I thought that I would start featuring a different YouTube dog-related video each week. These will be videos that have inspired me before, or from trainers and handlers who I most respect.
This week's shows a Border Collie being trained on position work, amongst other things. It's really inspiring to see a dog so keen on its handler.
Enjoy...
In other news, the good news is that its my Birthday tomorrow! The bad news is that, once again, I shall have a throat-infection over my Birthday. (The price of having a Birthday during the Winter months, I suppose.) Though, the infection does seem to have lessened, but I'm still quite tired. The trouble is that I cough in the night and then that wakes me up, and then because I'm tired, I'm not healing as quickly as I might. A vicious circle. But I'm so, so tired at the moment, and I think it's starting to have an effect on our training.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Cop-Cop Baseline Video
The following video shows Ellie's first attempt at the "cop-cop" move, which is February's training challenge. "cop-cop" is a Slovenian term, used in children's books, to describe how big animals walk like bears.
By taking this first video, I can see where Ellie's natural strengths and weaknesses are, and where I need to focus my attention. She seems to accept the walking part quite naturally, and so I can focus on getting her to place her paws onto my feet voluntarily. I was impressed by her though. She needed very little physical coaxing to get her on my toes, and did stay there, pretty much, once we started walking.
Will we accomplish this one by the end of February? I think so, but I'm not as positive as I was over the remote control retrieval.
By taking this first video, I can see where Ellie's natural strengths and weaknesses are, and where I need to focus my attention. She seems to accept the walking part quite naturally, and so I can focus on getting her to place her paws onto my feet voluntarily. I was impressed by her though. She needed very little physical coaxing to get her on my toes, and did stay there, pretty much, once we started walking.
Will we accomplish this one by the end of February? I think so, but I'm not as positive as I was over the remote control retrieval.
Friday, February 1, 2008
February's Training Challenge
It's the first of February, and so aside from meaning that my Birthday is only four more days away, it also means that the February Training Challenge has been announced.
The challenge is to teach Ellie the "cop-cop" move, by the end of February. (See video below.) I've been wanting to teach her this for ages, but have just always found other things that she seems to have naturally chosen for herself instead. I shall see about recording our first fumbling efforts later today, to use as the baseline video. Though we're apparently in for some snow and really quite harsh weather later today and over the next few days, so filming has to be done indoors, and it's not great light.
I should thank Barby who went out of her way to record that video for me yesterday, with her eager Beagle, Xsara, as I could only find videos that included it, but not that featured it solely.
In return for her efforts, I made a quick poster of Xsara in Photoshop. (Click to Enlarge)
In other news, my throat infection seems to be refusing to ease off. It's one of those which is more of an irritant than it is constantly sore. Not enough to be painful, but enough to irritate me and keep me awake at night. Then, because my glands are swollen, it keeps giving me an intermittent earache, albeit a dull one.
I've also just added the finishing touches to the new look and feel of the blog. I think it's a vast improvement over the old look. Hopefully, you do too!
The challenge is to teach Ellie the "cop-cop" move, by the end of February. (See video below.) I've been wanting to teach her this for ages, but have just always found other things that she seems to have naturally chosen for herself instead. I shall see about recording our first fumbling efforts later today, to use as the baseline video. Though we're apparently in for some snow and really quite harsh weather later today and over the next few days, so filming has to be done indoors, and it's not great light.
I should thank Barby who went out of her way to record that video for me yesterday, with her eager Beagle, Xsara, as I could only find videos that included it, but not that featured it solely.
In return for her efforts, I made a quick poster of Xsara in Photoshop. (Click to Enlarge)
In other news, my throat infection seems to be refusing to ease off. It's one of those which is more of an irritant than it is constantly sore. Not enough to be painful, but enough to irritate me and keep me awake at night. Then, because my glands are swollen, it keeps giving me an intermittent earache, albeit a dull one.
I've also just added the finishing touches to the new look and feel of the blog. I think it's a vast improvement over the old look. Hopefully, you do too!
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