Seminar Report and Duck Herding!

Hi everyone!

I had such a wonderful week! My mom took me to NJ for a Susan Salo seminar, and she learned a lot! She said she finally has the answer about how to teach me *how* to jump. Yay! I had fun. AND, she bought me and Caper a whole set of 12 weavepoles for ourselves!

Then on Saturday went went with my Auntie Barb and cousin Roo to see our friend Stacy Peardot-Goudy. We had a ton of fun and did lots of hard things. She told my mom she thought i had really improved from last time - hooray!

And then on Sunday, we went to my Auntie Lynn's house. While I was there I got to herd the ducks!! It was my first time herding them, though I got to meet them last time we were there. I had fun and mom said I was awesome. I can't wait to go again!! Here's a video of it:

Hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Woof!

ArthurGOOD!

A Seminar kind of week!

Hi everyone!

I am so excited! This week, mom is skipping some of her classes and taking me to New Jersey. I don't really care a lot about New Jersey but I am really excited about the trip because mom said I get to do Jumping at the seminar. In fact, that's what it's all about - just jumping! That's going to be all day on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with someone I never met before - I hope she's nice! Her name is Susan Salo.

Then on Saturday my mom is skipping work and she is taking me to see my good friend Stacy Peardot-Goudy who i have met 2 times before at the WAG'D Agility camp! I Love that camp, and Stacy is real fun, so I can't wait to see her again. PLUS, I think she got to see my brother Hi-Tek just on Saturday so I can't wait to see what she thought of him!

So, it's shaping up to be a real good week for me.

WOOF!
ArthurGOOD

ps - this is why she says she signed me up for the jumping seminar. I don't see a problem, do you?!

New Rescue Dogs

My mom brought home some new rescue dogs today but I didn't get to meet them yet!

She posted about one on the NEBCR blog: http://nebcr.org/blog/

Here's a couple pics of the others:

Big male:



Pretty Female:

The big male is my mom's foster dog but I can't meet him because he needs some work with his dog skills. The pretty female is being fostered by my Auntie Lynn! And the Little Guy is at my Grandpaw's house right now.

Woof!
ArthurGOOD!

Caper Agility Videos

Hey everyone! My mom took my sister Caper to an agility trial over New Year's Weekend and her friend is slowly uploading some video's in her spare time! So here are some for you to enjoy.

Caper's first run of the weekend was Jumper's. She had a good run but knocked one bar, which is rather unusual for her. Mom's not real sure why but she doesn't practice with Caper much and said they were still getting into the swing of working together again. She had one spin as mom did a rear cross at the end of the serpentine but it was really a very nice first run especially since they pretty much never practice. :)


This next video is of Wildcard. Mom was very pleased with the rear on the jump after the weave poles. Caper didn't spin on that one at all but she was turning the easier way for her. But still a very nice run and she didn't suck to the off course tunnel at all, mom hung back and she had no trouble going into the weave poles.


Here is Caper running Fullhouse. Even though she didn't read mom correctly in the beginning (the video missed it anyway) they still had a very nice rest of the run and got enough points to Qualify, thank goodness! You can hear mom telling Caper to hurry up! She never has to say that to me! Caper is not the speediest but she is pretty steady.


Finally, here is one of the Jackpot runs. Caper needed two to finish her Level 4, and she didn't get either. Mom was really mad at herself for this run. She was obsessed that she practice the 6 weave poles in the opening, and totally wasted a ton of time when Caper was twirling around. Of course, Caper had no problem at all with the Gamble, she knows how to do weave poles for goodness sakes! But because Mom was so silly, she was one point shy in the opening and therefore did not qualify!! Boy was mom upset with herself for being such a dope!

Well, mom is still waiting for the video of Caper's Jumpers run on Sunday - it was very nice! Unfortunately, her nicest Standard run did not get video taped - oh well!

Thanks for looking at my sister Caper-Doodle-Doo playing agility. Mom is waiting to hear if there is room for her in my Wednesday agility class so she can work on tightening turns and getting more speed!

Well, I'll be back again soon with more, bark at ya later!
WOL (that's for Woof Out Loud, silly),
ArthurGOOD!

Vacation Agility

One of the fun things I got to do with my mom on my vacation was to play some agility! Mom has been working with me to go over the jumps better. (Apparently, she cares whether or not the fall apart after I go throu . . . er . . . over them.)

Anyway, while she has been making me practice this, and also just practice paying attention to what she wants me to do instead of making it up on my own, she hasn't let me play any agility where there are lots of other people and dogs and ribbons and stuff.

So, when I realized I was actually going to get to do that again, I got so excited I lost my head. And mom got so nervous she lost her's. So our first day wasn't so great. But then we both pulled ourselves together a little bit and we worked much better together for the rest of the time.

Mom says I still have to work a lot more on my jumping but that is is much improved from the days when I would leave the ring and none of the jumps would be standing.

And she says I did a real good job listening to her and going where she wanted me to. So, she was happy about that.

Mom says I need to work on weaving when excited, though. She claims I am not collecting myself before entering and so I end up skipping a pole which requires me to start over. She says that at my level, the weave poles aren't faulted, they just need to be completed correctly, but once you reach the higher levels once the dog enters correctly they may be faulted if they don't finish properly. So she says I have to work on that too. I just like to go really fast, though.

Here are some videos.

This is me doing a nice job of keeping jumps up, in a Jackpot run. In this game, I can do any obstacles my mom wants me to do to earn points until the whistle blows, then she has to have me do the gamble obstacles without her crossing the line. Since I am still at a low level, there is very little distance between the line and the obstacles. It was way easy!


Here is a Standard run where I also keeps all the jumps up.


This is Mom and I running a Wildcard course. Mom caused an off course with a poorly executed front cross, but I keep up all of the jumps. :) Oh, if you don't know what Wildcard is, there are three places on the course where there is a choice of obstacles and because of the level I'm in my mom needs to choose 2 easy and 1 hard for me to do. In the level I am in, I am allowed an off course and just have to complete the weaves, so I did Q.


Thanks so much for watching my videos!

~ArthurGOOD

Some pictures from my Vacation

Here are some pictures of my vacation with mom and Auntie Emily and Speckles.

This is me and Speckles!

This is our ride:

3 years ago!

Here I am, three years ago! Do you think I've changed much?

ArthurGOOD!