Available Male Puppies

We have a few male puppies available from our 2 summer litters. www.hillcrestbordercollies.com and www.youtube.com/user/HillcrestBCs

Lahar (Jen x Spark)

Tuff (Jen x Spark)

Caldera (Jen x Spark)

Watt (Lash x Spritz)

Ash (Jen x Spark)

Godspeed Tephra

Brew Is For Sale

Brew is for sale, on a neuter contract, to a herding or novice/intermediate agility home. Brew is a very sweet and loving boy who gets along with adult dogs and puppies and loves kids. He is very quiet inside the house and outside. Brew lives in the house as a part of our family. He plays with toys and bones and also chills on a dog bed.
Brew has been started on sheep and will be ready for full time training this summer. He was born in July, 2009 and has the ability to run in 2 years of Nursery.
Brew is for sale on a Neuter contract. Please visit Brew's personal page

www.hillcrestbordercollies.com/brew.cfm

Saint Is Available

Saint is an outgoing and energetic puppy. She is both toy and food motivated. She loves to tug on anything that she can get her mouth on. Saint is crate trained and sleeps through the night. She is starting on her basic puppy training. Saint would be suitable for a performance home as she has high toy drive and loves to work.

Running Contacts

I have put a lot of thought into contacts this past year. Risk and I would always go head to head at a trial for her 2o2o contacts. It was making trialing her not very fun. I also have several young dogs coming up and I needed to think on how I was going to train them. I did a lot of research, reading, watching videos and talking to people.

I have come to the conclusion that I will always teach a running A-Frame to any dog I train. I think this will help out with shoulder and back problems in the long run. I also like the striding a lot better than a 2o2o. Now, I know that I won't teach a running dogwalk to everydog as I don't feel it is meant for every dog. Some of my dogs are doing Silvia Trkman's method and some are going to do a 2o2o contact. I took this last year off to figure out what I wanted to do with Risk's dogwalk. I have been doing Silvia's method with her and I am really loving it, with her, so far. I started with Singe and I am very happy that he was taught to just run the plank as I think it will help him in the long run. I have decided to do a 2o2o with him because of his stride and style of running. The verdict is still out on Fusion. She like Singe is very bouncy, so it makes it frustrating.

Here is Risk's A-Frame. It is at 5'2" in this video. I am going to raise it up to 5'6" and take the stride regulator away today.

Singe's A-Frame is coming along nicely. I had to add a stride regulator on the descent because he was not extending coming over the apex.

This video shows the first time I took Risk off of the plank and put her on a baby height dogwalk. I was backchaining in this session.

Risk was then allowed to do the entire dogwalk at baby height. I have learned that 6 or 7 full dogwalks is all that Risk can take mentally and physically at this time. She starts to get tired after that. She is the type of dog that puts everything into her training and tugging add that to thinking about what she is learning. She starts to slow down and revert back to a partial 2o2o stride when she gets tired.

Havoc x Singe puppies 4 Weeks Old

The Havoc x Singe puppies are 4 weeks old now. OK, they are a few days over 4 weeks, but the video was taken at 4 weeks of age.

The puppies love to tug now. You can see this in the first video. They a have been taking a hold of their dog beds and "killing" them.

Colt is a very determined puppy. He had been working on escaping for quite some time and let us know all about it. He escaped this one time and then I put the board up a little. Well I found out that that wasn't going to work because the bugger got out in the middle of the night and started roaming the house in the dark. I put a taller board up there now.

Risk and Fusion's Running Dogwalk Training

I decided last fall that I would retrain Risk's contacts from 2o2o to a running. Unfortunately our winters are not conducive to training agility outside, so I had to wait for good weather. I have started training the dogs again. I also decided that I was going to train Fusion, Risk's grand daughter, on running contacts.

I have played around with a couple of our other dogs and found out it is not for every dog.

Fusion is just starting out on plank work. She tends to come off of the sides at times, so I decided I would put up x-pens on either side. I move them away from the plank more and more in each session. I am just working on her running, not pouncing, as she is doing the plank. What I am looking for is that her back feet are separated when they push off of the plank each time. I am very happy with it and will quickly fade out the x-pens so that I can raise the plank.

I am very happy with Risk's progress. I knew she would progress faster than Fusion because she has many years of dogwalk training. She also did "see wood run" as a young dog. I was able to raise her plank up to about 8 inches after warming up with it on the ground.