SparkyTansy

Ptolomy - sounds good!! Wazzat sorry to hear that I don't want a puppy, unless someone offered me an ES puppy of excellent breeding and conformation and UK lines, with no skin problems, and fairly clear history of HD however I am very excited that i'll get to see some newborn OES babies in a few weeks time!

Hi guys - gees you all talk a lot... been out of DOL for a weekend and it took me about half an hour to catch up!! Firstly congrats to all the titles and placings over the weekend! Love the pics fo Strauss he is one handsome little man! the ones of him with trixie are very cute Valley i hope lilly is better soon... Sorry i didn't make it down yesterday I needed to recover from the Gundog Club show the day before, plus i had to go to the football in the afternoon. Well on Thursday Ari struck again with some destruction and this weekend was a bit under the weather so I am guessing something she ate didn't agree with her!! She perked up by Saturday and I put her in the show but she wasn't herself and we bombed out in the ring (I don't mind at all losing to someone else but was more disappointed that seh wasn't happy with the judge going over her etc) I'm a bit worried now for the royal since she hasn't got a show until then, so i might have to enlist a few DOLers from monday night training to go over her when stacked to get her confidence back... I'm not going to get down to training tonight but next week we'll be there.

I just get them to first figure out what the clicker means... simple click treat instantly. wait til they are looking to you for the treat when they hear the click then start asking for behaviours. I started with "touch" with spartan. I taught Ari how to place her front legs for show training by using the clicker. We never got to the back feet though

Fantastic news

I wonder if it was the same goat!

both James and spartan have a theme tune that OH made up for them - it's very cute!! Spartan's goes: Spartan's a big big dog, a big big dog todaaaaaaaaaaay James' is He's a tiny jibba joooooo (he now has the nickname jibba because of this!) Both have specific arm motions and end in much excitment and cuddles!

If you do a search in the entire forum you'll find loads of info on crate training...there is no one way, imo it's dependant on the dog.

Is it a full moon Rach? i wonder if the person who takes your ACD will also take my weimaraner

I think that Open shows are extremely useful to both exhibitor and trainee judge. I entered a few in the early days of my showing career and I also entered one recently with the OES i handle because he had been playing up in the ring. It's a great way to sort out or practice in a more relaxed environment. The one serious Open show I always attend is the one our breed club does. it's a pointscore for our club and not only that but effort goes into finding someone who is interested in the breed who is training for group 5. Last year we had a judge who was once involved in the breed, and the RUIS win was extremely valuable to us, and we were up against the regular OES competition. However, I don't list the open show wins.. i don't think *runs to check*

I really love corgi's and I think they make the cutest babies also. I fell in love with Cardigan corgi's when i was younger but I have found the pembrokes growing on me also. i am just about over my dogs today... well... just the grey one. the spotty boys are angels in comparison.

I have been reading this with interest and I am glad to read the news. Please keep this topic alive and post if there is a requirement for action from ANKC members to continue to protest to the ANKC regarding this rule. I support these titles... anyone who doesn't is ignorant about what they mean.

Bummer RS!! I have fridays off we could have done something!! but tomorrow definitely not!! Photos of james.. i dont have many left because i lost a lot of my photos when my OH accidentally threw out our old computer without me taking off the photos first... so i only have the ones on Photobucket left :D Not puppy but this onei s cute I also have NO cute ones of Ari as a puppy... but i do have a really cute on of my Tansy girl born in 1992

Hmmm RS want to put this next to the photo of the lab and the aussie? :D just kidding!! although pretty hard to resist! Just found the most stunning photo of an ES working...

want to talk about Fail amypie? I couldn't even teach spartan to shake, nor James... they jsut never got the concept!! James barely knows sit (well, he knows it just that he chooses when to do it). Ari can do most of it but when food is on offer she overdoes behaviours and keeps offering different ones in order to get the food... for example... i taught her "paw" then I taught her "other one"... she now does both at the same time in the hope of getting the treat faster, and she does this in combination with a "drop" just in case i ask her for that behaviour as well. So.. Ari's trick is prempting what I ask her

ok first of all R&S i think you should teach ruby bang bang (you know where you do the shoot gun hand signal and then fall flat on their backs) I loe that one!! Secondly i've been inspired with obedience and even though Ari sux at the moment and Spartan has a fair few bad habits, i am determined to get up to par with my training... does anyone have any good books that really help the beginner with healing close, non-sloppy sits, focus exercises etc?

Meh - you can do the monies then

yep the bbq is on again valley feel free to hang out there and "help"

Yep that's the one Chase such a beautiful boy I remember at one stage when he was still being shown he took a liking to Ari @Valley :D

I hope someone saves him what a beautiful story. Would be nice if this one reached as many of the readers of the "bad" stories.

Dougal would be a good dog to try Maizey with if you wanted to. There was a lady at Tracking who had a DA Wei, and she used to love me bringing Dougal over as she said his body language was very non threatening and she was trying to get her dog to realise not to react to every dog that walks past. GR is that Chase? Jenni (i think) has done a really good job with him...

Oh I like Aylah a pretty name for a very pretty aussie - Congrats!! I go through all the dogs names, occasionally, including past dogs and dogs i don't own!!

We do pay our light money tiggy, but they only put the lights on for the areas where lots of people train... i guess they have to pay per light or something? anyway, it's no big deal. In fact Valley I liked where we were last night heaps better... a bit more room to play at drooled out - poor spart...

Plus we train in semi darkness

The person who draws out spartan had better bring a towel or get over the drool

This is an excellent link to the different types of movements... Linky here Just to note, a pace and an amble are not the same thing. An amble is a desired movement in Old English Sheepdogs, for example, but it is only really seen well during transition between a walk and a trot. They believe that pacing is an acceptable movement in the breed due to the nature of their work (droving at the rear of the sheep for very long distances requires a less strenuous gait) You can definitely feel the difference between a correct trot and a pace through the lead. My Weimaraner has been known to pace and for her i have found that it is mostly due to laziness, but there are some dogs out there that pace due to incorrect conformation, as Poodlefan has explained.