The Perpetual Motion Machine

Novice Aussie and Handler's Training Diary

Fall Prep

| October 2, 2010

Fall has come to the valley… and it really is a beautiful thing. In any given day there are showers, rain and sunshine. The leaves from the maples and poplars are changing color, giving the hillsides a patchwork look in reds and greens. Thankfully, the walnut trees won’t loose their leaves for another month or [...]

I got friends in small spaces…

| September 21, 2010

More inside flanks. When Elsie told me this would take a while to get down, i thought she was trying to make me feel better.  Yeesh.  On the upside, i’ve worked Molly on the Bye side in a few different places and she seems to be getting more solid.  Her Away side still needs work, [...]

Learning Inside Flanks (w/video)

| 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 [...]

And behind the back

| September 1, 2010

Flanks; inside, far away and behind the back! I started today putting Molly in with the same medium (read here, totally fetchy, but not quite sofa quality) sheep as we used in the lesson.   To review we’re trying to do inside flanks.  Typically a flank is half a circle with the handler at one end [...]

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