MIndy "Bump Jumps"

It's been a while, I know, I've been busy and time seem to be flying past and I seem to be getting nothing done. The nights are drawing in, teaching is weekends mainly now weather permitting, I do struggle with the ground, it just gets so wet down in this part....

But after a bit of encouragement from various people, I tried Mindy around a circle of "Bump jumps" or is it "Jump bumps" it's old guttering, which ends up doubling up as something I start the veggys off in the green house with!

Anyway we use them just so she doesn't slip on a poles, although she is jumping a lot higher, wider and longer out on her wood walks, this is more controlled so we start low and for me to gain confidence that she is okay-ish, her toy is her reward stationary and thrown.

I did spend the whole time watching her and not sorting out her toy reward in time, I should just get Ian to video and then me just to work her, otherwise we could have an accident because I'm not telling her what she needs to know early enough etc....this is very scary for me, I saw in the flesh she struggles with the grip going around to her left, but it doesn't really show on the video, she is wider in her turns back to me, but maybe she was before the accident, I cant say I remember really, after such a serious accident you do find yourself doing way too much watching every foot step etc.

She is still having her massage sessions, with Nikki Townend from the Canine remedial Massage. Mindy adores her and I mean that, those that know Mindy will be amazed to hear that she likes another person as much as Ian and I, maybe she is just mellowing? Anyway Nikki will be coming this Tuesday, so it will be interesting to see, whether doing controlled circles isn't good or has pulled a muscle/tightened somewhere before I do any more.

"Sennen" Weaving Oct 2011.

..and here's the video!

Taking it on the road!

Sennen is learning to weave using the 2 x 2 method, I should have listened to what Susan G says on her DVD, don't start them until a year old, I didn't and started her at 11 months and within 3 weeks she was weaving a full set of 12 (new width weaves) but I had been very bad AGAIN and not taking them into different environments and my garden is fenced in with no distractions except the old "Puff" joining in on the session...
Anyway after she was weaving a full set I went back to 6 and took them on the road, went to Mums last week and Mum took some pictures (She's clever my Mum) this was Sennen's first attempt at weaving this set of 6 in a new place and the first photo (yes she got them)
So then we "upped" the anti and added Mum's dogs, here's Lilly, Sennen did great and only missed one entry over the 6 mins of totally training time including tugging....
and lovely Polly who would have been great at agility, if only I had lived closer to Mum, Polly's running flat out past the weaves as she wants to beat Sennen to her toy!
PS. I did swop sides and I did do some cross behinds but nothing fancy!
and my final distraction area, was this week in the crazy Rabbit field along side the A30, this was so hard for Sennen as this is where she can really open up on a short field walk and where all the bunnies live and...and....
I did the first rep straight out the van and back towards the van, so not looking out into the field, she did it but was really wanting to get going, but I managed to turn her attention on to tugging and having fun with me and the couple of mins rep into the field she was fab, she is trying to one foot them too........

Going, going GONE!

Aren't we lucky to have a neighbour with a digger?


So just some, wheels and tyres, oh and some axles to sell now, nice digger neighbour popped 10 tonnes of top soil over the fence too, just right for the veggy garden and this area which tends to get waterlogged in the winter, so we are trying to raise it! the soak aways from the house are under there somewhere, which had to be redone when we first moved in....

For a friend!

This is a post for a Friend who starts her chemo today, to help her fight breast cancer, did you know 1 in 8 women get it?

and actually it's "Love from us all here, at The Pit"

Sennen a week later...

hummmmm

What do these 3 pictures have in common?
Well this is Jacob, who lives in Somerset and he is Sennen's litter brother, can you see the white GSD in him.....
and just to remind you this is Annie Mummy

So I recon the dad was a White GSD, dont you???