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One more sleep!

I love the name Elka, sucks to be the U litter.

Yep, she flies in on Friday afternoon!! :D Counting down for this will take several days off counting down my cast removal, then if you post daily photos that will be another distraction for me. What's her name and what are you going to call her?

Not long now, I'm so excited for you.

IMO = in my opinion.:D

I love it, very clever PF.

Crate games.

Mia is a clicker trainer.

Yes, aren't they both awesome:) ETA, it's not walking it's heeling:)

I love Acacia Lodge but she doesn't take many dogs and may be already booked out.

Mine must be a mythical beast. Start crate games the day you get your puppy.

Well maybe me.

He's two and half now and nothing is spastic:)

Well you might be... more than you think I'm also a beleiver of fate, it all happens for a reason.

I wasn't ready for my Mal, never wanted, thought or dreamed I would own one, he is the best dog ever:) I like the saying 'you get the dog you need' Probably not helping you decide:)

Yay, go the WA girls and dogs:)

Hope the handler got some bubbly celebrations:) Great work and huge congrats.

The training club should help you to acheive this, if they can't help, find another club.

I get your point, and you are correct, but needs to have lots of value of the game/reward, reward history, consistency of markers and bridge words, and faith of a reward. Easy!

But you should have a bridge word/words to get from the ring to the dogs reward. Your dog should have faith that you will always provide the reward through reward history.:D

Tugging heaps with lots of dogs stops you from getting bingo wings.

Congrats Sandi & Deb and the dogs.

Would the pending payment be for you to register them with your council? You pay the vet to microchip them not to register them with council.

Yay, and good for you and your dog

I hope you haven't asked that question with sarcasm, I hope I expressed that any dog can be better with drive training. Dogs do what works for them, whether that is a reward or avoiding a correction. I believe if you don't want to use drive your only other option is using adversives to get what you want, I guess it depends on what you think is acceptable. I do not want to use corrections for my dogs to play my silly obedience game, i want to pay them well for my game by offering the best fun for them. Of course this varys with often self rewarding work like herding and sometimes agility or retreiving..