Sennen...go-on work

and here's some fun with Go-on work!

"Sennen" seesaw training.

I decided to teach Sennen the seesaw early on in her life, in a safe environment at home, so we have done a method called, "cram all methods in and see what happens", as you can see she isn't worried at the moment as nothing bad has happened, I wont be letting her take the whole bang until she's around 12 months, so plenty of time to play with it....

I got Ian to help, first of all he ran her up to the seesaw on the lead, she could then run to the end with her toy/treat waiting for her, then as soon as she became comfortable with that, I had her in a wait whilst I went to the end waiting for her....we then progressed onto, sending her into a curvy tunnel, giving me a chance to run to the end and catch it before she had chance to beat me, but soon learnt I was getting close to not getting there before her, so we moved on to another method "bang it" game, where she learn't to pull it down to get back on it and we reward with either toy/treat and eventually I would have her toy/treat waiting for the otherside of some jump wings ...just so she learnt not to always expect a reward on the SS...I then realised most of my work had been done with me at the end, so to help with independence of the SS I added another game, which was, a treat was stuck on the end of the SS (cream cheese as it sticks) and then I would send her from the down part and up to the end whilst I was at the down end and then I'd lower it it down, so I started from the height of a chair then a lower object etc..until she could run from the floor with my foot on the bottom, until she reached the top and it was lowered under control.....and that's it until she is old enough to take the bang...

Odd jobs weekend!

The new fencing...well the start of it, I was getting slightly fed up of Sennen eating all the veg's, so we (Ian) made a start on fencing the area off, this is the shortest fence, the other side needs lots more wood and work, but the area also needs approx 10 tonnes of top soil too, so didn't want to put the fence up and then have to wheel barrow the whole lot through the gate! until we have saved up enough pennies to pay for some to be delivered!

The only felt roof left on the sheds, needed replacing, so that was done too.
.....and after 4 years of asking, now and again I got my latch on the gate going down into the agility garden area, it was such a pain having to use both your hands to open it before....

Buzz is showing you......

Marrow Bones!

Sennen's 2nd time of having a marrow bone, I try and give marrow bones every 2/3 months, this time it kept Sennen going for 4 hours of chewing...bliss

"Sennen" washing machine trick!

So Sennen got bored and chewed the chair leg, so I spent 6 mins training her to get the washing out and shutting the door...work in progress, but she was mentally tired at the end of this session...it's rather long to watch, so if you don't want to get bored watching the whole session don't bother!

Worcester1 to 7 small jumping

A nice 1-7 jumping course, Harry was clear, but not fast enough for a place, I wasn't quick enough to get my front cross in in between jump 3/4, and I over cooked both pull through, after jump 5 and between 12 and 13, but yet again he gave 100%...Love him

Mindy's too had a great round and the judge just needs to know her course to realise she wasn't e'd between jump 3/4, Mindy did almost come through the gap between 3/4 but I was able to correct her, so if she (judge) was being picky she could have given me a 5R, but hey...Mindy did a great round....

Harry 6/7 small jumping

Worcester show, Aly came with us to share the driving, we left at silly O'clock 3.30 am! but we both enjoyed our day although I didn't bring any places back to Cornwall, Aly did so, that was good...

This is the 6/7 jumping judged by Barrie James, great course and I was really looking forward to it, you could let them have their heads a bit to cover the ground, bet it was fun for the large dogs!

This would have been Mindy's last run and I was looking forward to it, although she had worked so well in the last two classes, was sort of waiting for the fall! Barrie has yet to see her work well, so it was a shame she couldn't get off the start line, I couldn't get her to do any tricks or play, maybe she was tired as all the small runs where finished by 10.30 and they had 3 each.... anyway I left her on the start line, well you did need a bit of a head start and eventually she left the start line at a trot, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt and attempted to do a "funny turn" which usually gets her going, but no she wasn't going fast enough to execute that one, so we ran to the finish and I picked her up and gave her a cuddle after trying to get her to tug........