Amyinseattle | April 30, 2010
You’ve had this moment, don’t lie. Your dog knows what she or he is supposed to be doing and yet, there they are off doing something that can only be described as Screwing Around. But don’t misread this: no one is beating up on Molly. Though truth be told, i have threatened to sell her [...]
Amyinseattle | April 21, 2010
This past weekend was Trial Prep and Amy vacation weekend. The April Trial is next weekend and this is about the time I start to twitch a little. No matter how much work is done, there is always more to do. It’s wise for me to just back off for a day or two and [...]
Amyinseattle | April 11, 2010
Today was another day of Hitting for the Cycle. To review: Hitting for the Cycle is how we’re teaching Molly the aspiring sheepdog to make small flank movements instead of big (fast) sweeping gestures all the time to move sheep. So if I and the sheep are in the middle of the circle and sooner [...]
Amyinseattle | April 4, 2010
This weekend we started Hitting for the Cycle. I tried to jump in and do the work in the middle of the Big Field. I found that I was having a hard time preventing the annoying circling behavior that i’m sure i’ll be dealing with when she’s an old dog. It’s been my experience when [...]
