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So basically its just pick them up move them around the fence through a few items turn around walk them back and put them in the pen? OMG I have been stressing about this so bad lol so relieved now!! now i have to find Bodies number so i can enter him!!

surprisingly youtube doesnt seem to have much if any maybe im looking in the wrong way tho

Hi its been 4 years but i want to finish getting Bodies herding titles im a very visual learner, reading the requirements is doing SFA for my understanding of what i should be doing where i should be standing etc anyone have some pics or a video of the pretrial especially?

i LOVE diggers herding great guys very helpful and super convenient for sunbury they are right across from the kepala dog resort if that helps there is a beginners day on the 15th of May i believe will pm a contact number or message them on facebook

yup it is their driveway/gate is between the kepala entrance and exit gates im trying to talk 2tollers and my mum to take their dogs to kepala so i can car pool with them from ballarat!!

haha we should coordinate a visit same time to diggers herding!!! im waiting to see if he has a training day on the 22nd

A lot of the time your interest and excitement is directly related ie insane stupid noises and enthusiasm jumping around like a nut seems to help also take it away before he loses interest, i also reward a GIVE command to get it off my dogs mine are very into growling and shaking so i do the same

before the lolly snakes she sometimes used to check out the spectators for snacks hehe

yeah i was so happy he was into them from the start and he was watching them all day ... except when he was playing with the other puppies there today I was not sure about his markings when i first went to see him he looked like a little white rat at 2 weeks (we had been waiting for a litter from his sire) you cant see but his grey is spreading lol and he is getting spots on the white as well it will be interested how he ends up hehe he is 14 weeks now i think he is growing like an inch every night sometimes!!

Zee not quite understaning you want them together not split apart!!! Bodie was not impressed Zee and Dave very happy with him he was very keen and was even getting them together although that maybe more have been accidental than on purpose

not getting him to jump or anything like that just how to do turns correctly, i waited too long on my other dog and now cant train it out of him. he doesnt slam into the box like some dogs but its not as fluid a turn as i would have preferred. ok sorry going OT there was looking at options. so vasectomy wouldn't assist with any of the behavioural issues desexing is supposed to assist in just causes him to shoot blanks?

was just of interest i have not had a new dog in almost 7 years, and i will be doing flyball with my new boy, the bone density comment was of interest to me, i just had not come across that as a reason not to desex before

just out of interest whats the differance with vasectomy vs desexing (apart from the obvious) pros and cons i mean. I just have never heard vasectomy as an option before

when we are setting up he is loose playing with some of the other dogs i call and reward with tug and food, with him retrieving the ball to the tug also, and of course at home calling him from the horses lol and the kids to big rewards Actually i can see incoming embassment as his highest reward toy is... the cobweb broom he goes nuts for that

SOooooo her mums not a toller then?? ahha just kidding!! Sharon expects me to razz tollers. we have puppy jumps at club apparently but im not gonna bother for a few months but i will work on the box & ball from a distance before i worry about jumps and somewhere in there i have to make time to get him to herding training as well. As to him thinking he is a toller .. well Bodie used to im sure! as well with Todd being his best bud and mums 2 even tho they are not his *best friends* bodie is even friendly (as much as he gets) with Joys findlay, maybe he is just used to the color haha did you see the pic in photo's with my little girl? she has toller hair >.< when she lies on mums dogs she blends in LOL

Oh Nat poor Zee the main dogs he has been soicalizing with are all tollers >.< i almost took him to sharons when darcy was there but were were not sure how Bodie and darcy would be other wise Zee would have 5 toller mates hehe

yup i have been working on crate he sleeps in one and is really good in it, I'm alternating tying him up or crating him at training and he is usually about 3 meters from the dogs running he is settling down pretty well no crazy barking (as yet) im pushing his turns for now before i do recalls of any length or get a ball involved, I'm throwing the ball letting it stop and sending him then getting him ot go for the tug (bodie wont drop the freaking ball for the tug he just stops 2 meters from me drops the ball looks at it looks at me looks at it lol) im trying to avoid the ball fixation in Zee! Gonna try Julies *araound* thing she posted years ago around the witches hat then include the puppy board in that as we go, once he is solid using the board to turn i will work on the ball. i have been getting him used to the box unloaded for now, will start getting it to trigger as he turns soon. Just its better to avoid bad habits than trying to train him out of it, i cant get bodie to do a swimmers turn or go for the tug once he has a ball in his mouth

we are working on the puppy board to do turns and he is dropping the ball on retrieve for the tug anything else we should work on?

well this time im making sure the ball is not the freaking reward !!! once bodie has the ball its like la di da all the way back >.> so now its tug tug tug!! on another note .. what has sharon been eating!! and was she eating that while Darcy was visiting hehe

more progress e does much better away from home

2nd lesson!! working on the puppy board more puppy board McDonalds penguin lure!! Sharon doing my job for me .. did she fart? more Sharon thank you thank you he was really good about retrieving the ball even when it was stationary and raced back for the tug toy YAY!!

mine switch on while working but when we are inside watching TV or giving cuddles mostly they will do the couch potato thing .. or lie all over us

i have been supere slack i only usually turn up for teams training for flyball as until Bodie will give me the dumbell instead of spitting it at me i am stuck at obedience LOL once he can do that open here we come But Zee is doing puppy board and attention work at 11am with the flyball beginners, next week is our first puppy class!

lol My mum has tollers OMG the noise when they start carrying on you would think they were being murdered. i was holding one while she went to the toile today before her time in the trial and she started screeching in the toilet block because the door was shut .. talk about co-dependen

LOL Zee has see out cat moving in the dark outside gone charging up to the window barking seen his reflection in the window and scared the crap out of himself and run away screaming