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 | June 2, 2010
i’m sure someone told me at some point that we were not supposed to work the footbath. I just don’t remember it. whoops. On a whim, i entered the Ranch Trial that is this coming Friday. A Ranch Trial is what it sounds like, a trial that is supposed to mimic ranch work. So the [...]
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Amyinseattle | May 11, 2010
Outside of the fact that we had to discuss who’s really running this circus, the last lesson was happily uneventful. We’re still working on Hitting for the Cycle, but with each down well add a walk up into her stock. Elsie did make a side comment that has be rocking around in my head a [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: Driving, Flank, Handler Stress, rateing