We had Agility Training today. Yukon has nice touch points but need to learn to wait for the release command. We work on it. Indy was so drivy today, when I got him out of the van, that the first round was so crapp with a lot of barking and not listening ..... totally horrible.
Lesley came along and we done some Search and Rescue Training.We got Sandra's Rottweiler out and done some simple run away games with her. She is running out nicely. At the moment she is very food orientated, so we have to find
that toy for her. I think a squeaky toy would do. Indy's alert is still not like I really want it, so I have to change my training approach again and cue him into barking for a while, than reward him for stopping me and barking at me.
It was not all about dog training today, I been teached a big lesson today. I never realised in all them years training with the same people, that my "jokes" about Border Collies might not taken by them as jokes. I always thought, due to nearly every Border handler know what marvelous breed they are to them, they take my comments as jokes, due to me never would be able to handle a collie. This is why I did choose a breed suiting me. I upsad two of my loveliest and most supportive friends I ever had and did not realised what I was doing. That showed me also today, how dangerous blogspots, emails, sms and face book could be. What is been written as a joke in one of my post came across as an insult on their very hard working very high up in the grades Agility dogs. When I wrote it, I thought everybody would think, after reading it and knowing what border collies are capable of..... "you wish Karin you and your Belgian would be good as them......" But it did not came across like that. The only thing I can do is deeply appologise and put it into the behaviour as usual beeing a " Bull in a China Shop". I wish that my friends and all the others affected by my "jokes" will be able to forgive me at some point, but I would understand if I had gone to far this time with the way I am sometimes.
