So, I have this blog...

So, the story up to this point: I currently have three dogs, my own two Aussies Josh (2 and a bit years old), Billie (almost 1 year old) and a long-term visitor Golden Fyre (7 years old). Fyre arrived in December 08 and was hopefully to have been trialling for some time by now, however 'twas not to be this year. Josh commenced his agility training when he turned 2, but the training 'schedule' for both dogs has been somewhat patchy up to this point.

Having missed running a dog at the last two Nationals due to Porter being injured in 2007 and retired thereafter, and Josh not being old enough in 2008, I was loath to miss the upcoming Perth Nationals, especially as we had such a great time there in 2005. This was exactly the incentive I needed to really get into the dogs into some sort of regular training - now the accommodation deposit is paid, the flights are booked, and I have some 156 days from this point onwards to get Josh and Fyre to trialling standard. Phew!

So the purpose of this blog is to give me somewhere to record what we are achieving in our training sessions, what our goals are, what we need to work on... thus allowing me to track our progress and also make sure I actually do SOMETHING with them every day :)

To start with here are some little vids I took yesterday (by sitting the dodgy little camera on an upturned bucked) of the dogs practicing 2x2 entries. What did I learn from this? I need to be more co-ordinated with throwing the toy - especially with Fyre I am throwing it far too late (worried he's going to go around the entry) which is encouraging him to look back over his shoulder and/or spin when he should be driving forward. Same with Josh but to a lesser extent because I trust him a bit more. The positive to take out of this session was that neither had done a jump into the entry before so I was pretty stoked that they both managed to figure that one out very quickly!