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I am so proud of my young coolie Gabby she is only 2.5 years old and she got her JDO title today and two legs towards her AG CH We are working on her ADM so hopefully that will be around the corner and getting some passes. Were also working towards her OC which we have one leg and hopefully next weekend will be another. I am so proud of her well done to Rivsky and her sister as well

Congratulations to all the other people over the weekend with there passes

A huge congratulations to you and Pebbles and now onto open the fun stuff

Congratulations TerraNik and Jedi. What a huge buzz :cool: :D :D

Gee my dogs have been good only my kelpie we were having last night toilet stop before bed at a country trial and my three dogs were stretching there legs and my kelpie ran straight into my legs and full gallop and I was on the ground. I thought I had broken my leg I was in so much pain. Had lovely colours on my legs though.

Congratulations Zug Zug see no problems at least it stopped raining though

Congratulations on everyones brags but I have one of my own from last night. Am so proud of them. Young Gabby won her UD class with 196 that is her first leg towards her OC Inka managed to do her stays in open and won her class with 193. Was lucky to have her in the ring as we had a big hot spot that we have cleared up but we are very sensitive to the back error and was thinking that we would blow the SFE only lost 2 points though. Xena has a wow of time in open and got 197 but lost one point for her barking so went down to 196 with first place and won ud with 184 she was the only one to pass and so 4 out of 4 100% success rate and all with first places Yes those love little possums they were running around the trees and the road pesky little things have to say they were very brave to show up in front of all those dogs See what happens next weekend at least there wont be any possums there

Congratulations guys on your passes and to Caffy on your ud title. I would be telling the world that would have to be the quietest one I have seen ;) well done now of too OC

WOOHOO Zug Zug , knew you would have placed but wasn't sure where, told you I wasn't putting up with any crap from you , HUGE congrats . Well RubyStar it's like this Pebbles has an idiot for a handler , in the sit stay the steward said "leave your dogs" & I rushed the stay cue, poor Pebbles didn't know what I wanted & went down as soon as I stepped away , ah well next time. Then to top it all of I found a lamb on the side of the road on the way home, picked him up & he was very dehydrated, we got some milk into him but unfortunately he didn't make it . Oh almost forgot, YAY ZUG ZUG your a bl...y champion ;) ;) bet you'll be still smiling in 2 weeks at the next trial . A huge congratulations to ZUG ZUG told ya there was nothing too worry about. Bad luck Dova (Bl...dy sit stays) dont know which is worse laying down in novice where you can see it or sit stays in open when you dont know what is happening. see ya next trial lol

oops forgot to add good luck to Zug Zug as well

Hi Dove wont be seeing you at Gawler have to work. Still dont have computer. The only difference in Open A and B is that B is non titled open that is dogs that dont have there CDX title and Open A is for dogs that have there CDX title which is for titled dogs. Good luck for Saturday night going to be a hot one

I'm going over there as well. We will be competing the weekend before. there will be 4 of us girls. Xena will be retired but Inka and my young coolie Gabby doing her very first Nationals will be there. Cant wait. 3 of us are old hands were there the last time lol. Cant wait count downing now. We will be driving over will probably take a couple of days will be working out things this weekend

I only have done straight line and a cross, cirlce and thrown them all over the place with her at the moment. She sniffs all of them till she gets the smelly one. I havent done a real lot. I still have to train the seekback she does the positions heelwork in motion brilliantly.Do have to pull my finger out. Had a four day break and brain failure lol couldnt do no 2 first time but than did the 3 articles. Havent been out today as its raining and the girls all had a treatment so no running for them today hopefully tomorrow night I hope The articles are just put out with the tongs not the scented one. Also havent done all my exercises in one hit either

All of mine have been desexed except the Jack and that was the ex's dog and he refused. Thought it was very cruel but fine with the girls

I have had all girls and they all have wanted to please and got OC (4) AG CH (2) and have done 2 boys one a Jack Russell and spent all the time arguing. Girls all round

Hi Kallistar Well I went out again last night as it was cool about 8ish and i did 1,2,3 and she did it again so that is 3 in a row. Well now I have to find out if she does it at the dog club as this is done at the park without much distraction yeah!!!!!! The towels I dont touch at all and I use a different word altogether. Xena,Inka and Gabby knows the difference between the ud and udx. UD I use the word fetch which means you get the one that smells like me and the towels I use sniff which means to get somebody else's scent. The other people use the tongs to put the towels out and use another tong to put the scented towel on so they dont contaminated the towels and it has been working

Went out again this morning and bugger me dead she did it again did 2,3,1 only the no 1 she ran straight to it but found a smell. I am so rapt hopefully we have it in our head. see what happens not doing it tomorrow as we are expecting 40 degrees tomorrow darn. Also went out and did my articles and she did them brilliantly as well. Gabby is a funny dog I have to scent my articles before using them litteraly 5 minutes before using them and than she does them brilliantly if I dont she has problem with the wood article. Must get out my towels and start practicing them again lol

Yeah!!!!!! Dont know if it was a fluke went out tonight and she did all 3 perfectly Hopefully it has sunk in. Just had words before we started. Glad we didnt stuff up as we had one of those toy aeroplane running around in the sky and Gabby absolutely flipped out. The distance control is no problem she can do it in any order and doesnt move. She does it perfectly I had been playing this exercise as a puppy luring into position and clicking with me sitting on my backside.From the drop she stands without moving her front feet. She is heaps better than my border collie we are on our second year with that exercise I might add just do a little and than leave it for a couple of months but I have found out with Inka the border collie the drop and sit has to be hand signal and the stand verbal. This is going to be interesting to remember it when both Gabby and Xena it was verbal. Shall report again and see if we can get it first time lol

Hi Luvsablue I have three turn no1 close no2 heel no3 back. I have my hand straight out in the direction and I say fetch without moving my hand. I have experimented using different hand signals but she got more confused. I have noticed though (very naughty of me) have got exasperated and said gawd for a smart dog you can be dumb can teach you tricks in 5 min but you cant run in a straight line its just getting frustrating when I do it she does it straight away. So I dont know if she is doing it when I am starting to loose patience or what the story as she has done this quite a few times now. I have just been out tonight and yet again didnt do no 1 she locks into it runs 4-6 passes towards it and than goes off to no 2 was annoyed had my mumble and after that she has done all 3 articles did it twice. So I really cant work it out. My hand is usually by her right head she doesnt like me having my hand or body over her like ie hand on her left side. dont know if its a coolie thing Xena doesnt like it at all. Just keep on trying

I have Inka, Xena and Gabrielle in the past I have had Milo, Sheba, Sascha and Ingo

I havent taught her the seekback at all. She can easily do the heelwork in motion, the sit stand and drop without moving, the sendaways does them brilliantly. The towels we are learning and she has got the idea that she sniffs and gets the other scent and shes not confused with the ud scent work and she learnt that real quick its just this mulit retrieve urghhhhhhhhhhhh.So frustrating. I'll just keep on plodding along and eventually and hopefully that she'll get it . Once we get it I'll start teaching her the seekback. I've only been teaching her one exercise at the time. I dont know what I will do with the border collie though have to think how I am going to do it as she isnt as bright as Gabby so as I am having problems with her I hate to see what problems I will get with Inka. Xena I had the problem with the heelwork in motion she couldnt do the sit and when she did the sit she couldnt do the stand and than when we got that fixed she couldnt drop and when you think you had fixed all the problems it will come back to haunt me. We eventually got the title though. After one trial I did she decided she couldnt do the seekback. Xena has been retired from that now and we only do open and Ud so its only Gabby at the moment training for udx

forgot to put in like sh can pick up a coin and put it in a bottle and learnt that in 5 min.

Ok where to start. I did have problems with my other girl got it sorted and thought I would try something different. I had her looking at the article and clicking and feeding and did that for awhile and had the articles close and than sent her which was fine and slowly got the distance but that was when we did get unstuck a) we will get 1 and 3 but not 2 b) we dont do 1 and 3 but get no 2 but the other problem with her she cant run in a straight line for the retrieve she sort of bolts out more to the side a few steps so when I actually do no 2 she locks on bolts runs sideways a couple of steps and than ends up no 1. so than I tried to move more towards no 3 but still doing no2 she will run straight so I dont quite know when she runs straight or crooked. so I'm still working on it at the moment its the first stuff up and than we have been doing it correctly. Funny thing the other day when I was doing it my first dog that has got the title wanted to do it so I sent her out as they were both sitting there (I know naughty of me) Gabby barged Xena out the way to get the number 2. So we are slowly getting there. The frustrating thing is that she is a fast learner everything else she has picked up but this we havent but what I sort of wanted to know and I probably do know the answer to it but I am going to train my border collie and she isnt that smart so that was basically why I asked lol cheers for that though I'll just keep on plugging away lol

Hi Guys Thought I might try on here to see if there is any ideas in training the multi retrieve? different to what I have tried. We are getting there slowly but hopefully someone knows an easier way of training it as some people that I know that has been training it has been having problems even though they have trained there dogs to do gloves. Just thought it would make an interesting topic

Hey Dova What sleep it was NYE you dont sleep on NYE it's for partying. Such a beautiful night.