The Do Everything Dog

Foxy continues to be more and more fun. She officially is jumping off the dock...even though its only about a foot of distance. I have a feeling, she will quickly learn to jump further once the confidence kicks in with the drive! I was thrilled to see her brave out the scary drop.

Soooooo I think June 13-15 we might be going to Forth Worth to a Dock Dogs competition!!!! That is if I can find somewhere to stay. I am not paying $60 for a non refundable pet fee in a hotel, that is outrageous!!!

On to her video!



We start our agility classes as well too. Of course we will miss one if we do the Dock Dogs competition... but oh well, we can make it up! I havent done a lot of agility with her, but she seems to love it. I really think I need to focus more on having control out of her than going out there and doing the obstacles. I feel the control and the focus is the thing that is key with her. We will see how she does in her first lesson. Here are a couple of videos from a few weeks ago.







When she turns a year old, we are going to also join a disc dogs group and give it a try. She has been very great at catching the Chuck It from a run. Also herding is something we are going to try in the fall when it cools off.

I love having a dog that likes to do everything, rather than a dog that only likes to do one thing (cough cough, Yoshi and agility, cough cough!)

Hectic Times

well i wrote this big long blog and then i pressed publish, and it gave me an error code and it never saved the post as a draft...so i got screwed. I dont have time to write the whole thing out until later.. I have a LOT going on today. However, I was able to post on Yoshi's blog before it messed up! Have a great day everyone.

Stuff For Us To Do

I got the Strengthening the Performance Dog DVD yesterday and I have tons of ideas for both Foxy and Yoshi to really help them out. I am not sure if I am going to be able to do ALL of the exercises consistently, but I am going to try to do as many of them as possible. I will start updating on that when we get a program going. I need to write down the ones I can be very serious about, and get a schedule together.

I practiced walking with both dogs yesterday, I think I will be okay with both of them when I go to Brazos Bend with them and just me. I just have to keep Foxy on her Gentle Leader so it is a bit easier for me to have both dogs under perfect control.

I am planning on taking them (Foxy's second time and Yoshi's first time) on Monday...and possibly Saturday if I dont have to stay at the car show the whole time.

I am still over the top about agility starting back up for both of my kids in May. I was so scared that Yoshi might not ever get to run again..and now we are looking at starting back after his injury. Woohoo!

I really think Foxy is going to do great. I just need to learn to channel that energy into agility. =)

Other than that, not very many updates, it stormed today so I haven't been able to do too much. Yesterday was just me walking the dogs so it would have been a bit hard to try to take pictures.

Hopefully I will have the dogs' workout schedules together soon! I really need Yoshi in better shape than he is now. Though I think a lot of it is he needs to get his stamina back too..he gets tired easily!

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Foxy is doing great, but me not so much. I think I have made some major stupid decisions and now I gotta backtrack again. UGH UGH UGH!

The dogs are keeping me sane...thank the Lord for dogs.

Miss Foxy Pants and Her Adventures

Well we are starting her first set of agility classes in May so we are REALLY excited about that.

We are still having lots of fun though, she went to Brazos Bend State Park with me on Saturday and I got some pictures of our outings.

She was really worn out that day!! lol

I am really getting more and more impressed by her. She is showing a lot more self control and she is coming along. She has grown a lot as well. The rest of this post is going to be purely pictures and video.

Here are her Brazos Bend pictures:

LOL this was the only sign that said that...

Being a good girl!

Pretty flowers

Such a goof!

Scary gator!


Here's some ballpark pictures:

She really likes him!


Here's a gallery of clumsiness....which is SO funny..because two days after that she started catching her first frisbees...LOL

Sooooo

Foxy decided at the Splash Dogs practice session that she was *still* not wanting to jump off the big dock so we didnt even go to the competition. I knew that if she wouldnt jump off the dock in practice, she wouldnt do it in front of a hundred people watching her..it would probably send her over the top.

While we were at practice she really showed her evil side.... of wanting to jump out at every dog and person who got close because she wants to play. We are definitely having a hard time with controlling the urge to jump up on everything. She does NOT do it to me hardly ever.. she knows to respect me..its just now she needs to have manners with everyone else. I have a feeling that this will be a looooooong process with her. I ended up having to put the Gentle Leader on her as she was starting to be a total brat before I left. Anyways.. I think our next thing is just going to random places and having perfect manners.. I think getting her so bored with people walking by might be the ticket...I better bring a BIG book!

Her classes are going fine, but this week is the last bit of them..and so now we have to figure out where we are going to go from there. Last week, Rachel was not sure what to suggest to me. The next "basic" class she is giving is a CGC class and I am not going to push CGC on Foxy because the greeting part of it is going to be way too hard on her at this point. I have a feeling it is going to be a maturity thing and of course a training thing. So we arent going to do any CGC stuff yet. So hopefully by Wednesday night I will have a game plan for Foxy for the next few weeks. If not, we will have to take private lessons, but I really dont want to rely on those as they can be very expensive, and then I dont want her getting used to always being by herself in class.

Foxy Goes To Splash Dog Training!

So we drove the 80+ miles yesterday to a little town called Plantersville to do some Splash Dog training on a regulation dock! Well Foxy did not come close to wanting to jump off the dock, but we did get her to go from the exit ramp and into the "scary clear water!" It was definitely hard for a lot of dogs to get used to the pool water rather than pond water. Some wouldnt even go in from the exit ramp. I feel like after a few sessions, we might be going off the dock if we go once or twice a month. Dock Dogs is also going to start holding competitions there after this May... soooo we will be able to do a lot of competitions soon. And maybe by then, she will be ready! It was a lot of fun, and when she understood what was expected of her, the joy just lit up all over her face and I saw that "drive light" flash on. She would charge up those dock stairs when it was her turn!! I think she is really going to enjoy this sport!!! It will be a good extra thing to be involved with when we dont have agility going on =) Anyways..on with the video!