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"Stick! I will have my way with you! You better recognize!"
"I'll get you, my pretties!"
"Long Pond State Forest with Monte, mom and dad - we saw a porcupine and mom wouldn't lemme chase it! (although I did chase turkeys, take that silly gobblers!)"
"The final product! Thank you so much, Kathryn Beals!"
"I am Mokie, hear me roar!"
"At school relaxing with Leila!"
"Like all bears, I enjoy fishing for spawning salmon in mountain streams!"
"Sticking my tongue out at you! BOL!"
"Monte and I running at the cabin in the Adirondacks! He runs pretty fast, but as you can see, I'm faster!"
Big Days:: July 4th, 2005: I was born on this date! August 27, 2005: Forever home! September 13, 2005: Dogster Debut! July 15 - 22, 2007: Fun Dawg of the week! March 25, 2008: 10,000 page views! April 14th, 2008: Dogster Diary of the Day!, August 2008: Graduated KPA with mom! April 10-17, 2009: Dogster Dog of the Week!
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Favorite Quotes: No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. - Mr. Miyagi * "We have to be, if we claim to be our dog's best friends, the kind of friend we would like for ourselves." - Suzanne Clothier
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey: DeepThoughtsByJackHandey.com
My titles: VGG = Very Good Girl, KPA = Karen Pryor Academy (I graduated with mom, she couldn't have done it without me!), RFD = Raw Fed Dog, HRH = Her Royal Highness
Winniethecorgi learns the ring toss!. Just when I thought she couldn't get any more fabulous, Winniw wows us yet again! You can view her video here.
Barkley Orville learns to freeze! Too cute with all those treats on his nose, I love this! View the video here.
Hamtaroplanet created an amazing home made agility set for her hamster and taught him to run it. Sophia's youtube video has received almost 100,000 views, have you seen it?
DancingCavy, future freestyle champion, submitted a video on training "go to place." This is one of the foundation behaviors at Clicking with Canines and I think it's such an important behavior for all dogs to learn, her training plan and video are posted here.
At Clicking with Canines, targeting is viewed as a foundation skill because it is useful in teaching so many behaviors. One of the many wonderful applications of targeting is the doors it opens to a trainer wanting to do distance work on behaviors. DiscdogShayne's entry this month focuses on just that topic. Here is her video, showing how to target train: Go to your mark, Scoot from a distance, Spin and other at a distance, Down at a distance (w/ no voice command), Sit at a distance to a stand (with hand and voice), Down on recall, and finally down at heel.
Two classes again today, Foundation class and then CGC.
Jack was at Foundation class again, I was so excited to see him! Unfortunately, the poor guy had a tick on his face. He was a little nervous about the extended close facial expression, but his dad pulled out some meatballs - problem solved!
She used this tick removal method, which works well when the tick is fully engorged and you happen not to have tweezers on you. So gross when she pulled it off and all the legs were moving around - blech! Jack felt much better and his dad Scott looked relieved when that was over.
New dogs at foundation class today. One of the new dogs, Mollie, is like my brother Ahab - she only has 3.5 legs too! She is also very, very scared but did a great job in class and started really coming out of her shell. She'll be a star in no time, without question!
Then I had CGC class. We worked on the grooming/examination part of the exam, the loose leash walking course, sit and down with duration, walking through a crowd, and began work on supervised separation. Everyone did a great job!
Not sure if I told you guys, but the first time I met Riley the Great Dane, I did NOT want to play with him. I remember thinking, "is this thing even a dog?!" The other dogs seemed to feel similarly, so Riley has not been able to play with everyone.
Today was the first day Riley got a chance at playing with the group. I had to stretch my neck up as far as it would go to sniff his butt, it's like three feet in the air! We didn't play very much, but he did really well and I think maybe next time I see him I will play with him.
Mom had two classes this evening, one was an advanced class and one was a foundation class.
Thorby, Leila and Sweet Pea were in the first class! Mom likes to keep her advanced students on their toes, so she decided to have them each pick a behavior from the foundation course and teach the attending students as though it was a class. We were also able to do some brain storming as a team on alternative ways to teach the behaviors, pros and cons of each method, etc.
We got to finish by playing tic-tac-toe! Leila and I were a team, we played against Sweet Pea and Thorby. My team won, but mom gave everyone prizes because she's nice like that (Merrick Cowboy Cookout sausages, yum!).
One of mom's Click to Calm clients was in his first Foundation class tonight, so she had two of the advanced students stick around and assist at the Foundation class in case the CtC dog needed a little extra TLC. There was also a new German Shepherd puppy named Maya, it was her first night of class. Sheenagh was there with her dad as well, turns out they are neighbors and friends with some of mom's former publishing colleagues, including one who brought us lots of venison during hunting season - small world!
Anyway, Foundation class was awesome! Jack the Australian Shepherd was the Click to Calm dog and his progress is amazing! (More on Jack later)
Maya the GSD puppy is a little smarty pants pie, and it is obvious her owners Misty and Russel have really been doing their work since orientation, her hand targets and name recognition were wonderful. As most puppies do, she struggled with the sit to greet exercise the first two times around, but then she was offering nice sits (without even being cued!) and waiting for pets like a good girl.
We all got to play at the end of class, which was a pleasant surprise. It was one of the best play groups ever! As per usual, I pretended the two new puppies I met did not exist in the least and ignored them in favor of Sweet Pea, Leila, Sheenagh, and...
Jack! *swoon* Jack is a 2 year old blue merle Australian Shepherd. Jack is such a gentleman, and so handsome! He is also a fluffy puppy like me! I think I am in love! I felt as though we were destined to herd sheep together.
He and I had lots of fun playing together, and he came closer than most dogs to catching me during the zoomie phase of play time.
Nodog's managed to catch me yet. Impressed as I was by Jack's good looks and charm, I was half tempted to handicap myself and let him catch me just for the fun of some wrestlin', but I knew he had far too much integrity to appreciate such a gesture.
Also, mom embarrassed me by talking pirate talk to Jack. The horrifying indignity of it all, it's almost hard for me to speak about it to you, my dogster friends. I managed to retain my composure, and shot her a quick glance which I am sure communicated my disdain for her intolerable social faux pas. Thank Dog one of us is able to contain ourselves around a handsome Aussie lad like Jack!
In spite of her ridiculous behavior, Jack's dad has decided to enroll him in regular classes at CWC starting tomorrow. Until we meet again (noon tomorrow), Gentleman Jack!
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