The Perpetual Motion Machine

Novice Aussie and Handler's Training Diary

Come Away with Me

Amyinseattle | September 7, 2010

Molly is proving a little more hesitant on the Away side than the Bye side.  I thought it might be helpful for me to map out what we’re doing.  Hopefully it will make more sense in my head and when i go back this weekend to do it all over again it will be more [...]

Learning Inside Flanks (w/video)

Amyinseattle | September 2, 2010

I got some video of us working the Come Bye inside flank.  To cover the obvious; yes i can see now that the camera needs to be moved to the left.  oops!! Here is the first video.  Remember this is the 3rd time she has done a Bye side inside flank and the second time [...]

Simons Adoption Month

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 [...]

Expectations

Amyinseattle | June 28, 2010

I’ve really struggled with this post.  Sometimes when writing i feel a little like i’m posting to two masters; the Training Journal concept and the very public nature of a Blog.  Which, when things go great, are great. When they don’t go as well as hoped, it can be hard to really publicly call a [...]

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