Saturday, December 13, 2008

Sometimes you just have to stop and play

For the past week I really have been a most uninteresting sort of owner. Sleeping just about round the clock, grumpy and whinny when awake. Now that is not a pretty combonation, is it? So this afternoon when Sanity started bugging me about the fact that she was bored, bored, bored I figured she deserved some time.

First we spent a bit working on the old fashioned doodles. Meaning I called out the commands in a very random order, come, back, stand, down, sit, down, stand, come, back, back, down, stand, etc. Then we both got tired of that at about the same time and so this is what we did next.

I confess, she never did manage to master the stand, flip, catch bit. All that means is we still have something to play with on another day.

video

2 comments:

cathie said...

That is a great video..... Her expression is of total wonderment........ where did it go, I just had it and poof. gone! Her sister can do a toss catch from the sit and if tossed to her from the front, but I also tried standing with on the nose, and nope, she can't do it either! Must be in the genes. LOL

winterskibunny said...

Is there a way to teach the flip, or is this something they just figure out themselves? I'll have to see if Cap's book mentions something about this.

I have gotten to the point where I can decorate my dogs with food items and have them balance those, but some dogs seem to have the flip and some dogs don't.

I've been having a bored Leon myself, and we did some play retrieve today. I am doing a working retrieve with Jack and trying to document the differences I see in the dog's ability. Eventually we will get to a working retrieve with Leon, but I was interested to see the results of doing two methods at the same time with two different dogs.

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