Thursday, November 23, 2006

Obedience

It was a fast session as both Ann and I had dinners to get to.

I worked both dogs twice, heeling, in motion exercises and recalls. I put the electric collar on Aron, nicks if he lost focus, huge praise for looking back after the correction.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Tracking

Tracking went really well this morning out at Southside. Ann came with Basco and Jojo managed to bring Nero out. It was really good to see him out. I needed help finishing up Ann's choc chip cookies.

Aron ran a really good 300yrd track. He wroked it with concentration from beginning to end, the food pieces were 11 paces for the most part with some up to 15 and 21 at the end. One corner was a little challenging, unsure why other than a strong wind over a rise, the other 3 corners were good.

Madison ran a really good track at over 1 hour old that Ann laid with almost no food on it.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

10th Anniversary Dinner

Bermuda Working Dog CLub 10th Anniversary
Well the constitution is 10 years old... The club actually started training 12 years ago.

It was a really good dinner at Harbourfront. We had 20 people and a presentation was made to Leo our Founding President.

Obedience & Protection

Good, fairly quick session at Port Royal School this afternoon. Ann brought Basco, Jojo came with Nero, Jermaine came without dogs and Mark and Jeanette brought Ceasar and Nancy. We managed to finished by 5:30 to give everyone time to get home, cleaned up and to the 10th anniversary dinner at 7:00.

Ran two blinds with Aron. Lots of distraction from the helper outside of blind#2 while he was running to #1. Worked well, focused him on returning to me before being sent on for the runout bite as a reward.

Tracking

I am trying to get 2 days of tracking back to back on a consistent basis so I met Ann out at Southside this morning to track.

Aron ran his 300+yrd track, 3 corners, piece of food 9 and 11 paces, one article. He did quite well, although it took about 50 paces to really settle in and work tight to the track. I'm not sure if the ground cover was a factor as the first 40-50 paces was very gravelly with sparse grass.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Obedience

Thursday night at Vesey St was a good session. Ann brought Basco and Paula brought out her 12wk old Dobie for some foundation works.

I worked Aron on attention, heeling, sits and downs in motion and a recall.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Tracking

Sunday morning out at Southside was perfect weather for tracking with a little overcast keeping the temp down.

I ran Aron on a 45 min old track, about 300 paces, one left, one right. He did alright but I think I moved to 15 and 21 paces between food a little fast as I started to see some quartering which I then had to correct. I will move back to 11 and 15 next week.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Obedience & Protection

Saturday afternoon at Port Royal School was a good relaxed session. Ann was of course the first at the field with Basco, Jojo brought Nero out and Jermaine came with Capone. It was good to see Clifford for a short time.

We worked on a blinds under distraction excercise. THe helper stood down in the middle of the field while the hanlder ran 2 blinds and released the dog for a long bite after a correct run. It served to highlight the work needed to proof the excercise against distraction. We adjusted the level of stimulation, ie whip and movement, to strengthen the dog without making it too difficult for the individuals.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Wallace Payne at the 2006 WUSV Worlds

Wallace Payne
Merlin von Conneforde place 3rd at 2006 WUSV !!
South Metro Atlanta Schutzhund Club

Tracking - 94 pts
Obedience - 90 points
Protection - 98 points (High Protection)

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Tracking

Kay brought Loki, Ann brought Basco and Frank brought Tyson.

I worked to build on the tracking work from the seminar with Aron. I laid a Sch2 length track with 1 right and 1 left corner. He worked through it very well. I made the mistake of leading him by about half a step before the first corner, but Kay called me on it and the second corner he nailed perfectly. THe changes in line handling that Wallace recomemded are working really well to improve to overall picture.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Protection or Obedience

Well Saturday's protection session became a tag team obedience training session with only Ann and I bringing dogs.