Sunday, February 28, 2010

Looking for Inspiration

 
Looking for Inspiration
I belong to a trick dog chat group on line.  I periodically browse the emails looking for new and exciting tricks to teach my girls.  Here are 4 links we found today.  The first one reminded me of a friends dog and the best part was the place the dog was working, totally noisy and distracting. Good Dog, Exercise Done!

This next one shows good restraint, I'm thinking of something similar for my 2. Not too sure about this one though there was a disclaimer at the end. I particularly liked the last part of this video, I think the trainer is wearing a helmet cam in the first part, makes it hard to see what their doing.

 

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Zoe-Mail

 
Zoe-Mail
While checking our e-mail today I found this link to a 8-month old puppy showing off it's freestyle training.  I was thrilled to see the amount of drive this little pup has. At the end of the video I followed this link to read more.  This fellow is one of the best trainers in the UK and appears regularly at the dog show of the year, Crufts, in the UK.  The rules for our Canadian version of their Heel to Music, which we call Canine Dressage, are slightly different, but the principals are basically the same.  Just look at the attention he gets from his dogs.  Striving to attain that goal myself.