Great Handstand Progress Today

Both George and Roxy are backing up to a step really well. I used to have to use something to guide them onto the step now they are getting it. We also had fun having the other two dogs in a down stay while I worked on the 3rd dog. Will get the next video up Thursday.

Training the Dogs to do a handstand

We recently started the process of training George, Gracie, and Roxy to do a handstand. We will keep everyone up to date with videos of our training progress.

Here is a video of George in an early training vedeo



This is another video a couple days later.



Similar training progress with Roxy



Thanks for watching.

Happenings

We have not been keeping up our Blog. Lot's has been happening since the last update. We will be adding new content soon.

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Agility

Roxy and have completed our 3rd class in level 1 agility training. What fun. Roxy seems to really enjoy the activity. Our homework is going well with the sit and down stays, the walking and waiting, the touch exercises, and the quick downs. We were having difficulty with her walking on my right but I think we are getting past that now. One a problem we are trying to work out is walking the board, at the end of the board, Roxy turns toward me and her butt goes off the board. Maybe I need to stand at the end of the board so I'm facing her as she reaches the target area. We went to a CPE agility competition in Chula Vista today and observed our friend Marie and her dog Kendall run some of the trials. Marie knows what she's doing and Kendall looks great, what a beautiful animal! Looks like fun. I think we'll continue with the lessons and give it a try. We were also invited to check out fly ball with the team Fast Forward Fly ball, we may visit them on Wednesday night and see what their lessons and practice are like.

700 kids

What can you do with 700 elementry school kids? Have fun, nothing goes together better than K9 tricks and kids. Why dogs fly did a show for the Indian Hills elementary school yesterday and because I had the day off, I got to tag along. Al has the best job ever! We arrived at the school about 2 hours before curtain time to set up. It's amazing, when we were about one block from the school the team goes nuts (all except Al, he controls himself pretty well) George and Roxy started barking and Gracie began crying with excitement, HOW DO THEY KNOW?? They have never been to this school before! The dogs carry on like this just before we arrive at competitions also. Does anyone else see this with their dogs? if so, whats your guess on this behavior?