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Got mine! What a boo boo. The other photo is meant to be of the CD winner. Candice, no Mason's CCD isn't in there, it will be in the next one. Ruby's JD is in there and she got that in April

You get the K9 mag if you're a DogsWest member. Otherwise I think you can purchase a subscription separately.

Agree with woodbyne even though I don't have kids, I think same principles apply I don't have a problem with kids at trials as long as they don't distract competitors and the dogs. I remember at one agility trial there were some kids kicking a footy around in between the rings. There was no parent in sight. A judge came along and confiscated their footy and told them to tell their parents to come see her if they wanted the footy back It was hilarious!! The kids were saying the parents had left to go Hungry Jacks and left them there

Oh no, I look terrible Wish it was just the dog required for photos! Hope my copy has arrived Please don't tell me the photo with the big wet patch on my leg made it in there? I spilt coffee on me then had to wash it down and it didn't dry in time FAIL!!

ooh ooh me want! I'll check the mailbox soon yippeeeeeeee!! Is the Obedience Challenge stuff in this issue?

I agree with showdog in that you should try and pick a name where you can work his pet name into his registered name somehow. I've even got the registered name picked out for my next pup that is who knows when away

I wouldn't be too keen on shouting out "Fanny, come!!" at the park I like Fletcher but it sounds too similar to Fetch! Gotta ask showdog, your signature says the following: Image removed by Troy ... overly distracting. Please see signature guidelines What was so distracting about a signature you once had that made Troy remove it?

Both!

I won't be blase about a CDX if/when that comes my way, let me assure you!!! Or a retrieving related one :p Hey Tassie Got the CDX title on Sunday and submitted the title application first thing Monday :rofl: Only took me a couple of weeks to submit the AD! :p

Thanks for the explanation, Seita!

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How about Franny? Fergie? Fern? Flick?

Thanks for the heads up! Watching it now and it looks interesting. Not good for puppy cluckiness though - did you just see the puppies they had on?!

Great site!! But it may add to the confusion for some with so many to choose from

I find it hard to think of boy dog names so won't be much help to you Candice!

You're our Rally Rep!! Get it out there

Names are so hard to decide on for yourself, would be doubly hard when there are 2 of you to please! How about Marco or Polo?

Well what is it and we'll help you decide!

Seita's method doesn't involve any heelwork, but what was the reason for you not wanting to teach her to track? (sorry I only briefly read through the last few pages - lots to catch up on!) It's not that I don't want to teach her to track, I do, I just don't want her walking with me (heelwork or not heelwork). If she's walking with me, she might think it's a new level of sloppy heelwork I would accept in this exercise I want to keep it informal. I am not knocking Seita's method, I just want to try some of the other suggestions first as I feel they would fit me better at the current stage For the record, I am not having trouble teaching a seekback so far, it's definitely clicking for them what I want and I wasn't technically asking for ideas on how to teach it (at this stage ) My original question was just to see if I could muck around with it without doing the heeling part of the exercise without stuffing it up Hope that makes sense and doesn't offend!

If you're doing a whole bunch of training and then only rewarding at the end, this could be considered lumping. Not only could it be confusing him about what his exact criteria is because you're not marking and rewarding the good bits, but his work ethic may go down if he knows he has to do a whole bunch of stuff without reward before he's ready for that step. As Tassie suggested below, I'd do things in small doses each time and reward in between. Then start again. Only reward what you're happy with. If he's mugging you, he doesn't get rewarded! Ptolomy has done some of this with Strauss. I've tried it with my girls to encourage prancy heelwork, but I gave up as quickly as I started

My vet wont be happy if i just do nOthing as Ellenbrook is a huge parvo area Yep sorry I understand that, I should have phrased the first bit better. What I meant was, is titre testing a 16 week old going to give accurate results based on levels of maternal antibodies that may or may not still be around, and other factors. Genuine question, not trying to say one way or the other is better, just curious if anyone knows

Is titre testing at 16 weeks really needed and give accurate results? Sounds like a lot of us have just gone the 12 week one, waited 10 days, then declared our dogs good to go

Only wish the fact that you are getting judged in the ring wouldn't change the fun factor for me!

What do you normally use as a reward? It doesn't always have to be food, it can be anything he finds rewarding (but being a Lab, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say food rewards would be on the top of his wants list!!) Remember that we wouldn't work for free so we can't expect our dogs to, either. I know what you mean about crazy around food, though. Millie just cannot function if she can see a jackpot or her dinner bowl or her squeaky ball. Her mind is so focused on it that she just can't operate. She works well when she doesn't see food or for mundane treats but I will never stop rewarding her. If I did she would soon tell me to f off! Ruby puts in more effort if she can see her reward but we are working on that ;)

Well I went out and did some UD training tonight at K9 :D Had a great time