Mixing our walk up with a spot of obedience. Who said obedience couldn’t be fun. Just look at that tail.
Having fun with my gundog. Obedience skills can be fun too. Look at that waggy tail. ❤️🐾❤️🐾
Good dogs going to place. 😇😇😇
Caddie retrieval training.
Dogs love a job. While there are many ways to enrich your dog’s life without participating in competitions, we just love our scent work and the dogs love using their noses. Competition is a great motivator and I have met some of my dearest friends through participating in dog sports like agility, obedience, retrieval and scentwork.
Here is Georgie at a scent work class run by Carole. Learning is fun for me and my dog. Thanks for the class and the video Carole.
Georgie is searching for odour and indicating to me when she has found it.
Skills for Life classes
Poppy has gained so much confidence since she began “Skills for Life” classes. 2 weeks ago she wasn’t brave enough to go into the tunnel, now look at her. She confidently ran through the tunnel for her piece of chicken. What fun.
My classes offer a safe environment for your dog to gain confidence and learn to relax around other dogs and people. We cover tropics such as loose lead walking, come when called, go to mat or place and more. Plus some little fun extras.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to join my next classes.
Good girl Poppy (and Rachel) thank you for the video.
Caddie and I are having a bit of fun training sit, drop, stand on verbals. Not so easy for dogs. Hand signals are much easier for them to understand, but we are getting there and it is always fun and worth her while to work with me. Love this dog. ❤️
Caddie searching Birch
Caddie searching for birch. She loves her scent work.
Teaching Caddie to “hold”.
I am teaching Caddie to hold gently after a history of playing tug. I hope to train her in the sport of retrieval at some point so she will need to be able to hold gently and present the item to me. This is our progress after a few short sessions.
Georgie scent work.
Georgie has 2 hides to find, birch and cloves. Good job Georgie. Great start to the day.
Joey’s run in novice jumping today at spring fair.
(Not) 🤣Joey’s run in novice jumping at the spring fair.
Oops wrong video. This is Georgie’s run in open agility where we missed the distance bit. We still had a fun run.
Joey is learning 2 on 2 off as a behaviour to be used on the contact equipment in agility. His progress has been a bit slow so I decided to get my clicker out and make him think. The click could end the behaviour but he was choosing to hold it so I kept clicking and rewarding then released him. He then had to think about the position he was being rewarded for. He got quicker each time. Occasionally he threw in a chin on the floor behaviour or a sit but we will work through that.
We haven’t done much agility since the covid lockdowns but we are trying to get back into it. We entered the Hawkesbury agility trial last weekend and Georgie had a fabulous weekend gaining quallies in Masters Agility with a 2nd place, and Masters Jumping with a 1st place. This is our Masters Jumping run where we came 🥇 first.
The sport of agility is a wonderful way of developing an incredible bond with your dog. This run was such a feel good run, where the communication between us was almost flawless.
What a nose Caddie #noseworkdog. #scentdog. #scentwork. #scentworktraining
Caddie scenting #scentwork #noseworkdog #searchingforodour
Caddie’s scentwork progress. Slightly more difficult hides.
