Couple Teeters

And because it isn't just "all about agility" a couple videos of what we do after we practice for a while.

Weave Training Continued

Some training videos for your comments. Please let me know what I can improve upon.

Would Batman be a Good Agility Handler?

I think not.

Sure he is athletic enough, but let's look at his qualifications.

First of all, Batman has too many aids. He has cool cars that when smashed up transform into fat wheeled motorbikes. Where would he put all the dog crates and trial gear?

His outfit has things fly off for various reasons. He's got wings for goodness sake. Wings would be totally distracting to a dog. Proper attire is absolutely necessary for agility. I'm not sure, but it is a good guess he'd get disqualified on his gear belt alone. What about Batmans gloves (if that doesn't look like a dog toy, I'm a 6 foot tall supermodel!)?

From all accounts in this last batman movie, dogs don't seem to like him, but they do like crazy clown faced wackos. I think it is due to his facial expressions and voice. Dogs like silly happy voices, not Darth Vader voices. They also like to read your facial expression. To all accounts, batman is a really angry kinda guy, but the Joker seems sorta happy in his own way.

I don't think that Batman has a systematic handling system. He seems more like the "seat of your pants" kinda guy and in agility, that is just asking for trouble.

But I tell you. He could get over all of the above disabilities to a good agility handler, if he wasn't so self absorbed. He truly believes that he is the only one that can "get it done," and that my friend is the kiss of death in agility. One must trust and accept the partnership before one can excel in the area of the teeter, jump, and a-frame. A loner does well to stick to sports that do not rely on teamwork.

Fitness for Agility - Week 2

Well, weigh in today was great. Lost another .5 pounds. Staying off the darn fast food is working. Ban the drive throughs!

My goals this week were to write down everything and exercise. I did the exercise but for some reason stopped writing on Sunday.

This week I have one goal and one goal only. Write down everything I eat. I'll continue the exercise of course, but the thing I want most is to write it down.

I'm sprinting in the back yard this week as well. I'm running from one end to the other (with Fin or Tazz) stopping, changing direction and sprinting back. That with the other stuff is helping my confidence to run faster.

Weaves are continuing well. Fin is starting to wean off of the guides and do them on her own. She is such a good girly.

Thats all for now. Gotta go exercise.

Ouch!

Weaves are going well. Taking advice from Laura, I've been making the entrances harder, adding distance, and moving the weaves around the yard. Today has been really good. Monday not so much.

Today I think the difference is I've been crating her a little more cause I'm so busy with work. I'm taking her out right after, letting her go potty and then working her for 5-6 minutes. Then playing with her. She's looking really good and I'm not helping much. I'm using a ball instead of a flat toy to increase speed out of the weaves. She is definitely driving now, however, we get less reps in cause I didn't teach her to return the ball very well. My bad.

So after I worked her and had a quick WW meal, I decided to take a few minutes and trim back some flowers around the pool. I'm using my new clippers. I grabbed a bunch of the flower stems and snipped.

I said, "ouch," then realized my finger was bleeding. Not only was it bleeding, but it was bleeding profusely. I'm like whoa! I need a band aid. I go running into the house with four dogs under foot and put it under water then said, "@!@#!!$@!" That really hurt. Grabbed a paper towel and wrapped the finger in it...I'm thinking...oh, I got it good this time.

Run down the hall with four dogs underfoot to get the band aid. Finally found a suitable band aid and tried to clean it again and take a closer look. Basically my snazzy new clipper clipped the side and part of the tip of my finger OFF! Not your run of the mill cut I tell ya. At first I'm thinking...can they put it back on...then I'm thinking...wait, how much did that weigh!

So now wrapped up, I'm hoping it will not bother me too much. Oh boy...what excitement and it is only 12:00 noon!

SMART

Ok, I'll admit it. I'm sumwhat of a car freak. If I had all the money in the world, I'd give alot of it away, but, I'd keep some of it and buy alot of cars. I think I'd get a new car every year. The latest car I like is called the "SMART" car.

In Europe you see these everywhere. In London I could see they were very handy vehicles as they don't take very much room to park and seemed to be very zippy. I could see using one of these to get around town in, but I can't see using it to go to dog shows.

The SMART car is not very SMART for my lifestyle. For one thing, there is literally no space for the dogs. Maybe I could get one dog in the front seat, but if it is unsafe for children...how could it be safe for my dogs.

Right now they advertise the SMART fourtwo...I may have to wait for the SMART fortwo&4dogs. In the meantime, I'll toodle around in my full size van called "UNSMART fourtwo&sixdogsandsometimesathirdonthefloor"...put that on your website!

I Got a Gold Star!

Thanks Elizabeth for sending me a gold star. I appreciate the support!