Ptolomy

Wednesday are a real social outing - we meet late afternoon for obedience - then at 6pm we pack up and head to Dome for dinner and then back to K9 at 7pm to help set up for agility or some more obedience This is what training should be like ;)

So they are still a hit then????

LOL no it just seems that way Mondays is obedience and yes we do train together Tuesday is agility night for others but we are doing obedience at the moment Wednesdays is obedience/agility and yes we do train together Thursday and Friday are W or C night (Wine or Cider)

All sweet potato is given raw and so is the pumpkin

We always have start posts in WA and yes we always use them in training, it may not be a pole that we use though - last night it was a red food bowl turned upside down.

Well done you should be thrilled - but sounds like you need to start playing the steady feet game

Pumpkin, ham, lots of goat, chicken, yoghurt and yep buckets of cheese and sweet potato

Try again in a couple of days time in a different spot. I tried Cider at 7 months of age and there were no lights on and nobody was home - so I left it for 2 months before I tried again. I did start by scenting the metal with food.

In case I forget when we are together on Sunday. Beans is allergic to lots and lots of foods - so need to keep the esky lids on and not let her hijack Ruby's treats.

Yeh I figured as short as possible, it's just at this stage it sometimes takes quite a few seconds for Ella to lock onto a glove and I'm not going to send her before she's looking at the right one. I was just curious as to how long would be acceptable so I can aim for a certain length! Ok another question, has anyone got any good methods/articles on teaching the seek back. I tried teaching it as a game and Ella definitely does look and sniff for it but I really want her to follow my track a bit closer to help her find it faster as sometimes she spends several very very long minutes searching for it. At the moment I send her and she sort of runs all over the place partially air scenting and partially with her nose on the ground. However I don't think she fully understands how to follow the track as she seems to follow it for a bit and then heads off in a random direction. On top of that she will often go off searching a very long way from where we've previously walked looking for it. I'm looking a bit into how people train dogs to track and trying to adapt that a bit but thought some of you guys might have some good ideas. Seita how did you originally teach Ella seekback. Just a side note - when I first put UD together for Beans I would send her to find her seekback and she would head in totally the opposite direction that I had come, looking in areas that I hadn't even walked - eventually she would end up back at the start post and find the article - I went back to baby seekbacks - so would often face the star post area - and then the penny dropped. To increase the speed after she had picked the article up I would click and take off running away from her and she would coming running after me at the rate of knots - it didn't take long to improve her speed.

That makes two of us!! Ahsoka has decided that the article I want her to bring me is the UN-scented article of the two!! Tonight she sniffed them both and then quite decisively picked up the non-scented article. Three times in a row! Terranik - are you using the same heavily scented article and when Ahsoka brings back the wrong one are you replacing that with a clean new one? Have you tried putting the articles really close together say 10cm?

can anyone help me? I had this discussion with the guru during the week as my beautiful gloves exercise has gone pearshaped What has happend is I about turn and he now starts scanning all 3 gloves - I give direction and his eyes are still going from 1 to 2 to 3 and back again and then he will lock on and I see a slight movement forward of the top half of his body - then I send. The question was how long can I stand there giving direction...... We decided that I had 2 choices - if I decided to stand up and regive the direction - thats a zero. If I kept my hand down giving direction - the judge could either say - send your dog AGAIN - or after I send she could deduct heavily for taking too long/extended signal - either one is a bummer :D Before all this went haywire - my signals would have been probably 2-3 second long.

Fordogs - I don't have any large or mediums left - so i suggest you head to the new thread and jump on the bandwagon and place an order there

I have to be honest and say that I don't care if Cider watches where I put the article - the fact that she sniffs the other articles indicates to me that she understands the game. I still have to teach leather - so I will look at doing this in the next couple of days - I did send her for a leather article last night - she did bring the correct one back but it was pretty ugly. This morning I started working separately on about turns - so this is with a view to scent and glove turns.

Squeaks will be delivered to me and then I will then post them to individuals or if you want to save on postage a group of squeaks to a central location or for people in SA you can contact me and can pick them up. For postage around Australia a 500g postage bag costs $5.70 and with a medium i-Squeak weighing less than 30 grams I should be able to fit a fair few in each bag. 3kg bag is $9.90. [Yes I have stolen some of Ptolomy's posts ] I will put names and order numbers in the 2nd post Balls ended up being: Small $4.50 Medium $5.50 Large $5.50 this is $Oz where I think the prices on the website are US$ You will need to be careful with the postage as some of the packets weighed more than 500g (the large balls were much heavier than the small ones) - so I just paid the extra. Because of the number of balls ordered Clean Run did give us 10% discount on the price of the balls - so when you have got the final orders I suggest you email Clean Run and see what they can do for you - I was dealing with Pam. Good luck

Ermm MM have you seen my videos??? My handling is appalling! Bad handling is no excuse not to post videos :D Lol if you think your handling is bad you would faint if you saw mine, I think your video's are quite good actually Mason's mum I have just the cure for your bad handling "Bedazzled where are you" - hmm what did you call it last night Caffy - blunt and to the point???? Happy to pick on you any time ;)

Not bad for a baby and I think she did really well to not bring me back a leather

It sounds like you are doing a terrific job huski and you seem to be enjoying training at the moment as well - which is great news. I love watching the kids learn new things I am just uploading videos of Ciderbear at K9 tonight doing scent for the first time. This dog only started learning scent just over a week ago and tonight I took it to a different venue for the first time and then because I was using the set for the UD kids - I forgot and left the leathers down (Cider is yet to even see a leather article). Its a work in progress

LOL Ptolomy! So funny you should say that, I went to 3-4 articles tonight just to see how she'd go! She was reliably picking up the right article when there were just two so I decided to make it a bit more difficult to test her. She made a couple more mistakes when I added more articles but by the end she was sniffing them and bringing back the right one. Am sure it is no where near reliable yet though, can't wait for tomorrow's training session! Its when there are about 4 articles on the ground that the dogs suddenly realises and starts checking the other ones out rather than bringing back the first one they come to. This time with Cider I made sure all the articles were fairly close together where in the past I had them the distance the website recommended which from memory was quite wide.

You know the rule is that if you video a training session you have to share! Daisy did a couple of nice formal retrieves at training tonight Just have to work on getting her to come in closer when she returns. When we came home we did some SD work, she was VERY enthusiastically retrieving the metal article and has started sniffing them and picked up the right one most of the time. Will keep going tomorrow and will see if it is starting to sink in. Huski - from experience, don't stay on just 2 articles for very long - it helps them learn that there is a right and wrong article.

Blue is not the favourite in my house - Green for medium ones and red for small ones are the preferred options.

Huski - as you know I have just started teaching Cider scent. To begin with I use the same article for all our training sessions - so it gets kept separate to all the rest - this way it is very heavily scented and seems to help with the learning phase of bringing back the one that smells of me. I will keep using this same heavily scented articles for the next couple of weeks.

What a great start tothe year Biker Girl and your first UD pass - well done

Gees Huski a lot of people would give their eye teeth to have a dog picking up metal so enthusiastically after 3 sessions - well done

Of all the days it decided to rain - it had to be today. Well done Xena98 on 2 great days of trialling and hopefully Gabby's foot will heal quickly.