I worked this backyard dog sequence #1-4 in the Nov 09, Clean Run magazine.
The first video is of course #1.
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Here is course #2
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Now here is #3 and #4. #4 is where we struggle. ( don't worry Roxy didn't get stepped on. I didn't even realize she was there until I watched the video)
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To much arm flapping but I didn't know how to cue her without it. Hmmm. Feel free to criticize my runs. She was rewarded a lot during the session but I edited it out.
The ferret is up and down. Saturday evening she wasn't doing well. She couldn't use her back legs at all. She was just dragging them behind her. Then Sunday, I walked in the room and she was lying in the middle of the floor. Ferret usually sleep in the dark, hidden some where. I thought she was dead. I went over to her and touched her and she moved. Ok, not dead. Now today she seems better. Who knows. They said it would be up and down like this. Poor Ferret.
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Thank you for posting those sequences, I am going to try them out. Miley looks great in the video!
Glad the ferret is around.
Watching those videos makes me want to play hookey from work today, and play in the backyard instead!
Glad to hear your ferret is having a good morning.
I think you guys did very well on those sequences! It must be difficult to get information to Miley soon enough since she moves so fast, but you were doing it! Mom has all day to tell me what to do - LOL!
We tried to set up agilitynerd's sequences and only made it through the first one. Then it got to dizzy-ing for mom!
I know what you mean Ricky! Miley is SOOOOOO fast! And in class last night I got dizzy because we were doing a bunch of right circles, left circles, corners. Katie doesn't seem to get dizzy though!
Anyway, I think Miley is exciting to watch! I'm sorry the poor ferret is having bad days. I know that's hard on the whole family too.
I liked how you worked through the first one and broke it down, that was nice. Was that the first time you tried the second one, you both flowed through that one really nicely. I went out and tried the first two....and when I cool down-its hot- we will try the last ones....then we can compair notes, LOL. I thought you worked through the last one really nicely, funny how you do what I do all the time, apologize to my dog, LOL, but I thought she was just missing that one jump because you were a little close to her line, and then when you ran it again you sort of kept a little more pressure off that line which fixed the problem, good work!!!! I LOVE all the leaves crackling and the pretty grass, and then I look at my back yard where I get to work and it is all DIRT, always brown, always dirty, gotta love the desert!
Now that our two feet of snow has melted, I will set these up and play with them this week.
Miley is awesome! In #4 you were a bit late at times but overall great handling! (Much better than me, haha.)
Glad that the ferret is doing better today. Kind of reminds me of one of my guinea pigs.
~Nat
I can't really see any specific reason why she was pushing out past that jump. It just looked like she was locking onto the backside of the jump for some reason. Maybe because you were working on 270's and serpentines so she was patterned a little bit? Hard to tell from the camera angle which side SHOULD have been more obvious to her. I would try walking her path and see if maybe the backside looks more obvious so she therefore needs a stronger cue to pull her to the correct side. I can't set up this sequence because I only have 5 jumps. Sometimes I can modify courses to make 5 jumps and a tire work, but not this one. Bummer! I'm gonna have to make up my own courses this month!
See you are inspiring others...I went out and did the second sequence today and that was flowed nice....it was sort of hot so I just went out with each dog for a few min. then went inside and went back out with the next dog a few hours later, so it is going to take us awhile to work through all the sequences, but glad you posted you were doing them because it got me doing them and I feel like it is great practice ;-) and I loved watching how you worked through them and then seeing how we had to adjust for us!
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