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Works with adult dogs who've gone temporarily 'deaf', too. A friend di it with her UD-trained Golden one time - his face was an absolute picture

Thanks for posting this. It was good to watch.

Hey Pippi and Jess. - that's great Gotta say it feels nice to have that Masters done and ddusted - and Jess. - like me you've got one towards your 2 Good luck with the agility both of you.

You're probably already doing it, but get a start post of some kind (electric fence dropper.pigtail would be fine), and do lots of practice setting up at the post - take the trouble to go in via the rope and turn in so you (or rather Diesel) come straight onto the peg, and setting off from the post, rewarding him heavily for coming with you. Do it in as many different places as you can, and if you can get someone to work with you and act as judge - doing all the sort of spiel they do before hand as well. Can't suggest anything much for your nerves - a swift brandy, maybe..... And have fun, and celebrate whatever he does right.

Biker girl - no - won't be at New Norfolk - don't have an obedience dog now - my agility girl Kirra doesn't believe in Obedience , and my little big man Rory will be at his first 'big dog' show - showing in Puppy for the first time at Ranelagh. Cosmolo - that sounds fantastic. OK you've shamed me - I need todo more shaping with puppy Rory. Just have to put Kirra away while I do it - she always wants to push in Well done, Pippa - and jinkispirit - and TSD and LL.. Isn't it great to see the variety of things people are doing with their dogs - lucky dogs - lucky people.

I'd keep doing what you're doing - - except that I'd be inclined to use something like "uh-uh" instead of 'No". the "Uh-uh" becomes an interrupt to the behaviour you don't like, and signals that you're going to redirect the pup to something that's allowed. It sounds like splitting hairs, and in a way, I guess it is - it's just that the interrupt can ben very useful for all sorts of things later on. No - doesn't really give any information to the pup - although the way you're doing it, you are following up with that information but giving him an allowed chew. I usually play with the approved toy for a second, just to make sure the pup is engaged with that. And yes - it will work - be consistent. I would occasionally have to physically pick my pup up and place him somewhere where I could re-direct him, if I'd been a bit slow and his nipping had got a bit wound up. He's just over 6 months now - still occasionally thinks a trouser leg might be good - but responds immediately to the "Uh-uh" and takes himself off to something else. Lovely soft mouth now.

Way to go biker girl. Now that's what I call a big day out. FLovely scores for Seven - and first homebred title is very exciting.

Yep - my BC Fergus (:rolleyes: 23/19/09) was a soap eater. Didn't ever seem to do him any harm. Kirra has occasionally had a go, but current boy Rory doesn't seem interested - so I guess the soap could go back in the soap dish now. Now, the toilet brush set is a whole nother matter with Rory. there's always something ..

at the 4 in the morning. My Kirra is another who doesn't believe in 4.am Congrats on that nice result for Jazz, ML. And poor Logan - that must have been incredibly tiring. As you say - next time - and someone should get out with a mower . Can't believe you're talking tracking already. We're still having to worry about getting out into the paddocks - snakes are still active. But I must start some training soon with Kirra - who neds one more for TDX - and with baby Rory, to see what he can do.

Hey that's great, lp. Congrats to the beautiful Miss Kinta, nad best wishes to you too. Suppose that will be your excuse for not trialling for the next few weeks too - pretty darn good excuse, I'd say. :D

Yep - that's the sort of glags we use here in competition - fibreglass rods sharpened at one end, and with a couple of little holes drilled in the top end to string a flag onto. For training I just use an electric fence dropper as described

They don't call it Strategic Mayhem for nothing . But hey - sounds really good if you can rexcue a run that's going pear-shaped. Well done the Tollers. A little brag from Miss Kirra - a Masters Agility and a Masters Jumping Q today - and a couple of near misses - won't talk about the others. The MJ was a bit of a lazarus effort - revived from the dead a couple of times - but hey = at least we kept going, and she listened, and we got there in time.

Way to go Jess and mntgood. Well, Miss Kirra and I have a brag. We finished our Tasmanian Agility Bonanza today (2 weekends of double double - first weekend included Games.) Last weekend, Kirra finished her Novice Snooker Dog title, yesterday she got the last pass she needed For Masters Jumping, and today she got the last pass she needed for ADO2. Considering she got Masters Agility title in February - I think we can say we're having a good year - long may it continue. I think I'm keeping the Canine Association financial all by myself . I am trying to put into practice what we learnt at the Derrett seminar - can't say I've got it all down pat, but I'm sure it's helping.

Thanks Erny. Yes, exactly so. My vet knows me pretty well now, and thankfully is prepared to put up with my paranoia. I'll quite often start a consult with "I'm probably wasting your time, but ......)

Erny, I lost my 12 and half year old BC to IMHA in 2001. He had no symptoms, although a blood test earlier in the year, had showed rather low (but not anaemic) red cell count. In retrospect, I should have paid more attention to that, but since the dog ws aparently active and healthy, there seemed no need to worry. It would have been several months later that Sam, who had done a double UD trial apparently very happily on the Sunday, began to appear a little off on the Tuesday, then quite unwell on the Wednesday and very, very poorly on the Thursday - at which time his PCV had dropped to about 18 (should be 36). Vet diagnosed IMHA, but since the only treatment is very aggressive immune supression (or transfusion if available, followed by immune suppression, she wanted to get the diagnosis confirmed by a pathologist. Unfortunately, Sam died the next morning, with sever jaundice, and total organ failure. He had never had any h/w injection (in fact had not been treated with any h.w preventative. His last vaccination was 6 months earlier, so it appears that in his case the IMHA had no easily detected cause - couls have been a spleen tumour or something like that. I now pay attention and seek vet help if my dogs are off for now good reason, and if in doubt, would always get blood tests, and folow up any odd readings. That said, although I know of some dogs who have been successfully treated, it is reallyhard on the dogs, and I'm not sure what I would do if it ever happened again. Edited because I accidentally hit the send button too soon.

Agree with just letting him wander round the yard and play with a light lead just trailing behind him - I'd reward heavily for you putting his lead on, and then maybe put a nice treat - chicen wing - or a toy he really likes, a little way away, and then pick up his lead gently as he goes toward the 'good thing'. Rinse and repeat, gradually making the distance longer before he gets to his rewad. (Of course, be careful what you wish for - if he gets too good at the game, you could end up teaching him to pull. However, at this stage, that's probably the least of your worries. At 10 weeks, unless you're sure there's no parvo in your area, I wouldn't be taking him for a walk in the open streets (although do get him out and about as much as possible - I'd just be sticking to areas likely to be reasonably clean - maybe check with your vet to see whether there's been parvo in the area.

Hry, well done Reddii and everyone else. And hi to my little Rory man's half brother - Tag is Rory's dad. ;) And I have a brag - my little bitch Kirra finished her Masters Agility title ( thought it would never happen ) the first trial of the year. - and she's picked up another Open Agility pass - now 3.5 for ADO2. And my little Rory man has been showing nicely - thanks to his handler - got Baby Puppy in Group 5 this morning - his 3rd in 3 shows (missed it this afternoon, but still looked great (well, I thought so anyway!)

Trained my 2 BCs - aged 4 - for ET 3 years ago. My friend (also no longer young) and I had to remind ourselves how to ride first - on her flat driveway . Then we did pretty much what Vickie says - riding in a safe place with dog off lead (one at a time for my dogs), then when we were happy with that, one dog at a time on lead, and in my case, then graduated to 2 dogs at a time. They worked out that one would be slightly ahead of the other, and slightly off to the side. Eventually I worked out that one would be on a slightly longer lead, and one would have her tracking harness on. We didn't use an attachment, as for ET dogs have to be held with lead in hand on left side. They are allowed to run in harness or flat collar. The only time I fell off was towards the end of the ET - done in foul weather - when Fergus got so wet he had a huge shake - I had to fall off to the side to avoid him - luckily it was a controlled fall, no damage - and we finished the ET. (My friend's husband was riding Kirra for me. Oh - and no treats needed - or wanted, as it would tend to make them pay attention to me, rather than looking where they're going.

And in ANKC, if the dog enters incorrectly, it is a fault (therefore NQ at least. You have the option of correcting it, and if the dog enters correctly and weaves all 12 correctly, then you still only have 1 fault - although of course you may end up with time faults as well, depending how much extra time that takes. If dog has made a mistake any time through the weavers, and is not corrected, then it is a DQ.

If she's a "good doer", I'd be feeding quite a lot less, especially of a super premium food. My 7 year old agility girl is a light framed 490 dog, and is usually about 15 kg or a little lighter. She gets around 2/3 cup of Supercoat Junior is 2 meals and about 1 biscuit - very occasional bones or chicken wings - and abouit 1/3 cup of training treats - usually low-fat cheese and cabana or similar.

Oh, good - it's not just me then :rolleyes: . Unless mine arrives today - and I'm not sure if the postman has been or not.

If you have a good puppy pre-school at a vet clinic near you, it's probably worth trying to get her in now. They take pre-second vax pups, I think. IMO sometimes how much they bite and how hard can be influenced by how many other dogs they were raised with. My boy (5 months tomorrow) was raised with his litter mates, but also hsome aunties and a gran, who was apparently good at disciplining puppies :rolleyes: , so he came with good dog manners, and a reasonably soft bite - though he did like to use it a lot in the early days. Now he's teething big time, so if he's calm and quiet, he sometimes gets to hav a gentle chew on me - but it's now mouthing rather than chewing, and it's by invitation.

She looks a real sweetie - and sonds like a good puppy too. If you look down this forum, you'll see there have been at least a couple of threads dealing with biting problems that you can look at in addition to the Ian Dunbar site you've been referred to. In my experience, you need to be prepared to have a range of acceptable chew objects lying handy in every room of the house, so that you can do the interrupt/re-direct on to an acceptable chew item very quickly, wherever you are.

Thanks pf. It's been interesting - I've decided that I'm going to use trials at present to try to implement what I learned at the GD/LD 4 days in Melbourne - and if it works, great. So far, I'm fairly happy that this is a good strategy. I think my course analysis is getting better, although the implementation doesn't always live up to the planning.

Well done Kavik - all that work you've been putting in is really paying off. No stopping you now.