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Whipridge Pure Silk CD ADM JDM2 JDO2 GD SD SPD ET has to be the most agility titled Whippet and with obedience and endurance titles as well, for numbers he must be the most titled Whippet in Australia?? Flynn is trained and owned by Amanda Peck in Tasmania. eta. Bonnymead Ruby Valentine ET UD & Bonnymead Valentine Day ET UD owned by J&P Langton-Bunker are probably the highest obedience titled Whippets in Australia.

No, you don't have to use the dogs name, you can use your recall word only. Like you said, if you do choose to use their name, there must be a pause before the 'come'.

LL, I prefer working line kelpies....you know, the kelpies that don't look like kelpies Labradors in the UK and US have split (show - working), as they have in recent times Australia. Show and working lines simply have different perfection criteria. Might I humbly add Customs labradors also. Hey photo of JP and Dan. Cool, glad Poodlefan (and Lara) did not add a certain photo of a pick up dog at the stake while Dan and Yo competed together. Was that Yank? :D No Peppa pie. They needed a water pick up dog so I offered her. The photo was a very wet Peppa on my lap. She was lying on her side, eyes looking up and licking. Cute snap - spoilt working labradors. Guilty. ha. Wot photo?

Sometimes you do have to make a choice about what to concentrate on for a while. Like Mrsdog my dogs play Jack Of All trades, but I enjoy trying different things with them, and they seem to as well. The most intensive time is when the foundations for any sports are being set as these are so important. With my youngest boy we currently compete in Retrieving and Obedience trials. We started Agility training last year but I dropped it when I realised I didn't have the time or inclination to put the effort in for the solid foundations. We are still training pretty strongly for both Retrieving and Obedience as he's still young and very much learning even though he's progressed through the levels well. When I'm happy with pulling back a bit on those I'll probably add Agility again.. or when they invent this 36 hour day, and I have the energy my dogs do....

Kyeamba Kennel & Training CLub conduct agility trials in Wagga, so I assume they have training. Contact I found on the Dogs NSW website: Kyeamba Kennel & Training Club 02 6931 4635 Mrs Jean Purvis Wagga Wagga 2650

No idea but will find out eventually. Travelling away from home may delay response. Gee in NSW you have a double rise and a blind, IN A WORKING TEST!!! Why not simply compete in retrieving trials? Please tell me the working test judges do not elect blind pick up first LOL(not that would be legal on a double rise in retrieving trials) No, the double rise is done first. The retrieves are shorter than a retrieving trial, and terrain can be.... well.. non existant Although there are some good grounds which test the dogs well. Don't worry, there have been quite a few people who do retrieving trials that started out with GWT's, me included

Lablover, does WA run on the same rules as SA? GWTs have state based rules and can differ from state to state. For example in Open in SA there's a double mark but in NSW we have a Double rise and a blind.

laffi, when you refer to a Gundog Trial do you mean a Gundog Working Test or a Retrieving trial?? I'll assume it's not a Field trial as I don't think they'd refer to single mark retrieves... GWT's are either on dummies (supplied by you) or pigeons (supplied by the club). Retrieving trials are done on game, usually pigeons (again supplied by the club).

Still early in the year, but nice to look at what I hoped to achieve and see we're already there with a few things :cool: We can sort of tick off one, Polo has competed in Restricted Retrieving for one weekend and at his first ever go won the stake!! Although we've been in the Open obedience ring a cuople of times now, no joy there... and the agility is non-existent so far I am absolutely thrilled that I can tick off the RRD Title!!!! The day after Polo's win, Rogan won his third restricted stake for his title. He is now officially retired from retrieving. We can also tick off the SPDM We are now over half way to the GDM but it's still looking like a long way off :D He's also had a very consistent start to the year UD training is under way.... slowly Tick Tick

Tiggy, if you're new to both sports you may want to concentrate on one at a time for a while. With my first trialing dog I basically did obedience with him until he was old enough to start agility at the club, then dropped that for a while and did agility. The obediece gave him good foundations for things in agility like start line stays and focus. After training him agility, we had much better body language awareness which helped immensely in obedience. I did not have major issues with the left and right thing. My younger Vizsla started agility foundations the same time as obedience foundations and never had an issue with heeling on the left and workig both sides in agility. As for the distance thing... my youngest boy heals nearly in my pocket and also works in retrieving 100+ metres away from me (taking directions). IMO there are enough other cues to the dog about the differences of the sports that with a little work, there really isn't an issue with doing both (or more) sports. Do you want to do both? Do you have time?

It certainly is possible to train and trial in both obedience and agility at the same time, if you have the time and dedication. My Vizsla boys have trialed in agility and obedience together (as well as retrieving and showing with the younger). It's a personal choice and as Kavik said some people prefer to concentrate on one at a time, at least the initial training of. With my young GSP we haven't really started agility yet, concentrating on obedience and retrieving for the moment. He is the first dog that I"ve really enjoyed obedience with though.

Wow!! Congratulations :D That is fantastic Spotted Devil. I've never made it to Benalla trials, but they would have to be some of the (if not the) most competitive Novice and Restricted stakes. I heard my friend placed 4th today and yesterday in Novice with he Goldie (not sure about Friday). And to get though restricted with so little training! Good on you. Having finally achieved an RRD on my Vizsla just a couple of weekends ago, going into his 4th season in the class, I know how much work can go into it ;)

On several occasions now I have been clicking away only to discover the 'no CF card' display!! Even when I had two cards I now have a third and always double check when leaving with the camera that there's at least one in the bag!!!!

A step in electric fenec post will do the job then :nahnah: Available at rural supply or even stock feed supply stores! Mine look like this without the 'pig tail' at the top:

I use an electric fence post with bright surveyors tape tied to it. Do you need the actual flag, or just a marker?

He's losing his shorts!! Great photo. I don't know of anywhere that regularly does dock diving. I know years ago now they had some event I think Purina put on that did have dock diving, a friends Lab 'won' it I believe. My Polo would love it!!

If owned a dog that I soley did obedience with and someone asked if I had a 'working dog', I'd say no, but I work my dog in Obedience. I regard obedience as 'work' but it in no way proves the ability of a dog being able to do what it was originally bred for. I have gundogs that I compete in retrieving trials and still would not say they are 'working dogs' because I do not (or very rarely) hunt over them.

See, to me they are two different things (as far as terminology is concerned). It might sound as though I'm being anal, but I've noticed so much lately that some words are attracting different meanings and it makes it difficult (ie lengthy) to explain with the written word what one means. "Jackpot" to me is the giving of treats (small) one after another after another in quick succession. The instance where you might have a chicken wing or some such is not IMO "jackpotting" (in the training terminology sense) but is simply rewarding with a higher value food treat. Erny, I do see them as different things, but not sure what terminology I'd use. When I use I different reward (I'm not sure it's higher value, they go ape for the lunch meat I use, but they are guts :rolleyes: ) I break away training completely, leave the ring and reward. When I give multiple small treats it may be in the ring, and training may continue.

I guess I do both. If I'm jackpotting with the same treats I'm training with, I will give multiple treats one after the other. If I'm jackpotting with something different and 'special' I'll give it all at once because it's probably a chicken wing or a small tin of cat food. Either way, the time to consume the jackpot is longer than the normal treat, and I think if I gave a handful of training treats they would be gone almost as quick as one treat (yes, I have vacuum dogs). It's probably more for my benefit but I want the jackpot to last noticably longer than a normal treat. I have heard that some trainers are now saying jackpotting doesn't 'work', but it does make me feel good :rolleyes:

Another one here who uses the Bayer Clean Ear Solution, because that's what my vets had. So far, it's doing a good job and smells a lot 'nicer' than epiotic.

Thanks guys, I do actually want a bigger zoom :rolleyes: Not just for agility I guess, but for other dogs sports where the dogs are further away but still moving fast. Like I said, I'm dreaming anyway.

Ooh, I was eyeing off this lens recently. You say it's a little slower to focus, would it not be suitable for dog agility photo's then? I'm just dreaming anyway, $2300 is out of my reach

If the dog enters the poles incorrectly in ANKC the dog will be called for a refusal (and incur a fault in most cases). If a dog does another piece of equipment on course without correcting a refusal they will be DQ'd, as it's an obstacle out of order. Goes for any piece of equipment. The reason it might be important to know it's a refusal is for certain games, where there are 'no refusals', so correcting the dog will not incur a fault. The 2x2 method is certainly not the only way to teach correct entries, from all sorts of angles.

Now, this is what you want to test a sit stay!! Rogan only moved when he was physically no longer capable of holding the sit!! Although I'd never go to that length on purpose to proof a stay, I was impressed

I do train with dogs in both sits and downs, not as 'formal' as one up, one down, one up etc. I'm like you, I count I had a chronic sit stay problem with my older Vizsla in Open. The first pass he finally got was when he was watching a magpie in the ring the entire sit stay. Having something to interest him certainly did help. I think you need to proof, but also need to train in 'ideal' trial conditions, nothing else going on