Friday, March 19, 2010
Weight pull tomorrow
Well it should be interesting. Since the harness came I thought maybe I should actually have Magic give it a try. Well, lets hope at the trial he has a bit more entheusiasm. He was completely lazy last night. OH No, too heavy gonna lay down. Guys, it was the empty cart. I guess I need to go to Macs tonight and bring home a cheeseburger for Saturdays pull treat. He WILL work for a cheeseburger- at least he laways has in the past. My gosh I have to bribe my dog.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
New Harness
Magics weight pull harness finally arrived. It fits wonderfully. In fact it fits all the dogs, even Kazin. Every dog wore it for a while last night. Kazin thought I was killing him. Siren forgot how to work her legs and totally lost her ears. Peace looked at me, looked at the harness hanging behind her all worried until I offered a cookie and suddenly the harness was just fine. Grace just gave me her "you have got to be kidding" look, which by the way is not too different from her "get bent" look. Magic though, seemed to smile.
Saturday we are ready!
Saturday we are ready!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Quilting any Corgi bloggers who quilt?
First - update for last nights quilting. I think I finished 3 more blocks-I was really tired yesterday and I honestly was on autopilot all day.
Janet had a good thought in my comments. Would any of the bloggers out there be interested in creating a one of a kind quilt for some fundraising event, maybe cardigan rescue? Or cardi and pem quilters and do a quilt for corgi aid?
Think about it and let me know!
Janet had a good thought in my comments. Would any of the bloggers out there be interested in creating a one of a kind quilt for some fundraising event, maybe cardigan rescue? Or cardi and pem quilters and do a quilt for corgi aid?
Think about it and let me know!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Lazy trainer, busy crafter, garden plans
OK, so it was a beautiful weekend, and other than one short walk with the dogs, I basically did nothing dog related. The dogs spent the weekend working on venison leg bones and trying to break into them enough to get to the marrow. Diligent hard working dogs that I have, they were very successfull, and my livingroom floor is littered with split leg bones.
I on the other hand, spent large chunks of the weekend sewing. I have a 9 month mystery quilt project that we are on month 6 in receiving the instructions. I, on the other hand had not completed month one, prior to the weekend. I am now almost done with month 3, have about half of month 4 done, and a bit of month 5. The nice thing about being behind, you can combine some work on the cutting and piecing to what makes sense, rather than smaller portions at a time. The bad part is that I have 27 blocks to complete. But my goal is to get them done this week. As of last night I had 3 blocks totally completed from month 4 I think.
I think with spring around the corner, more daylight and actual sun instead of clouds, spring is on the way. I am getting some tomato seeds from a fellow blogger, Danni at On the Way to Critter Farm. That, and a walk past the garden, has me thinking about garden planning, although here in Minnesota it will be a bit longer before I can get too much going. But, I do plan this week to test the bean seeds I kept from last years garden, so see if they sprout for me. I have always bought seeds so this was a first. I will limit my beans this year though- they sort of took over the garden last year, and we wasted wquite a bit as we didnt get them all picked timely. I dont have a pressure canner and have not had much luck with frozen green beans so we only ate them fresh. Well, except for the few I pickled.
I on the other hand, spent large chunks of the weekend sewing. I have a 9 month mystery quilt project that we are on month 6 in receiving the instructions. I, on the other hand had not completed month one, prior to the weekend. I am now almost done with month 3, have about half of month 4 done, and a bit of month 5. The nice thing about being behind, you can combine some work on the cutting and piecing to what makes sense, rather than smaller portions at a time. The bad part is that I have 27 blocks to complete. But my goal is to get them done this week. As of last night I had 3 blocks totally completed from month 4 I think.
I think with spring around the corner, more daylight and actual sun instead of clouds, spring is on the way. I am getting some tomato seeds from a fellow blogger, Danni at On the Way to Critter Farm. That, and a walk past the garden, has me thinking about garden planning, although here in Minnesota it will be a bit longer before I can get too much going. But, I do plan this week to test the bean seeds I kept from last years garden, so see if they sprout for me. I have always bought seeds so this was a first. I will limit my beans this year though- they sort of took over the garden last year, and we wasted wquite a bit as we didnt get them all picked timely. I dont have a pressure canner and have not had much luck with frozen green beans so we only ate them fresh. Well, except for the few I pickled.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Crufts - heelwork to music
Did anyone else watch this and become so totally amazed and inspired? Some of this heelwork was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. What an inspiration.
Mat training
Its funny how life works sometimes. I got the email about mat training Grace and got some help from all of you- (thanks by the way), and I did start working with Grace on the mat. Since Magic and I are trying to keep up in the trick class though, we were working on those this week. Failing, but still trying. Magic just cannot understand that I just want the front end down, and that back end drops first every time- but I digress. So I am sure that we are going to be the only ones at class having trouble with this, yup we were. However, we probably had the most distance of the class on the go touch exercise. At home I can get Magic to go almost the whole length of my house, kitchen to livingroom which is maybe 35 feet. At class of course it isn't quite there but he would do 10 easily.
But class progressed, and last night we worked on teaching your dog to pose, allowing you to move a foot or tail, and of course a bit on expressions. Then we worked a bit on spins. I need to decide what to call those.
Every night at the end of class the instructor gives us a 5 minute challenge. You have 5 minutes to teach your dog to do whatever the challenge is. Last nights challenge was to be able to send your dog to a mat from 5 feet away and get a sit. Guess what, Magic was able to do it in about 3 and give me either a sit or a down.
What a good boy.
Our homework for the week- see if we can get the bow and head down to click. Work on the distance touch/send with both the mat and the touch toy on the road. Practice posing, put a name ot any cute expressions we want to maintain. For Magic I want to see if I can get ear movement. I already get up ears if I say ears I need to reward that now, its always been something he has just done, but I would like ti to be more solid. Also if I can get a airplane ears on command that might be fun too. Maybe a head tilt?
If I only had one or 2 dogs it would probably be easier to catch and click normal behaviors, but with 4 maybe not. As soon as they hear a click they all come running and I get mobbed. I know I should have trained better manners when the girls were young-bad me, but we are working on staying and letting me work one at a time. Crystal had posted how she is starting to train 5 mini sessions a day. I have been doing 3 with Magic and one with each of the others, but maybe more short sessions with everyone would be a good plan. Over the weekend we will test that.
Good training Everyone!
But class progressed, and last night we worked on teaching your dog to pose, allowing you to move a foot or tail, and of course a bit on expressions. Then we worked a bit on spins. I need to decide what to call those.
Every night at the end of class the instructor gives us a 5 minute challenge. You have 5 minutes to teach your dog to do whatever the challenge is. Last nights challenge was to be able to send your dog to a mat from 5 feet away and get a sit. Guess what, Magic was able to do it in about 3 and give me either a sit or a down.
What a good boy.
Our homework for the week- see if we can get the bow and head down to click. Work on the distance touch/send with both the mat and the touch toy on the road. Practice posing, put a name ot any cute expressions we want to maintain. For Magic I want to see if I can get ear movement. I already get up ears if I say ears I need to reward that now, its always been something he has just done, but I would like ti to be more solid. Also if I can get a airplane ears on command that might be fun too. Maybe a head tilt?
If I only had one or 2 dogs it would probably be easier to catch and click normal behaviors, but with 4 maybe not. As soon as they hear a click they all come running and I get mobbed. I know I should have trained better manners when the girls were young-bad me, but we are working on staying and letting me work one at a time. Crystal had posted how she is starting to train 5 mini sessions a day. I have been doing 3 with Magic and one with each of the others, but maybe more short sessions with everyone would be a good plan. Over the weekend we will test that.
Good training Everyone!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Crufts-cardi wins pastoral group!
Yoohoo cardigans! Of course the only time I was away from my desk today was a mandatory meeting which occurred at the same time as the pastoral group so I did not get to see the cardi win. But I saw her enter and she looked lovely! Hopefully I will be able to watch the BIS!
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