It's a sign....

I think it's a sign when your dogs are reeling out of control that it's time to get back into training :p

Kinta has gone mental - constantly pacing the fenceline waiting till our neighbours dogs comes out or pacing the yard waiting for a possum to magically fall down from the tree... with the help of her JUMPING on the fence too!!! One of my pet hates, as our last dog used to do it too... maybe it's the area we live, but gee it's annoying. Try as I might, management is ok, but it's getting more and more difficult not to get really evil with her even though I *know* it won't work. After finally losing it today, seeing that get me knowhere, then getting my thoughts back and switching to making it worthwhile for her *not* to change the fence, we then had huge success.... in short - the dogs are bored, and time to get out those training tools again ;-). I think I'm getting restless too :p

Leo on the other hand - well you can tell he needs to go back to training in one of 2 ways:

1- he gets rather eager whenever you do something that looks remotely like training
2 - he seems to get dumber by the minute (well you can't be that good looking AND have brains that think straight too! I think he does quite well!)
3 - a combination of both.

I'm sure the dogs will love the return to some work - I have a whole stack of work I want to do, but unfortunately, as always, the backyard is useless for anything other than tricks :-(. I also need to get some jumps too - I think 7 jumps (I have 3) a set of weaves (this I have) and a tunnel (or two) would be perfect.... so better start saving again for the rest of my equipment so I can start working on some Greg Derrett sequences and Susan Salo jumping grids!

So - what will we be working on - in short, i'm not sure with Kinta... just refining things and a lot of agility stuff (so, jumping grids, 270s, entries and exits from weavers)..... I'm just not sure about obedience :)

Leo has a truckload of work - I want to work on all the above (agility stuff) as well as refining some UD work so we can start entering the ring again soon!

Have a Greg Derrett Seminar at the end of Jan - I am sure that will inspire me further... I can't wait!

Can't wait to get started again - bring on 2009!! Gotta get Leo checked out again first though - he seems a little sore in the shoulder... see - more reasons to teach him how to jump properly!