Training Session (Agility)

My good friend Christie came down from Washington to do some agility training this last weekend.  I am so glad that she did because we both pushed each other to train more in 2 days than we have been lately.  I mainly concentrated on Lash and Risk, but I did do some with Singe and Fusion.  As some of you know Singe had a hamstring injury that made me pull him from any training and running for quite some time.  I brought him back with swimming and slowly let him run.  I did agility with him this last weekend for the first time in about 2 months.  It seems that 15 minutes of training is too much for his hamstring to handle.  He can run and swim to his heart's content, but it seems that a lot of jumping and pushing is bothering it.  My plan is to do 5 minutes of training with him on each day that I can.  I will slowly increase it up and see how he does.  

Fusion is a kick in the pants to run and train.  She is still a puppy/young dog, but she is very quick twitch and game.  She is a true combination of her mom and dad.

Here is a video of Risk and Lash's training from Saturday.  I still have video to upload, but I need to go out and mow for now.

If you want to see a bigger version of this video you can go to our You Tube Page www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6HHj7sXJPs&feature=channel_page

You Tube took out our music, so this one on Blogger is the "cool one".

Skarlet x Rock Puppies @ 1 1/2 Weeks Old

Skarlet's puppies are 1 1/2 weeks old now.  They are starting to be more mobile, although looking like drunk puppies on all fours.

Skarn (male)

Gneiss (male)

Lava (male)

Shale (female)

Pelite (female)

Jetta (female)

Beryl (female)

What a Day

In simple words "Today Sucked".  I love heat, but it has been too much lately.  It is way too hot to do anything let alone train dogs.  Our air conditioner could not keep up with the heat lately and especially today.  Today it reached 106 and probably hotter in the direct sun.  Our house was up to 86 degrees inside with the AC running.  I turned it off as it was just wasting energy. 

The puppies were whining and crying and I could not figure out why.  Skarlet was in there for them to nurse on, but they wanted none of that.  I would put them near her and they would slither away.  I finally figured out that they were WAY too hot.  I got the snack size ziploc bags and filled them with crushed ice.  I then wrapped them in a thin blanket and put a rubber band around them.  I place 5 or 6 in the pen and the puppies quickly flocked to them.  They were laying on top of the ice bags for quite some time.  The instant they cuddled up with the ice they were quiet.

I took these pictures of the puppies this morning.  I actually got up and took individual pictures, but I did not like a single one.  They were very washed out.  I went to the store and got 2 different color fabrics for tomorrows pictures.  I either do it in the morning or it doesn't get done at all.

I changed the bedding in the puppy pen, so the puppies got to hang out for a while.  I did get these cute pictures of the gang together.

Jetta is already getting some freckles.

I saw that they forcasted for thunder and lightning with rain tonight.  I saw the clouds come over, but nothing was looked promising.  All of a sudden the skies opened up and the storm let go.  We had lightning everywhere and then a major downpour.  The temps instantly dropped 20 degrees and the wind picked up.  After the rain ended I opened all of the window.  YEAHHHH!!

The sunset after the storm.

A Herdin' We Will Go

Mick and Kate were the chosen ones today.  Pat and Cheryl have a goat ranch out in Bend .  They needed the recently weaning moms moved into another big pasture away from their kids.  My dogs are always willing to work. I just told Murray, the other day, that Mick is officially retired.  Well, nope he is not as he was needed for the job.

It was already in the mid eighties by the time we were moving them this morning.  Luckily there is plenty of water for the dogs to cool off and swim in.  Kate helped herself to the canal as Pat was showing me the path we were going to move the goats.

Kate is waiting IMPATIENTLY  for us to start work.  She kept trying to move them all from outside of the fence and she would bite them through the fence.

When we got to the ranch Kate and Mick had to survey their work.

Kate having a little pep talk with the goats.

Now stand there until we are ready for you to move

I SAID stand there!

And we are off

Pat and Cheryl have 2 dogs from us, so we thought this would be a great photo opportunity.

Left to Right: Scout (Jen x Mick), Kate, Mick, and Spark (Lash x Sooner)

The dogs are showing there control on the dock

And all control must be unleashed at one point

Mr. Handsome, aka Spark

What fine form Spark has

Scout could not be left behind

Uhhhh, where did everyone go?

I just had to take a picture of the bathroom.  Who has a bathroom painted like this down at the barn? 

Some of the kids who were left behind.