RubyStar

If he's young, buff and topless, I'm coming to your place to train

Yeah I had an oatmeal shampoo and it didn't lather and didn't smell nice so I think I'm ditching that one

A larger property to have a training yard that has luscious flat green grass to train on (and to be cared for by a gardener), and a pool for them, too (also to be cared for by someone). The training yard would have competition size agility equipment, and large enough to also set up an obedience ring next to the agility ring.

I bathed my dogs on the weekend (in an effort to aid stripping out all Millie's dead coat) and they both smell deeeeeeeelicous!!!! Not only that but they are soft and shiny and so smooth, and still smell purdy like the shampoo after a couple of days. My mum bought some new shampoo for Pippa that I used so now I am going to have to get me some for my girls. Not an expensive shampoo and I'm sure those in the know might not like it, but it certainly gets a thumbs up from me It's called Fido's Everyday Shampoo (and is soap free - I'm guessing that is a good thing?). It lathers up really well, I was impressed, so I didn't have to use heaps on them. I'm going to order some from here so if anyone wants to combine an order with me to share shipping let me know I could even smell the girls in the back of the car last night as opposed to my usual car smell so maybe I've been convinced afterall to start bathing them more regularly

Ruby - A UD pass :crossfingers: - RN title - JDM title - Be ADX ready at some point - SPD / SD / GD titles - Enter some retrieving trials and she brings me at least 1 bird back! Might have to save the QND title for another year, or a future dog! Millie - RN title - JDX title - ADX title - SPD / SD / GD titles - Be UD ready at some point All this is dependent on how many trials I actually make it to. I plan on focusing on the retrieving mainly during winter so might not make it to many obedience/agility trials. So those titles/passes are really stretching it!

I think the fact that she managed any training, let alone trials and titles, with her super year is impressive!! Go Doctor Nik, you rock!!

Thanks Along with everything else that happened I'm bummed that we didn't get to finish our round! Will have to borrow you and Ptolomy next week to run us through some more pretty please. I was really chuffed with Ruby's box! :D Shame that she decided not to do the jumps when she got them perfect only the night before

Congrats CleoJ and amypie on your titles!! Well done TO on your successes, too! No passes for us in agility tonight but a few close runs for Ruby. She popped out of the weaves but managed a pretty tough and lengthy distance challenge in Open Jumping, so close!!! Even closer was her debut Masters Jumping run. She knocked the last freakin' bar!! It was 100% my fault, I slowed down and she did too, getting half over it then looking back at me ready to run to me with her happy face on like she does at the end of a course! I couldn't help but laugh!! No passes for Millie either but she is running with speed and enthusiasm so I'm pretty chuffed!! :D

Yes Rusky I only have myself to blame. I usually do lock my car, and for some reason, tonight was the night when I let my guard down and for some reason just didn't lock it, more fool me. Looks like I got what I deserved! I even warned my mum about not taking valuables down to K9 when she was about to head out the door with her handbag to head to training. It's just one of those things that happens and the thieves must've had a sixth sense about this being the time my car not being locked, and knowing my 1 week old pretty phone was in there all alone I know I have myself to blame but it doesn't make it feel less shitty. I'm off to the Virgin Mobile store shortly to sort out a new sim. I feel so naked without a phone on me! It's like I'm missing a limb!

Thanks ST. Once I figure out what I am doing phone replacement wise, I am going to contact my home&contents insurance mob and add my phone to it. When I took the policy out, I had nothing worth covering like this (except my laptop, but it's a few years old and ready for an upgrade anyway so not worth covering).

So they don't seem afraid of dogs then.... Not that anyone would be afraid of Ruby she has a friendly face if its any consolation the cops probably will catch them and they will get punished. I'm just going to have to suck it up and buy a new one, and kick myself forever for not being careful enough.

Yes, Ruby was.

Yes I think she did. So, does anyone need a kidney? I have one for sale. Might have other body parts for sale too if I don't get enough for the kidney to replace my phone. I'm glad I backed up all my photos when I swapped my phone to the new one so I haven't lost all my precious photos of my girls!!!!!

Yes, a woman saw them. A man and his son. She saw them coming downstairs from the bar and looking very out of place, and yep, the bar had cash stolen. She also saw them walking down near our cars and never said anything. If you don't want to approach them yourselves, even just to ask if you can help them to maybe scare them off, at least alert others and call the police to report suspicious activity. She stood by and did NOTHING and quite a few people got hit.

Don't panic guys, my precious girls are fine which is the most important thing xx My BRAND NEW 1 week old iphone was stolen out of my car by a couple of LOW LIFE SCUMS that don't deserve to be breathing. Lucky me. I have a 2 year contract of paying off a phone I don't have and can't use. None of my insurance policies will cover my phone, and I have to find me $800 to buy me a new phone because I am not going to let these bastards make me settle for continuing to use my piece of crap phone. I very rarely buy myself nice new things, money always gets spent on the dogs (treatments, medications, training gear, toys, etc etc) and the minute I decide to spoil myself for once (because who else is going to spoil me?) these bastards come along and take it from me :cry:

I've held out and haven't done my first order yet I'm currently culling! But for some reason all I can find to cull are the cheap items like clickers and pvc end caps! I have no problem spending on the dogs but the second I wan to buy something for me (like clothes!) I decide it's too expensive and I can't afford it I can't believe PVC and those stick in the ground weaves is on free shipping! Not that I want/need any, but I'm just surprised is all as they are an awkward shape to post.

I like the sound/look of it for games to play with Pippa and her agility. She's being pretty good about finding it fun to chase me. Hope she doesn't hit the teenage stage and give me the middle finger! If she gets slightly distracted I just take off running in the other direction and she comes running after me, too cute

I think it's cute, and you're getting reliable contacts!

Looks good!!

I have to laugh at Trixie's contacts, I noticed even in a trial she nose touches the ground I might play with nose touches for Pippa on a target, too, but will definitely do some rear end awareness. I started her on a little book thing on the floor to get her to place her front feet on it so I could then progress to doing turns on it with her back feet. I might keep doing this but will also shape her to target it with her back feet.

Ta, I'll have a play with it. I never taught a proper contact behaviour with my girls. Ruby's is pretty much non-existent (thanks to her dogwalk phobias, I decided a contact was the least of my worries while I was actually trying to build her confidence up enough to get her over the damn thing! Throwing an isqueak helped but abolished any chance of a contact). Millie knows to stop somewhere on the end. If I keep running and turn around and look at her, she plonks her bum on the down plank at whichever point it is that I turn and look at her! She knows her A-Frame contact and I can keep running and she sticks that (well, in training, haven't yet tested it in a trial!) but the dogwalk contact needs some serious work! So I'll have a play around with her and Pippa (not concerned about Ruby at this point, we may not play in agility much anymore anyway).

When I watched your run I thought it was a refusal. When you got a Q card I was surprised (but pleased for you!) That particular judge is quite leanient so I am not surprised he didn't call it. I had Ruby run past the weaves (not parallel to them though) to say hello to that judge, called her back, put her through them and the only thing she got pinged for on that course was a missed A-Frame contact and a knocked bar. No refusals. He tends to be quite leanient with weaves I've noticed, especially to novice people. I can't remember exactly what happened but I saw someone stuff their start up, and he actually let them go back and start all over again, incurring no penalty. I've had another judge not call Millie a refusal for approaching a jump and me calling her back to get her over it properly, while I did something similar approaching a broad jump once (she hadn't passed it yet) and the judge warned me that some judges would call me up on doing that. So much variation when we have rules in place

From my understanding - if you miss a jump, it is a DQ because you went off course. If you miss a jump and go back and redo it (and the dog hasn't taken another jump or obstacle instead causing it to DQ by going off course) then if you go back and do it it is a refusal/fault and you end up with a NQ. Because I don't have anything riding on it, I don't care if I DQ or NQ, to me it isn't a Q! So I will try to do whatever will keep my dog's motivation up If you go past a jump and continue onto the next obstacle and take that, then you're DQ'd. If you miss a jump/obstacle by passing the plain of that obstacle then technically it's a refusal and thus an NQ. You can go back and do that obstacle in correct order but you've still incurred the refusal. Not trying to be nitpicky, but isn't that what I said (in a roundabout kinda way)? If it didn't come across that way, it's what I was trying to describe, sorry Edit: just reread what I wrote and while I was trying to describe what you said, you described it so much clearer

I have no problem with using the term Labbies because it's not a word I use for that other thing - EVER ;)

Thanks caffy, that does make sense! Except for one part - is there any reason why you insisted he walk backwards and offer it that way once he knew it, opposed to running to it front on and then moving forward into the 2o/2o? After you have the dog offering back feet on the object, how would you then transfer that knowledge to them running say a plank on the ground and moving into the 2o/2o?