Upcoming trial...

Have registered Schnappi for Open this coming May 17... wonders if she'll do well this time... had some hiccups on the Send Away during Wednesday's training... hopefully all goes well this time round...

After thinking through, we've decided not to enrol Micole in this trial... although her heel work is pretty much ok... but her recall is a no-no... either she runs to you and sits her back facing you... or she'll somehow "auto-finish" herself... haha... and last night while she was training along the corrider... i heard a crash at the door... then Bb came back with her saying her recall is a fail-fail... she actually ran crashing to the door while practising... ouch~~

The beauty in Micole is she is ever ready to try again... even though she crashes herself many times... she is still very "optimistic" to keep on trying... this is something we find Schnappi lacks... anyway her sit and down stay is also not very stable... so maybe the next round ba... when she's more "trained" in this sense...

Schnappi - her "aggressiveness" & "laziness"

Schnappi girl has always been food-motivated... and last Sat nite when she came back from her usual walk, Bb said Schnappi actually snapped and showed aggression at another dog... prolly because the dog was too near to her daddy's pocket (where her food is..) for her comfort... this is the first time that Bb actually saw her doing that and was rather surprised.. this noti girl simply can't share... Yet very often she shares her drink bowl during trainings and is ok when we treat other dogs... but of cuz we must treat her at the same time lar :p... I suppose if u dun cross her tolerance level, she can still tahan... else she'll not give you any face... :P

Next is her "laziness"... she likes to play with her toy on the sofa... she will start gnawing and gnawing... but if it drops off the sofa, she'll give you the "Pick-up-for-me" look... initially we will always do so, but few gnaws later, it will drop off again... and she'll give you the look once more... and this could happen every 1 or 2 mins... so we decided to "act blur" when she shoots us "the look"... when she notices that we do not respond, she'll start making noises and scratching the sofa... she could do so for 5 whole minutes or more... simply refusing to get off the sofa to pick up the toy herself... so we'll all play the waiting game to see who concede defeat first... finally she bo pian... lift her butt off the seat to get the toy herself...

Sometimes it's funny to see her throw temper then bo pian go pick her toy.. after 2 bites it fell off again and the cycle starts once more.. after few times, she'll sometimes get agitated and either refused to pick up anymore or make off to get another toy... Guess she slowly understands that there's no maid on stand-by to wait on her... so she'll hv to learn to pick things up herself... :)

Micole turned 1 le..

Been too busy recently.. haven't got time to really blog.. but no matter what.. i need to write this down.. my little angel has turned 1 last friday.. on the 10th.. muack muack~~

Dear Mic-Mic.. Mummy had showered you with lotsa birthday kisses that day.. hope u like the new toys mummy bought for u... and we all had dinner at Happy Daze on Sunday.. glad that u've enjoyed the muffin thou it seems that jie-jie had eaten almost 3/4 of it.. may you stay healthy, happy and fearless.. and pls.. no more food picking.. eat well and grow up well ya...

Love and kisses from Mummy, Daddy and Schnappi~~

Short clip of Micole in training~~

Took a short video of Micole in Sunday's class... much to my surprise, there's a fair bit of improvement in her now... but of cos, there's still lots of things to learn and master... but I'm glad that she's taking it in stride and doing fine.. :P

Passion by the Beach

Date: 5 Apr 09 (Sunday)
Venue: East Coast
Weather: Rain Rain Rain

Dropped by the event yesterday... cuz we enrolled Schnappi in the "Fatal Distraction" contest, ie. a sit stay contest... Schnappi was lucky... she entered into the final round... barely missing the bak kua at the semi-finals... :p Bo pian, my girl is SUPER food-motivated!! Muahahaa!! Anyway, she STRETCHED forward sniffing the bak kua when the host brought it near... and I really mean STRETCHED... :P

With the final four dogs, out come the sausages... the dog that moved the first and most will be out... after the bak kua, the hotdogs was too much of a temptation to resist... so after a sniff, down went the sausage in Schnappi's tummy... slurp~~~ when the host brought out another piece to tempt the next dog, Schnappi practically walked over to salvage the piece as well... her OS might be "What the heck!! Since I've moved liao, I might as well help myself!"... hahaha... the audience all laughed at this point... oh my god, that's my greedy girl... :p

One point though, it would definitely be fairer if the sausages were "served" to the dogs simultaneously... No doubt my Schnappi would still be the first to break.. high possibility because I know my girl... but temptations should be used at the same time to see which dog moved first... to ensure more fairness in the game...

Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure Schnappi is happy as she is... after swallowing 2 hotdogs... no wonder she looked so contented in her aftenoon nap after she's back home... :)