Homework

Please answer these questions here on the Blog. Remember yo sign yout name.

1) What did you learn from PPP, Part 1?

2) What were your  BIG "Ah-ha's! " while you were in PPP Part 1?

3) What were the hardest skills for you and your dog to acquire during PPP Part 1?

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4) What are your expectations of PPP Part II?

5) What titles, on which dog, have you acquired already as s result of PPP?

6) What titles, on which dog, are you planning on earning in 2023?

7) What titles, on which dog, are you planning on earning in 2024?

Please post your answers by July 4th.

Roxanne 

Kim & Kara 2nd try

Kim & Kara first open trial

Kim & Kara GN title

6-11-23 PPP Part 1: Proofing the High Jump

Link to 6-11-23 Proofing the High Jump

6-7-23 Field training with hooded (and one dead already) duck

 I am seeking to prepare Redd for her SH trials in Idaho in 2 weeks.  And to prepare Ruth also for her JH trials in Idaho at the same time.  Hooded ducks are 'live cripple's' so the learning dog has to learn how to pick up a still moving, flapping, quacking, duck.  None of my dogs killed these ducks, they literally died of stress. But I was delighted there were no teeth marks or crunching by ANY of my dogs in retrieving these ducks today.

The warm up

Redd's Take 2 (after warm-up)  

 Ruth

   

 Boaz

   

 And happy to finally get ANYTHING to retrieve, especially real ducks, Pree-:)

Sunday's PPP 6-4-23 class videos. Polish and footwork

Link to 6-4-23 Zoom class viideos 

Cavaletti practice with Molly

 We practiced a little more today. I kept the same set up but sent her on an extended place. She seemed to do much better without the leash.

 

We’ll do more of these set ups in different locations and on different surfaces as Roxanne suggested 😊

Miss Molly

Yesterday afternoon at PPP Molly was having a hard time with the broad and the jump. She wasn’t pushing off on her back feet. However, she did this on our run earlier in the week. Her back legs looked pretty good as she pushed off to leap over the creek. 

Roxanne suggested practicing cavalettis to help her with her hind legs. As you can see, neither one of us are very graceful.

We’ll keep practicing then start in again on the broad and the jump. We have some ground to cover!

FC Week 2 EXAM: Tunnel of Love with Tim/Marley. Videotaped 6-1-2023

 

Roxanne and her dog's example

Tim and Marley effort in my Tunnel of Love

Roxanne and Marley retake/training reality

Update on June/July

 Class,

The remaining PPP, Part 1, is through the end of June. We are focusing on polish work, working dogs through the Open routine, and working a dog at whatever level they are capable of doing thus far. 

The last two weekends of June I am gone, Jessi will be the Lead Instructor here for those 2 Sundays. 

PPP, Part II, begins the first weekend in July. Scent Discrimination, Directed Jumping, Moving Stand, Directed Retrieve (as well as continuing Signals) will be taught.  Also, there is an additional side training route for dogs ready to go onto the AKC Senior Hunt material.

Onward. 

Roxanne

May 31, 2023 Redd @ Allyson's doing first official Open run thru