Amyinseattle | 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 [...]
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Amyinseattle | 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, [...]
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Tags: Australian Shepherd, Driving, Handler Stress, rateing, Sheep, Simon
Amyinseattle | 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 [...]
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Amyinseattle | 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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