Monday, June 27, 2005

You win some, you lose some....

Well the Lethbridge show is over...what along weekend! I am exhausted...
Saturday I had Kate in Novice C as a refresher and wow was she nervous- her heeling was beautiful but she blew the recall...and held her stays....what a weirdo...
Wicca did really well on Saturday- her heeling was very good and she was very up in the ring- happy as usual...her recall was so so- had a bad finish....her long sit was perfect...and then he thought she would throw in a twist on the long down...we will call it the stretch 'n crawl.....Cute- but not quite we had intended...
Scent hurdle racing was awesome! She did very good and was super excited....She earned 15 points towards her Scent title...
Sunday I pulled Kate, and Wicca once again had a good start...but due to my bad handling - I told her to stay rahter than wait so she was pretty confused..she came when I called her but got stuck in the middle- undecided if she was right or wrong....
Oh well- I was overall pleased with her- she had tonds of fun and I got to see some very cute little corgi babies....
amanda

Monday, June 20, 2005

Practice, Practice....

Well a group of us got together today to run our dogs through- work out any kinks and just have a really good work out before the trial this weekend. Kate was not so good- she was happy but very goofy and by the time we got to the broad jump exercise she was very stressed...so, I am going to pull her this weekend rather than put her and me through the stress of the ring.
Wicca however was awesome. I am feeling really good about this weekend. She was very up on her heeling and her stand for exam was perfect. We also had a scent practice and she is amazing- it was the first time we had run altogether in a team in a long time and she was right on...Can't wait for the weekend!

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Wow...

Well even though I had good intentions I sure haven't posted much. It seems I am much too busy to even log on to the computer these days....Not that I don't mind being busy but sometime I think that it would be nice to do nothing....
anyways,

I went to an "attention" seminar yesterday and it was alright. A good refresher I guess- a lot of what we talked about I do already but it was nice to hear it from someone else that what I am doing is right...It was mostly Chris Bach's theory about the attention game and it was kind of neat to see dogs who had no attention on their owners at the beginning at the end starting to really get it. Wicca of course was a little star (like I said we have been doing the attention game since she was a baby) Sam on the other hand was histarical. We had Maureen laughing so hard...When I got Sam the only thing he knew was to sit pretty- a cute trick but not something I encourage a lot from him- it is still his default behavior however so as he is sitting in front of me and I have the cookie he of course thinks ofay- so I am not getting the cookie this way she must want me to be cute- co up on his haunches he goes- Maureen says okay wait it out a bit and then break the exercise...So 30 seconds or so goes by and he is still a statue...you could just see his little corgi brain thinking...wow am I smart!
Kate got to stay home for some little R&R- she's not really into the whole group thing but the corgis sure had fun....

Well a week to go until lethbridge dog show and I am still feeling very doubtful about Kate....I am just not sure I want to ask her to go back into the ring again- she surely didn't enjoy it before but she has been training so well I want to try....We are going to practice for the next couple days and then give her wed-fri off...
Wicca however has been doing awesome- I am quite impressed with her and am hopeful about the weekend. I only have her entered in two trials- one sat, one sun....But depending on how Lethbridge goes I will send my entries away for AKC in calgary (august) there is a cardigan booster so it would be lots of fun.....