Oh and of course, congratulations on the training progress!!

Please keep us posted on his training (or at least me by PM hehe); I will have to live vicariously through you and Lear when it comes to protection training

Bumping Lear's thread. I uploaded new pics of his bitework session (3rd one - finally remembered to bring the camera!). There's 3 videos as well, 2 of bitework, 1 of playing in the wading pool. If you watch the videos, make sure they're not set on slide show or it will only show 3 seconds of each video.

Excuse the quality of some of the smaller pics, especially the "Lunge" series which was taken from a 1 second video with very low battery so exposure was off. Actually it looks rather abstract, kind of cool (maybe)
http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n129/metalasi/Lear%20bitework%20and%20videos/

Fun!

How old again?

He had just turned 10 months the day before those were taken on 4/7. He gets excited to see the trainer/decoy. We had to skip the next 2 weekends cause of a trip I took him on (which he loved!).

great pics Sandy!!!
you sure got an amazing looking dog.
ilove the way he amuse himself in the water and with the chair hallerius!!!
remind me one of my feamales mals -she love to engineer things to herself aswell.

iwhould increase his drive for the ball thou.

good looking bite in the one with the black thin sleeve when your helper holding it from both ends.

iwhould love to watch afilm of him doing bite work.

im sending you apm about the issues we discuss about.


sefi.s

Sandy, you sound so proud in the video! You two must be having a blast with this! Please keep us posted on his progress! I love to watch the dogs develop!

 Quote: Amber Morgan

Sandy, you sound so proud in the video! You two must be having a blast with this! Please keep us posted on his progress! I love to watch the dogs develop!

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto......awesome Sandy.

Wow, Sandy!

He looks great and you can tell he's having a ball. How does he like working with someone else compared to you?

Nice to hear your voice and your laughter, too

The baby pool video made me laugh out loud.

 Quote: sefi sahar

iwhould love to watch afilm of him doing bite work.

Hah!

icant belive imissed thos two clips of him in the bite work,
how blind aman can be?

Thanks guys! We are definitely having a blast. It's so fun to watch him. I had to let my son handle the leash, Lear was just too strong for me (I'm ashamed to admit!). It was so different from any pulling he's done on a leash in the past, which I could handle. The pulling for the prey item was over the top strength-wise. It took me by surprise. I tried it on the 1st training session and at one point I was lucky to have stopped him when he lunged for the trainer (who had no protection on and was wearing shorts!). The trainer told me about how some men just won't hold their dogs back and he stops training them if they don't heed his warning. So I enlisted my son for all future sessions

When Lear sees the trainer open his big black bag of stuff where he keeps the rag, sleeve and other gear, he wants to grab the prey items out of there, he gets so excited. I love seeing how happy he is when he's working. I get so much joy out of his joy.

Mike, you asked how Lear likes working with someone else - do you mean my son handling him or the trainer himself?