This is my 2nd summer working on agility with Reign. It is not easy when we basically have to stop when the weather gets cold, snowy and or icy. Last night went pretty good. I am learning to remember to call out the next obstacle before he is finishes the one he is on. That for me is hard.
I did learn that Reign is understanding the names and how to run a course. So great progress.
Last night we did agility and rally. It was a lot of fun.
This is a friend with his Shepherd working on a level 2 course.
Scent work training at the Beltrami County Fairgrounds.
Credence doing scent work.
Purple Reign doing scent work.
Scent work training. We are gearing up for a UKC trail in a couple of weeks. UKC uses a different strength of odor than AKC. Andreas and Notorious are knocking this out of the park. Credence is good he just needs to slow down. Reign did some practicing too and did pretty good too.
Yesterday I got a couple of ducks from one of my hunt club friends. I introduced Encore to fetching the duck this morning. This was about 15 minutes of tossing the duck for her. Going to keep working her and enter some tests next summer. Her grandparents were exceptional hunting dogs. Her mom is a powerhouse in the field.
Did some scent work training Friday. Andreas and Notorious are becoming such a great team.
They will be entering the UKC in Sept.
I started Purple Reign on birch scent on Tuesday of this week 07/16/2024. We did about 5 minutes of training yesterday still with his scent vessel out in the open. Today for his 3rd training session I decided to see how he did with his vessel place among a bunch of stuff!
This is the first hide among stuff.
Purple Reign's first introduction to nose work.
Going to be busy the weekend of the 25th, but I got Valkyrie, Destiny and Purple Reign signed up for dock jumping in Cokato. If everything goes well both Valkyrie and Destiny will get their Grand Champion titles. This is Reigns first time jumping so we shall see how he does.
I got confused on the date for hunt training. I was all by my lonesome tonight. Thus my first time out with Reign since last Aug. I was so impressed. The in and out is an advanced training drill and he was a rock star.
Had agility last night. Reign is a little crazy outside. So many distractions he is like a kid on a sugar high. We worked a small sequence and by the end it wasn't bad.
Andreas and Notorious did a little scent work yesterday. Notorious was on fire. He did 4 searches and the longest he took was 35seconds.
Practicing Fetch with Purple Reign. If I had thought about before leaving the house for open agility I would have brought the distracters along.
I need him to be steady on the line so I corrected him when he was lunging. He caught on pretty quick. This week will be working on this with Encore and Credence too.
Credence doing scent work. Andreas was trying to trick him with kind of a threshold hide. Credence picked up the odor on the otherside. He worked the puzzle very well.
Valor is going to test for her Intermediate Trick Dog title in a few weeks. This is her favorite trick turning on a light. LOL She loves to use her feet.
Today was the last agility class for Purple Reign. He went over the dog walk for the first time. He was very nervous the first few times but by his 5th time he was walking across the dog walk with ease.
We have been working on a lower board in the living room getting ready for the dog walk. I am glad he trusted me and we have worked on his confidence so this was not a traumatic experience for him.
