Yoshi and Trek
Training Diary - Oct 2012

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Wed Oct 31
Yoshi Prozac Day 52
Happy Halloween
Yoshi morning walk. While he was pooping beside a parked car
(so he couldn't see across the street) a Lab walked by on the other
side of the street. He noticed the dog walking away and
growled a little, but not seriously.
Both Park Centre vets have agreed to be the go between for Yoshi and
Dr. Overall so now it's just up to me. It's going to be hard
to fill in the questionnaire effectively, but it would be good to
try. Then it's do I want to part with the money ($275 plus my
vets exam fee.)
Yoshi noon walk. Trek is a little put out by this, but I
promised her a walk amongst the younger ghouls who will be out and
about at 5:30.
Went over to the park. Lots of people activity and no
dogs. Argh. Not even in the park though we did see
Jasper who is Corgi Shelby's kid, so Yoshi got some nice scritches
from him. On Fountain he watched the mail carrier and then
barked at him as he walked by. I informed Yoshi again that
barking at the mail carrier is completely cliche'. The mail
guy was amused even though I don't think he heard the whole
thing. Driving back to work I saw a small dog being walked
over near the school. Yeah well.
Tue Oct 30
Yoshi Prozac Day 51
Yoshi noon walk. no dogs - this is driving me mad. Maybe
I should always just go over to the park but there's not enough time
at noon usually.
Trek evening walk. Two dogs who were on their front porch came
down to say hello. They were obviously friendly and I grabbed
one of the dog's collars to encourage them to go back to Mom who was
calling them. I did see one dog ahead of time so if I had
Yoshi I could have turned around. The house was at Central and
Mound, and the dogs were a black Tibetian Terrier (or close) and a
black Lab. Trek was ok, but not thrilled about all the
attention.
Yoshi evening walk. There was just enough daylight and I
decided to risk a raccoon encounter to see if we could find a dog or
two. We did. Went over to the school and kinda just hung
out across the street. As we were getting into position for an
approaching MalamuteX, a smallish black dog with a high tail set
crossed in front of us on the other side of the street. The
dog was staring back. No reaction from Yoshi save to ask for
cheese. i was surprised at that but as soon as we turned
around to look at the MalX he barked and tried to charge. Once
he hit the end of the leash, he came immediately back and asked for
a reward. I just talked to him for a bit and then rewarded him
for calming down.
i am not sure what to make of these two encounters.
Mon Oct 29
Yoshi Prozac Day 50
Yoshi morning walk - no dogs, lots of school kids, uneventful.
Driving to work I saw a lot of small dogs near the school so maybe i
should walk him over there more in the morning. The problem is
that I don't want dog drama around kids though no one takes Yoshi
that seriously unless he is charging at their dog. People are
strangely used to poorly behaved, barky, smaller dogs which is
unfortunate in a way. After the time change when I have to do
morning walks (they're more optional right now as I can squeeze in
an evening walk) maybe I'll walk Trek in the morning and Yoshi at
noon.
Sun Oct 28
Yoshi Prozac Day 49
Yoshi afternoon walk
He was up and kinda wired and being a sweivlehead, so I was
completely sure he was just going to lose it when he saw a dog.
Saw a couple of them retreating in the distance, but no reaction,
but he usually doesn't react to retreating dogs. Got half-way
down Central and hadn't seen any dogs so we turned around and went
over to Lincoln Park as there usually is always a dog walking
through eventually and the cool thing is that they are usually on
the main path and we can be lateral of it.
Nothing for a while then a small short coated tan dog. The
kind that he would always react to. I was armed with String
Cheese, and was 45' away (I later paced it off). Looked at the
dog looked to me for cheese. Then repeated it several times in
his best Look At That routine. Good boy. You could argue
that I'm requiring a behavior first, but not really he just has to
see the dog. If I feed him first he might not even look at
anything. Even Pavlov's dogs had to hear the bell first.
Later we saw a slow moving Yellow Lab who was just walking and
sniffing and clearly no threat to anyone. This time we walked
straight at the approaching dog then veered off just over 30' and
sat and watched the dog pass by. No reaction except "May I
have some cheese?" So maybe he is improving though then again
I can't tell if it's just because he's being managed well. In
the not too distant past he would look, eat, look, bark, and ask for
more cheese to the point that I was concerned that I had created a
behavior chain, but I'm not seeing that as much.
Of course as I write this he's racing up to the window
barking. I've been letting him have more access to the front
area since he's nine and I think he's earned it on the basis of age
alone. It's a tough decision as he seems to think the living
room window is an obligation, but it is useful to have him up there
to let folks know that Mr. Neighborhood Watch is on duty.
Trek afternoon walk
Also went over to the park to work on her Rally skills. It
would completely figure that there were people with balls in both
places we usually work and she was worries that one of them might
start bouncing. I really must teach her to play soccer so she
has better associations with them. So I dragged her over to
where the Monkey Tree is and fortunately there weren't any of the
scary fallen branches there (the "leaves" of a Monkey tree are sharp
and unpleasant.) She did very well heeling well including
figure 8s and 1-2-3 steps and sits. Moving and sitting stand
is working well. I didn't have her do back up since we do that
a lot and it seemed to be tempting fate near that tree. Once
we got away from the balls she worked well and I'm happy about
that. I still have to figure out if i want to work on the
expensive RAE title which is $500 minimum. She'll work on
Rally in both classes without that as a goal just to see if she has
a nice time.
Scary bit was that on our way back, my neighbors had a Black Lab off
leash outside there house with kids. I'm sure it's a visitor
dog but for a little while the dog was laying down in a position
where someone approaching wouldn't see the dog. Yoshi and I
walk by their house all the time and while I know I can handle most
situations with him, being surprised by an off leash dog is a little
unsettling even if the dog is completely friendly. I worry
more about Yoshi's reaction to an uncontrolled dog.
Sat Oct 27
Yoshi Prozac Day 48
Dogs had the day off while I went bike riding.
Fri Oct 26
Yoshi Prozac Day 47
Trek Obedience class with Lori.
Well she was less of a head case, but still worried about the door
comings and goings. She did very well in the heeling part and
stand for exam. Enjoyed the fetch part even though she was a
bit worried about some of the activity around the door.
Recalls she was almost auto finishing though I rarely sequence
them. For the stays she wound up beside a slightly squirrely
dog whose owner scolded her and Trek was worried about, so i pulled
her out of the line and had her do the stay in the middle of the
room. She was worried about the squeak of the baby gate so I
asked for it to be moved more so I could feed her a lot of cheese
while it was happening which actually may have helps.
The owner of squirrely dog came over later and apologized saying she
has had sensitive dogs in the past. I told her not to worry
since Trek was so touchy. She said that she'd like to make it
up to her next time. If it involves food Trek will like that.
Herding
Both dogs did well at herding today, save
for Dotty (that same goat) taking a swing at Yoshi and Linda and I
having to spent several minutes intervening since Yoshi doesn't
speak Measured Response. It was my fault because she was
crowding a gate that I had just taken them through and I brought
Yoshi in right into her face. I should have shoo'd the goats
away from the gate then let Yoshi through. Trouble is he
moves goats a lot better than I do. He does need to learn
that if a goat tries to butt him he can nip once, but he doesn't
need lose it and go charging around nipping and screaming and
terrifying the entire herd.
Trek is doing very well with the ducks She's racing up to
them much less and no crashing. These ducks are very well
behaved and they fetch to me which I now understand is not very
typical. The downside is I get used to these ones and then
we go somewhere else and things are different and my being in
front of the ducks makes them stop because they won't come to
me. I need to find some less well behaved ducks to work
occasionally. It's hard to go around asking "Hello, do you
have crazy ducks?" Michaelle has nice ducks, but they do
behave a little differently, so I should probably work with them
more.
Thu Oct 25
Yoshi Prozac Day 46
Yoshi walk uneventful
Trek evening walk.
Went over to Lincoln Park and did some Rally work. She's doing
very well: I'm thrilled
Wed Oct 24
Yoshi Proazc Day 45
Evening Yoshi Walk. While I was messing with some cheese
package he say a neighbor around the corner and her Boston
Terrier. Yoshi started to run towards them into the street and
hit the end of the leash though not hard and he wasn't acting his
usual weirds but he may have growled some. After he hit the
end of the leash I said something ineffectual like "Hey would you
knock it off." and he can back and reengaged asking for cheese. I
waited a moment and rewarded him. I hope I haven't created a
behavior chain with tug on the leash come back for cheese, but it's
nice to see him reconnecting.
So now we really need to work on impulse control. That
"Charge!" thing. I know Leslie would do more mat work and that
might work Yoshi is not as comfortable on a mat as her dogs
are. He's more of a crate dog, but he's crate reactive
too. He needs to be able to stay while other dogs walk
by. Parking lots with predictable dog traffic are good.
It's tricky as dog parks the dogs tend to come from various
directions. Maybe the hill above the Skyline Gate at Redwood
Regional.
Wrote to coltsrunkids:
45 days ago I put Yoshi on 5 mg of Prozac to see if it would help him
with his anxiety and it appears to be. He seems to be less of an
agoraphobic swivel-head, however he still doesn't adapt well to new
surroundings - he didn't want to work at all at the Corgi Nationals.
(Though that was before the magic 6 weeks.)
My goal is to get him in a better mental state so I can get further with
his impulse control as he's always wanted to charge unknown dogs. He
has a ton of training, but it gets canceled out sometimes when he goes
over threshold (usually when a dog is approaching), until I interrupt
his impulse with my voice or a leash pull and then he reconnects. I
want him to have better self control and years of training (and various
techniques) only get him so far with his brain chemistry fighting back.
He still is having impulse issues of course, but I'm hoping I can help
him see he has choices now. We'll still have to see and after 60 days
or so I have to consider whether it would benefit him to go up to 10mg.
Trek walk. She was very sniffy, but otherwise fine except for
some bouncing balls. Her Rally trial is this weekend so we
need to do some tune up training probably in Lincoln Park.
Tue Oct 23
Yoshi Prozac Day 44
Noon walk for Yoshi. No dogs. Argh. I need to get
a better idea on how he's doing. He does tense up when he sees
someone walking just a little oddly so he's still sensitive, but he
might be a little less stressed.
My goal for his adventure is to reduce his anxiety so that he can
respond like he's trained to do which he does try to most of the
time when his brain isn't derailed by an approaching "threat."
Agility class for Trek
Such a head case. I left her in the car for the lower field
and only brought her out for the upper field. She's just not a
happy camper here and I might just not take her back next
week. I had her run two courses on the upper field and she's
back to being hesitant about the dog walk but only going away from
her crate. Going towards her crate she's fine about it.
She's a bit barn sour when it comes to her crate and her car.
Ripley and I are doing better. Lynn's been working with him
and he's listening more and my timing is getting better. I
didn't write the courses down this time. Sharon is telling me
that he's a fast enough dog that I have to give him the signal and
then move and trust he's going to do it. I usually wait to see
what happens before moving.
Mon Oct 22
Yoshi Prozac Day 43
Uneventful walks for both dogs
Sun Oct 21
Yoshi Prozac Day 42 (the magic 6 weeks)
Took both dogs to the dog park. Yoshi went on a leashed walk
all the way across Washington Park. The cool thing about the
park is that the lateral distances are perfect. We saw a
couple of other dogs but we kept our distance so they were not an
issue.
Then we looked at dogs in the dog park parking lot which was most
challenging but as long as no one came close he was ok. He did
bark at a couple of Britnany's who had just gotten out of their car
but he then refocused.
It's been six weeks and I can't really tell if his behavior is all
that different, but he seems more relaxed. I think he's going
to stay at this dosage for 60 days and then consider increasing it
to 10mg.
Then Trek and I went into the park and walked around and played
fetch some with her dumbbell until a Lab stole it for a little
while. Then she wasn't interested in a slobbered toy - she'll
live.
Sat Oct 20
Yoshi Prozac Day 41
Day off for dogs.
Fri Oct 19
Yoshi Prozac Day 40
Blissfully uncomplicated walks for both dogs today
Thu Oct 18
Yoshi Prozac Day 39
Yoshi morning walk. Saw a lab briefly on Court. Y barked
and I tightened the leash and he immediately reengaged.
Did some nice attentive Rally work then continued on and then back
over on Gibbons we say another yellow lab. (Could have been
the same one). This time i had time to set up and Y sat and
watched the dog approach and go by with Yoshi looking at them and
looking back for a reward several times. Perfect.
Trek noontime. No time for a walk so we played with a small
frisbee in the yard. I'd love to get her catching them but for
now she lets it land and brings it back to me.
Evening: played more fetch with Trek.
Wed Oct 17
Yoshi Prozac Day 38
Yoshi noon walk. Saw Max the young Corgi who is kinda still a
puppy. We let them sniff noses a couple of times and then Y
and I crossed the street and we parallel walked down Court which
worked well. Then later on Gibbons, we saw a very well behaved
Golden who wasn't moving that fast. We watched them approach
and right as they were passing we moved on. Quite successful.
Trek walk. She was way sniffy. Did some right side
heeling for amusement.
Tue Oct 16
Yoshi Prozac Day 37
Our neighbor's cat was hanging out on our stone barbeque which would
have been fine if kitty hadn't decided to make an overland break for
it. Doggies were in hot pursuit Terri says. We're going
to have to train ourselves to look over there first.
Yoshi noon walk
on Court saw a slow moving Bully breed coming towards us so we
crossed the street and waited for them.
I had time to set up so I showed him the cheese and as he watched
the dog he asked for cheese. As the dog started to get closer
he started looking a little harder so I pulled a little on the leash
to get his attention and he immediately reconnected and was
rewarded. The dog went by without incident.
Trek walk. I wandered some as I am a little tired of her
dragging me home, but I can't fool her as she knows where she is,
but it was still a good walk. Introduced her to right hand
heeling.
Mon Oct 15
Yoshi Prozac Day 36
Yoshi noon walk
We just went around the school this time only saw one dog but it was
my neighbor and Annie and Yoshi has barked at her before so this was
perfect. They were across the street and Yoshi watched them
carefully until I finally said his name and he looked up to get some
cheese. We repeated that about 4 times before they were past
(I had him sitting and we moved on once they were passing.
Good boy. this is what drives me a little nuts. He can
hold it together under these circumstances but he tends to lose it
when doggy is closer, or bouncier, or weirder, or whatever.
Trek evening walk. I'm running out of Rally things to teach
her, so they need to invent more exercises before I start teaching
her weird things like walking between my legs or weaving around
them. Even her backing up is working now that I turn my
shoulders towards her some while backing up
when we got back I got some paper cups out and played a shell game
first with Yoshi and them with her. Her excitement for the
game grew over time and she really liked it when I switched from
cheese to the smellier kibble. Teaching her nose work is going
to be easy and I should just do it.
I read some here: http://www.dogstardaily.com/blogs/getting-started-nose-work
but she's almost past that and I don't have to restrain her I just
send her away some and have her lie down.
Sun Oct 14
Yoshi Prozac Day 35 (Week 5)
You'd think that 5 weeks of Prozac you'd start to see a difference
but not that much. The first few days were great but then I
think he got used to it or it was just a side effect. After 6
weeks if there is no obvious change then he's going up to 10mg which
will be another adjustment period though not as long.
Terri hadn't been giving him GABA for a while and I'm starting it
back up again.
Yoshi Bike run Washington Park
Right as I was tying my car key onto my shoe two small dogs appears
and Yoshi charged. I had already leashed him to me so it was
simple enough to pull him back, but it is distressing behavior for a
dog 5 weeks into Prozac. The person with the dog said "feisty"
in accented English and laughed. I said something like "No, he
was serious" but she had fortunately moved on.
Even more fortunately the rest of the time was very nice. No
incidents at all. When we saw a dog we just went the other
way. He is not as fast as he used to be and I'm dragging him
more than he was dragging me. We even watched the dog part for
a while after he had done some running. Went all the way
around once and then went back to watch the dog park.
Trek Walk - made it a bit longer this time and did some basic Rally
work. She pretty much knows everything and I am so tempted to
teach her something else, but maybe after Napa Valley which we have
entered. One possible glitch is her Stop then Down. The
more I work on it the more confusing things get. I should just
use a signal and the word Down. I was trying Lie Down but that
seems to be more confusing. I have taught her either pointing
to the ground or a raised hand. The raised hand works great
even though it's at a weird angle, and then she's not nosing at my
hand.
Sat Oct 13
Yoshi Prozac Day 34
I had to meet Joan at Pt Isabel to give her a chair and I had both
dogs with me. Let's just say that Yoshi was not at all happy
about Pt. Isabel and all this uncontrolled dog motion. We went
over to a mostly unoccupied hill well over on the edge of the park
and he just basically barked at any dog that came near except for
Joan's dogs who were very polite.
Fri Oct 12
Yoshi Prozac Day 33
Dogs herding
So Yoshi is going to be working goats for a while and Trek on
ducks. They each get a session. I'll do this for Oct and
Nov though since they have a trial coming up at the beginning of Dec
I might have to add sessions in Nov. the San Mateo Bridge is
going to be closed Fri-Sun for the rest of Oct so I'm debating
skipping the Oct. sessions. Getting back home in Friday
traffic over the SM bridge is enough of a chore, but to instead to
have to go over a doubly congested Dumbarton bridge just sounds
unfun. Maybe I should just drive all the way around and skip
the bridges.
Both dogs where on a long line with a harness and a carabiner with
the line around their body so if I pulled on it it would tighten
around their chest.
This worked great with Yoshi and less so with Trek who minded it
more. Eventually I did take it off of Trek.
Yoshi on goats. He really is improving on goats. He can
work them quietly. He is still much too close, but is calm so
they don't mind him so much. I stopped us all a couple of
times just to let him realize it's ok just to stop and relax which
he is only just beginning to understand.
Trek on ducks. Ms T. is still happy buzzing ducks. I
keep hoping this is a phase, but she's still doing it. She
needs to stop better at the top of turns. These ducks fetch
more which makes them easier to handle, but I have to readjust again
after getting used to the Washington Buff Ducks who don't fetch and
everything is driving.
Thu Oct 11
Yoshi Prozac Day 32
Yoshi noon walk. I needed to get back to work, so we went on a
blistering walk around the block. That block is actually about
3 blocks long, so it was surprisingly good exercise. Couple of
distant possible dog encounters that I chose to skip this time.
Trek evening walk. More leisurely but spirited. She
wanted to work (well, she wanted to eat more) so we did some Rally
work. Her heeling is looking great, a little forged, but, in
Rally, that doesn't matter nearly so much as in Obedience and what
was more important to me is her being happy doing it. Fronts,
finishes both directions. Moving Stand and recall, 1 step then
sit, 2 steps sit, 3 (etc) all looked great Worked on backing
up with my shoulders more turned to her. That works. She
is no longer shooting out away at an angle. A picky judge will
say that's not really heel position but it's a risk I'm willing to
take and the deduction for such a thing would be small (like 1
point), but that's not likely since I haven't been deducted for an
angled back up.
I think we're going to enter the Napa Valley rally trial at least
for the morning. We score better with the morning judge than
the afternoon judge. I need to figure out how many times I can
have the morning judge because she very often is the Rally judge.
Wed Oct 10
Yoshi Prozac Day 31
Yoshi walk. On Central a dog was approaching. I wanted
to see where things were so I waited on a corner for doggy to
approach. When they got within one house length and one street
width, Yoshi started to bark and kept barking as we did a BAT-style
retreat to just under a house length where he instantly stopped
barking and looked up for a treat. It was like we had crossed
an invisible fence into a safe zone. I counted my steps: 27
and they are about 2.5 feet each so around 67-68 feet which is right
around the distance that it's been before of 70'. I hope the
Prozac helps him with this as I am getting tired of it.
Dog was a young bully breed type. We did see them again and
let them pass us and Yoshi barked again, but less so this time.
Trek walk. A little longer this time as I took her all the way
down to Encinal before returning on Versailles. I'm still
greiving about her stopping agility which I remind myself was my
decision and I could always change my mind again though she's ok
either way though would rather not ever hear a teeter again.
In fact, for the the last two class sessions I'll leave her in the
car for the lower field part.
Tue Oct 9
Yoshi Prozac Day 30
Yoshi morning walk - just saw a lot of hurrying people.
Trek Agility Class. There are three more classes in this cycle
including tonight.
No Ripley tonight but he will come for the other two.
No class next week as Sharon is going to Germany for fun.
Sharon has a new teeter that is quieter, but it has a boom and Trek
hates it - sigh. She won't go near it though I dropped her on
it and fed her (but I didn't make her do anything on it.) This
is a bummer as she was used to Sharon's noisy teeter and in time
would get used to this one but there isn't time if I take her out of
class.
Upper Field she did pretty well on. Smoked the blue course in
particular.
Met Cameron and her BC puppy Scout.

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Orange course - it was ok - a bit short -
she was kinda slow
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Blue course - this course rocked.
Hustled and did a FC before the Dogwalk.
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Mon Oct 8
Yoshi Prozac Day 29
Yoshi Walk. We crossed the street and nearly walked into a
little fluffy white dog who objected to Yoshi trying to charge - I
saw Yoshi gathering up and was able to rein him in. Each of us
grabbed our dogs and I carried Yoshi past the dog's house.
Then we saw a Great Dane and parallel walked with the dog for a
little ways - Yoshi managed to mostly cope with that. I'm
hoping Yoshi's Prozac helps with this more when the full six weeks
is up. He may need to go to 10 mg (currently at 5mg).
Sun Oct 7
Yoshi Prozac Day 28
It's been 4 weeks and he still seems much the same as always.
One interesting thing was that Terri had the door open and the young
Mastiff appeared and Yoshi went for the window to bark and not the
open door (phew).
Dog walks went fine today. Trek's backing up looks
better. I'm wondering If I should turn my shoulders into her
more.
Kathy Sdao has a book out called Plenty of things are Free.
It's also as an ebook so I got in on my Nook in about 30 seconds
($10).
I sent her a friend request and explained that I was a fan from the
last time she was in SF. I also asked if she had any time for
a private consult for Yoshi while she's down here. I'm not
sure I want to pay $280 to go to clicker expo but I'll spend plenty
of money to see her.
Sat Oct 6
Yoshi Prozac Day 27
Yoshi and Trek dog walks. No issues, smelling Murphy's blood
didn't upset them this time. Murphy sadly did not survive
being hit by a car.
Fri Oct 5
Yoshi Prozac Day 26
I was hiking on Mt. Shasta sans doggies.
Thu Oct 4
Yoshi Prozac Day 25
What an odd experience. We had a neighbor's dog hit by a car (I
don't know how the dog is right now, but they whisked him off to
emergency yesterday.) His blood is on the sidewalk. This worried
Trek yesterday, but she coped. Yoshi came across the now hosed
off blood today on his walk and buried his nose in it and then
started barking to the air, then more sniffing, then more
barking. I just picked him up and carried him away. The dog
being hit is upsetting enough that I don't have any perspective
at all about what Mr. Y. might have been experiencing.
I'm leaving for Redding tonight to hike on Mt. Shasta Friday and
will be back on Sat.
Wed Oct 3
Yoshi Prozac Day 24
Yoshi walk. Saw a Sheltie right out of the door. He
wanted to charge so I just held him until he reconnected and then I
fed him some. The he was very up and excited. We crossed
the street for a running Bully breed he held it together for a
little while and then barked some. Pretty up for rest of the
walk though he reconnected once we reached Central. At Gibbons
there was someone standing there with a soft back on the
ground. Yoshi stared at it a long time and I let him to see
what he'd do. He finally moved on but kept suspiciously
looking back at it. If I didn't have to get to work I would
have let him go smell it.
Trek evening walk. Trek stopped in her tracks with her nose to
the ground and I learned the distressing news that my neighbor's dog
Murphy had run out into the street and was hit by a car and it was
his blood that Trek was smelling. They took him to emergency,
but I don't know his status right now. Trek and I found a
hedge and worked on backing up. The issue is that she likes to
look at me and that makes the backup go at an angle. So far we
haven't been dinged when this happens, but we haven't done it that
much. On the 1 step, sit, 2 steps, sit, and 3 etc I used to
say "By Me" to encourage her to sit but "Heel" works just fine and
it's less confusing as By Me means come and sit by me, not move with
me. In AKC I can just add sit if I need to (APDT would ding me
for a second command).
I met Paul a neighbor of mine who has two of the small Victorians
across the street, one of which is hidden by a tree.
I have to decide whether to enter her in the Napa Valley DTC Vallejo
Rally trial.
Tue Oct 2
Yoshi Prozac Day 23
Roasting hot today. I went home to walk a dog and it was
around 90 degrees so I decided not to.
Woodside is having an AHBA trial. Yahoo. I entered Trek
in HTD Ducks and Yoshi in HRD Goats I decided not to enter Yoshi in
ducks as the entry fees would have been 210 instead of $140, and
Yoshi might not have liked it - actually now that I think about it
he likely would have been fine with these ducks esp on the Herding
Trial Dog course.
Post to corgiherders
My dogs are going to be in their first AHBA trial (instead of a test),
and for Trek's duck course they'll be using an HTD (Herding Trial Dog -
I think) course which you can see here:
http://www.ahba-herding.org/htddiagrams.pdf and the description is here:
http://www.ahba-herding.org/MainPage.php?AreaName=HTDTrials
I was going over it and things looked familiar, so I looked at the AKC
Started Course B (in http://classic.akc.org/pdfs/rulebooks/RG9001.pdf)
and they are very, very similar. BUT! The long outrun that is in the
Started Course B isn't until Level III in AHBA's HTD, so if you have
access to AHBA competitions it would be a great way to get started on
doing Course B.
Yoshi on the other hand will be going back to goats and will be doing an
HRD (Herding Ranch Dog) course which is customized to the place it is
being held and usually is very fun. It won't be quite as creative as
the Pescadero trials which they had you take the stock out a couple of
gates over a bridge and round a few trees, but we do have to go out
around a dragon sculpture and go through a chute then a couple of gates
to go around the outside of one shed (though still enclosed by a fence)
through another gate and repen.
Trek Agility Class. Class is in the evening and it was still
hot, but bearable.
Ripley wasn't there so Trek did the whole class.
Lower field was a set of jumps in a circle and we worked on
serpentines which we're pretty good at so it was fun. Trek
also did a nice send out to a couple of tunnels and weaves and I was
able to get into position in time for a FC to more jumps. The
only bobble was at the beginning where I wasn't paying attention and
sent her over the wrong beginning jump.

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Orange Course.
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Blue Course.
Did our usual lateral DW but I muffed it up so it took 3
times to do it perfectly. Other wise it worked well.
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Mon Oct 1
Yoshi Prozac Day 22
Trek morning walk - just a quick one
Yoshi noon walk
Saw what looked like a Bull Mastiff (the smaller Mastiff) walking
down our street and then they went down Court. We watched them
from a couple of houses away. Yoshi was fine and then bark a
couple of times. The dog did look back at us but didn't
react. Besides that Yoshi was ok though he was very up as we
followed them from a distance.
Then on Central we were over taken by a thin, lithe black lab across
the street. Yoshi was perfect - just asked for cheese.
This dog was moving and had his/her tail up, but didn't look at us
at all.
I've been thinking about herding and I'm wondering if it's really
worth all the work. Competition opportunities are few and far
away. But the training keeps the dogs happy and relatively
sane. Maybe they can just do it twice a month. I have to
decide just how important is it that Trek gets her started
title. She can do it but the Corgi herding trial isn't until
April and it would be nice for her to have 2 Qs before that.
But I'm not familiar with the ducks at other locations except for
the frustrating ones at Vacaville. I think I should just give
up on the idea even though it was nice to have the judges say how
talented Trek was.
Both dogs are very talented at it, but I have to remember that
doesn't incur any obligation on my part.
Rally is much more accessible and more people I know are doing
it. Napa Valley is having a trial on Nov 3rd and I think I'll
check into it.
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