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I guess using stay/wait as gives the dog some estimate of the time I am requiring it to do what I've asked too I also agree with Mrs D, on the only other way the beginner dogs know whether or not to come with us would be which foot we take off on, which wouldn't really be fair on the dog

Been popping any puppies lately Gotta?

Cool I'll keep an eye out for you, I'm there most wednesdays!

I feed half a tin of sardines every day to 2 days plus the fish oil

Yeah we do! Will see you there Do you do class or just run throughs? What breed do you have? I will probably know you when I see you lol

Yeah and the judges just make fun of me!

Awesome! He looked great this afternoon, you have every right to brag! lol I'm using you as my motivation :D When's the lead burning?

i freeze all my barf mix and frames in single day lots once a month, and i take them out 2 days at a time to put in the fridge Mine also love frozen meat But then they love all food no matter what Oh except for olives as I found out! I dropped a pitted kalamata and Ed picked it up, chewed once then spat it out!

Well done! You would have been pleased in general, and its your first one over with now!

Great that you are getting there and that your neice is going to join too!

I know how you feel with the mouthing, Molly was the same, slowly slowly she is getting better with it When in Vic are you? Will you be joining an obed club?

Yep I love the clicker too!!!! It's fantastic!!!

Thats what you want though, you want her to only want the tug, and in time she will learn to do the other stuff to get to her tug, it's very very early days, stop worrying! With the tugs, most flyball people have the tugs that are only ever used at flyball, to get the dog extra excited about it, so that they do the run fast to get back to it

Yeah for sure!!! That would be great, and we'd finally get to meet! lol There are gates at the start that the dog has to come though, and they bring the ball back to you, Minx will learn to bring it back to you before she gets to tug At the start all the trianing is all broken up into little parts, so don't worry too much about it yet

Oh cool, we are at Berwick Obedience, but I only do flyball there, I go to 2 other clubs for obed (just cos I was already at them lol) If I wanted to I could goto obed Wed Sat and Sunday! Berwicks details are here http://www.berwickodc.asn.au/ I've been really happy doing flyball there, instructors are great Ed's brother competes for them in their team, his sis has just joined and Suz has just joined her 2 staffords too, so we will be taking over soon

Yeah thats right Bel or Belinda! Ed and Molls are great, loving the flyball, though Ed is too obsessed with the ball! lol Sounds like Minxy is doing great with the ball recall, good stuff, I'm gonna have to do lots of that with Ed to wean him off thinking the ball is exciting! I think I will do similar to you but use a stationary ball so his prey drive doesn't kick in if the ball is rolled, it's the chase he loves What time is softball on Sat? Berwick flyball starts at 12.30

I think it cost me a couple of hundred to xray Ed's paw What have the boarding people said about it?

Oh my, I just didn't want to think it was going to happen

Man I hope its on this weekend I'm having withdrawels! ETA its forecast 24 so hopefully we'll be right!

Roo When Ed was a pup we gave him a brisket bone twice, both times he spent the night throwing up, so even though I know that heaps of dogs have them I personally don't Plastic bottles are loved by Molly, and Ed really doesn't chew on alot of things, he's pretty good really, he'd prefer to sleep!

Hey Lisa, you still going to Berwick adt as well? I've just joined Berwick obed with Ed and we've just started flyball there, ball obsession isn't a must from what I've gathered, they only need to carry the ball, the real excitement should be the motivator/tug toy at the end Classes are Saturdays lunch time

Bugger, all the grounds are cracking One of my obed clubs has warned people against running their dogs too, they are trying to fill the cracks

This Sunday!!! We might be there, not sure yet

Rex, yep find heel is great for heeling, Jimmy, this is basically just praising or click/treating when the dog is in the right position For general walks I don't care if he's in heel position as long as the leads loose, but if he pulls and I have to stop its back to me again 5km is a very long walk for a 5 month old though

On general walks I've been doing this with Ed, but instead of him sitting, I make him come back to my side, otherwise I am teaching him that I will come to him so he is still ahead And maybe if you want to use food when he does come back to you, then give him the food and start off again