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 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 [...]
Category: AmyThings, Dog Things |
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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 [...]
Category: Dog Things, Molly |
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Tags: Australian Shepherd, Border Collie, Cattle, Commands, Goats, Injury, Simon
Amyinseattle | March 8, 2010
This, will probably be long. Consider yourself forewarned. My work Molly these last two months has been intermittent, but she has really done everything i asked her to. So here is a map of the setup: When i got to the farm one weekend… my fields were empty. Meaning that my yearling sheep were still [...]
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Tags: Driving, Reactive Rover, Simon