Here is a pic from training today. We are concentrating on getting the dogs comfortable no matter how many teams are on the field and today worked on heeling around dogs while keeping the dogs attention. Last week we actually had dogs jump over other dogs in a down and next week is all the dogs downing nicely while one team in out there playing with a ball.

A couple of sessions and you can already see a difference in the dogs focus on the handler, we have pretty much had dogs brush against each other and things like that. Bacall and I are second from the right and Cori is on the other end with a friend of mine who held the leash while I worked Bacall.

Dogs look good...but man look at that BLUE sky!!

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Dogs look good...but man look at that BLUE sky!!

I was just thinking the same thing and the short sleeve shirts. Man, I was dressed in my winter woolies today.

Really nice line up of dogs. Is that a Dutch Shepherd on the right? And is there a reason the 4th guy down has his dog sitting on the right?

Look at the attention from your girl, great focus. She's beautiful!

Video Betty! Video!

Hehe, I hate posting video. Maybe in a couple of weeks when we have more of the rough edges smoothed over.

I started off at 6am with the heavy pants and a sweater when i started rotating/feeding/pottying dogs. Shortly after this picture was taken I changed into shorts. Time of year we have to layer dress but the opposite of you guys I think.

Yep it's a Dutchie!

I'm not sure if he has trained to the right for some reason or if that was just an accident. The dog is a certified working narcotic dog but I don't think that would make a difference.

This is working out great, I had a big hole in my training for this type of thing the past year and I feel so much better now that it's being addressed.

Annabelle, and Bacall to a lessor agree has always had a very defined "space" that they prefer other dogs not to enter and it's important for them to learn well, tough. Murphy's law is that they are the ones leaving the protection field when another dog gets lose or something stupid happens.

Trained in town this past week with these guys and took Danni. It had rained and we had several grates with running water on the street that I was able to walk Danni over and have her sit and platz on them. One of the guys even brought their young son so we were able to have him run and yell around the dogs like kids sometimes will.

The sidewalks were adjacent to the road so we took advantage of that too. Not too much traffic where I live. <grin>

But all in all I'm very pleased with my somewhat suspicious dogs.


A couple more on facebook for anyone that is bored.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=137255179658749&set=a.137251319659135.41653.104272536290347&pid=213007&id=104272536290347

Lol, come on Betty. I've put up video with forging,crooked sits, no control. We want to see training, not the finished product.

I'm a long way from the finished product.

I'll see what I can do, I have to make sure it's cool with everyone else, or just do a video of the ones that are fine with it.