The Perpetual Motion Machine

Novice Aussie and Handler's Training Diary

Back in the Swing… Saturday

| July 29, 2010

Saturday was Molly only and all about pens.  It was hot and it seemed like  perfect opportunity to work on keeping things slow, easy and in short sessions.  Excellent for working on new things! So here is the section of Fido’s we used: Out sheep first had to be moved quietly out of the Large [...]

Back in the Swing… Friday

| July 26, 2010

Despite being out of the training gig for a while, this past weekend opened up a lot of interesting opportunities.  While most of Seattle shrinks at the sight of the alien orb; i love the heat.  My pasty white Irish doesn’t, but that has never stopped me before.  With the heat in the Puget Sound, [...]

View from the Stockpens P1

| July 8, 2010

I created a new category on this blog called “Amy Things”.  Originally when publishing here I wanted to stick to the hard nuts and bolts (rocks & sticks?) of stockdog work.  Though in this little adventure i’ve found that trying to separate Molly’s training from my ‘training’ and personal growth is much like taking peas [...]

Simons Adoption Month

| July 1, 2010

Simon doesn’t get a lot of airtime here.  As a general statement, this is my training journal.  However, none of this would be possible without Simon.   You see it was Simon fetching the neighbor’s horses out of our field to return them in the dark that led me into working dogs.  I wanted another heartbeat [...]

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