Say it with a Video!

Oh and a photo....


Mindy's winners prize photo taken by http://www.dartmoor-animal-photgrapher.co.uk/ at SWAT the week before Hinckley.


Look at her one stepping those weaves, she cant quite do them all, but she tries.....



Hinckely Show at Sandford Hall, Lutterworth

a very long way from Cornwall.....it took 6 hours going up because of the traffic, but only 4.5 coming home with a stop to pick up a foster dog and one to fill up with fuel.

Good job I shared with Aly, both the driving and the cost, made it fun too, we timed arriving just right and camped next to Neil and Sarah, as we only had one fork and no booze (Aly's fault, she was the shopper for this show!!) we even had an air display on the Sunday and an Italian Car show going on in the next field, oh yes and a thunder storm that lite the sky up for a few hours on Saturday night.
Great show, although the ground was rather bumpy for those that tented it....US and far too much sheep poo! wished there had been a closer loo, rather than one block of 5, maybe we where the only ones tenting it, so they where placed for the day Parker's! ....oh and it was far to hot on Saturday......Thank god for the Cool coat (for Harry)...Loved the show and if Aly wants to go next year we will be back.

Red's first Hinckley was on a bowling green campsite, that was fab too except I lost my wedding ring and this time I lost my Daffy duck, now I've had this Daffy for a few years and I was really upset (Aly thought I was being a wee bit sensitive about it and yes I could buy another one, but fancy losing it at the same show I lost my wedding ring! ) so if any of you found a small "Daffy Duck" at Hinckley it's MINE (it's one of those small things that fits on your crocs)


One day I'll have a dog called "Daffy" but too date none have been suited for that name!


...any way here's Harry in the champ class at Hinckley, he did really well, coping with the heat and ME, that weave discrimination will be put up to practise, but I can see what I did wrong, so that's great.....

and a couple of Mindy's run.

Kick up the butt!

Well I had my "kick up the Butt" by Elaine, well it wasn't really a kick up the butt, more goal setting and motivational talk! ......and having read Susan Garrett blog......I felt like getting back into it, not necessarily agility, although I did go out and run Buzz along a line of jumps on medium height, I use the word run loosely as I left the toy at the end so, he didn't herd me and sent him to the end of 5 jumps at various widths apart..........Well it's a start.

What I have been doing is lots of clicker training, Well again I say lots, it actually was all day on and off on Saturday as it was raining and Ian was outside welding a winch bumper together (that's another post later on, for all you off roaders!) it's funny really the two big dogs weren't brought up with clickers, I've really only got into it with the two small ones, so I thought I would have a go with the "Bigs" as well, you can see all the videos on my YouTube link in the link section, if your interested!
So I did the basic with the Big dogs, I had taught them tricks before, but not with the clicker, so some of what they did they knew from before, except I added a new "Trick" put your head in a flower pot! WHY I've no idea! ....but they cottoned on to to it really quickly we are talking about two dogs here that at 10 in a half and nearly 8 year old.

The "Smalls" have been taught from scratch with the clicker, so they are easy and fast to pick things up as long as your timing is right, Mindy started to show me a new one, which I think I might go along with "Wipe your feet", she did it whilst doing a touch command, she pawed at the target, I also want to help her accept the Halti better so we will do more on that today and feet touching she hates her front feet being touched, she has such long hair around that area they need to be trimmed and nails cut, she will mouth you and protest, so that will be her next step.
Harry just loves doing anything for food and will come up with anything, so he has learnt to get in his sleeping bag, with a little help at the moment and to hug a toy/bottle/plastic pipe and even Daffy duck!

Why have we got a Daffy Duck toy, well Ian loves anything to do with DD! We have quite a collection now from stickers, Christmas tree hanging thingy to Tattoos!

This is what happens after a clicker training session!

So now that I'm clicker ed out maybe I'll go out and do a bit of agility training? Must enter some shows too, as closing dates are starting to get closer, still can't make my mind up about the small/medium Chippenham show, it would be Harry's first champ show.........