Video diary

I have spent today (well a bit of it) going through Hex's training videos so I could clearly see where he is progressing, where I needed to work on etc..... I found this really useful as I often don't feel I get what I could out of him (and yes I know it's early days yet), but there are obvious areas I must put a bit more into (lots actually!), the problem is I am only getting once a week for 1 hour to train him, my classes are packed and so only get to do any agility with him on Tuesday nights at Nancy's (and don't get me wrong this is great, but just feel I need to put a bit more in). The areas that are showing up a lot (to me) at the moment are.....

• Contacts- all three are not (I would say quick enough but it is more than that) confident enough. He scuttles rather than strides across.


• Snakes-did the second one ever last week......NOT PRETTY!


• distance work

Well that is more than enough to be getting on with! As well as that there is the general training, weave entries etc. Whilst doing all that I also want to make sure I don't let down Herbie, we have Crufts and the Europeans qualifiers soon, and I'm determined to get "a tune" out of Murphy this year!!!!! So a lot to work on.


Any way after watching all those vids I decided to make a compilation of bits so I could compare them quickly, it seems he is coming on OK, I'm sure we will get there (just maybe slowly!)


Here goes.....

This Video is of a friend and her dog Molly (she is a fantastic working lab). This was their first fun show, and since this (4 days ago) she has gone away worked on her weaves (which she now does) and taught her a nose target to help her contacts.....WELL DONE x

Lastly I wanted to mention my new puppy group I'm teaching. I felt very honoured when Nancy asked me to take their new puppy class (as she is training Zeki in it).... It is a great group that comprises of.....

• Mist-BC
• Breeze-WSD
• Indi-WSD
• Shadow-BC
• Zeki-Sheltie

and soon to have Sara and Poppy the boxer as well (get your running legs on!)

We work on all the foundation work for agility IE balance, control and coordination (see Nancy's blog for clips. They are a great group, extremely motivated, fun and willing. Keep it up!

ha ha...

Lisa just informed me she "CAN NOT" use the 5th folders, 5th picture (very unsuitable!!!!!) ha ha ha ha........

Any way here are a couple more pictures of things that I like....or mean a lot to me.

This is the first oil painting i ever did (just quite like it).....

These are things that my mum made me..... The first is a wire work sculpture of a cowboy roping a cow, it is set on a cactus arm that is over 100 years old......

The next things are 2 stones that mum found on a beach she could see what they should be.......here is what she made them into.......

This is our house name plate that I made.....

oops now i have to tag?

So I guess i tag....
Char.... http://summerick.blogspot.com/
Grace...http://my-malinois.blogspot.com/
Lisa...http://zindelijkbsds.blogspot.com/
paula...http://whichwaynowtomtom.blogspot.com/
amanda....http://mandsmutts.blogspot.com/

Sorry you lot... hereis what you need to do.....
Open a document or file folderClick on the fifth folder and then the fifth photoPost the photo and describe itThen tag 5 other bloggers

So the tagging got me thinking!

Well at least it got me looking! I found some pics that i really love or hold special memories for me.... so purely from a self indulgence point of view here they are!

This is our bedroom before Jay and my dad ripped it out.......

this is our bedroom after!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!


This is the jetty on to Lankayan Island where we spent some of our honeymoon.

This picture is the whole of Lankayan Island........

Although this is a little hard to see if you open it up to it's full size you can see the sharks swimming in sea surrounding the island......Yes we did swim with them!!!!

This was the first night of our honeymoon, we had just arrived in Borneo and were both sooo tiered after the long flight!

This is my favorite wedding picture...It has all our families in it and we had bubbles not confetti, i think it looks so great!

Getting tagged???!!!

So Nancy tagged me (and i didn't know what she was on about!!!! But found out...)

This is our picture...Stihl at 8 weeks. Firstly it made me laugh as everybody else has old pictures or ones of family, me I have a dog! what a surprise!!!!

Any way what a cute picture it is, she almost looks good in this picture, but even in that she has a slight devilish look!

The First show!!!!!

Was really not sure how this would go, or even to do it as we are still having very off days....but anyway we went and we tried and this is what happened........