beetle to stay is a full time job. So it's sit, jump, cookie. Ask her to sit again so we can take it the other direction and it's jump-jump-jump-jump back and forth over the jump until she can finally settle and sit. I was getting seasick. Must reevaluate value of training dogs before breakfast.
So, what exciting "equipment" beyond baby gates and spare beds will you be offering them at home? 
Kristine |
Both my dogs jump over 24" and neither has ever jumped a baby gate - One thing I did learn (and I repeated it with the Newf - who face it can just walk through a baby gate) is not to put the securely in place, but just lean them. Then they may just accidentally fall and make a big noise and scare the little critters onto their sides of the gates 
Marley has been known to "practice" the dog walk using the back of the couch though  |
kerry wrote: One thing I did learn (and I repeated it with the Newf - who face it can just walk through a baby gate) is not to put the securely in place, but just lean them. Then they may just accidentally fall and make a big noise and scare the little critters onto their sides of the gates
That worked with Belle who was imprinted that way as a pup thanks to friends, but has not worked with the young bulldozers who could care less
If I put two baby gates up, one on top of the other, with the bottom one being up off the ground, Sybil will walk up and slam the top one till it drops and then jump the bottom one, clearing the top one where it fell Frankly, with her I'm better off not putting a baby gate up at all since she seems to take them as a personal challenge.
Kristine |
^^^ sounds like Cedric. Bam!!!! - oh fun I love that noise  |
kerry wrote: ^^^ sounds like Cedric. Bam!!!! - oh fun I love that noise
Well, this doesn't apply to Cedric I presume, but they get rewarded a lot for slamming the teeter, so I suppose in Sybil's convoluted mind it all ties together
Any way you cut it, Mim's right - there are unintended & interesting consequences when working a dog in agility. The back of the sofa, eh?
Kristine |
Mad Dog wrote: The back of the sofa, eh? Kristine ever since she was a puppy - she may be part cat. |
| Yes she likes the table! At this early stage there's still lots of treats being handed out so she'll wait very patiently on the table, watching me intently and occasionally licking her lips. I hadnt thought about the tables at home
So far she only walks her back legs along the sofa seat with her front legs up on the back. One sofa is in the middle of the room so when we walk behind it she can get up close and personal when she's really excited. Seeing as both sofas are chesterfields with nice flat tops to the back its probably only a matter of time, as she's getting to quite like the walk.
She's already sent the baby gate flying out of the door frame, she did a cat jump the first time and balanced on top of it. The noise (gate clattering, me swearing) didnt bother her at all. Just meant that she cleared it properly the next attempt. |
| Must be a sheepie chick thing baby gates and getting over them. Babs has cleared ours a few time, the first time the look on her face was stuned, geez how did I do that
Syd is a hell of a lot bigger but still cant work out how to get over it, he could just about step over the baby gate, he hangs over it, back legs doing step step on the floor like he is trying to climb an invisable ladder, such a doofus.
Thank goodness he has not worked it out, babs is in heat and in with mom and he is confined to the bachelor quarters, lets hope the lump does not learn from his bouncy sister how to escape the baby gate confinement.  No incest happening that close in this shaggy mob. |
| Awww, poor Syd. Is he lonely??? |
| Yeah not impressed ma seperated him, might have to have a play date with Tiggy in the next week or so.
He just peed inside around where babs was laying down this afternoon after babs was put away and he was let out of Bachelor confinement , first time for that a pee pee inside OH JOY OH JOY(NOT) , gonna be wild kingdom around here over the next few weeks, might have to get hubby to take him to the farm next weekend. Mim we need a vino session soon for my sanity 
WAS so much easier when it was only sheepie girls ruling the roost. Last time mom was in we had 3 nights of Oooohrooos and not eating, the joys of an entire male in amongst temptation & wonderfull snoofy smells on the floor & in the air
Booking into the funny farm might need it real soon!!!!! |
Syd come come to Brunswick and Tiggy will take you to her favorite fenced in oval (mine too it has no burrs) for lots of running and silliness, so that you can work of all that bachelor boy energy. 
Vino session for the uprights.  |
| I inadvertantly created a steeplechase jump. The oversized chair has a matching ottoman that is also oversized and takes up too much room in the "sitting area." Since the chair has become MO's throne I decided to move the ottoman behind the chair. Silly me. In her jumping years she found the arrangement perfect.....run and jump onto the ottoman, over the chair back onto the seat and then the floor. Turn around immediately and reverse course.
Now as she ages, she uses the ottoman as her #2 day bed. #1 day bed is my bed and #1 night bed is with DH. Of course her throne is for watching TV. |
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