Micole's training... updates

Heel work

- Personally I considered MicMic's heelwork very good. She's quite fast in her turns and auto-sit... and always close to Bb... quite impressed with this little girl... she received couple of praises for this... :) but her stand is still abit weak... need to improve~~~

Stand for examination

- Ok.. tried out couple of times.. Trainer Chris tried circling ard her and touching her.. she seems fine but need to reinforce still~~

Recall

- Last time I saw she will run forward to Bb but the sitting in front of handler still requires more training... but her heel back to handler's side is ok!!

Sit & Down stay

- More stable than before... sit stay 2~3 mins ok... but she inherited Schnappi's bad habit of kaypo-ness... she likes to turn her head all over to look here look there... even to the extent of turning 180 degrees around... hahaha!! So her down stay cannot meet the requirements... :P more practice needed!!

Overall results still satisfactory.. Bb hopes Micole can do well in the coming Pre-Novice trial... maybe a placing hopefully... :) JIA YOU~~~

Training the noti girls..

Recently Bb started training Schnappi and Micole together... every night the 2 girls will happily go out together, esp Micole. She's now extremely excited when Bb comes home... guess she knows she'll go for her walk with jie-jie soon... :) couple of nights ago, Bb demostrated how he managed to line them up.. Micole in front and Schnappi behind... then with 1 command DOWN, both went down in line together... of course to many this is no big feat. But i was truely amazed by the little demo... knowing my dogs esp Micole who's extremely playful ard Schnappi, I was VERY pleased with what she can do now... really!!

While at training yesterday, I saw that Micole's recall became better than before and she managed to sit stay for 2 mins too... round of applause for Bb's effort. I haven't seen her training for sometime, cuz when I'm ard, she's always distracted... hence this gave me a good excuse to laze in front of my TV... muahaha!! Bb has decided to sign her up for Pre-novice the next trial... woo hoo~~

Also we have a new classmate yesterday... a MS... but dunno her name yet... our intermediate class is growing now and this is of course good news... And heard Turner fractured his leg... no wonder habent seen him in training recently... hope he gets well soon... and Claudia too... hope we'll see her and baby Chloe soon too!!

Results for the trial~~~

Date: 17 May 09
Venue: Expo Hall 6B

CD Trainers got 4 champions for the day... from Princetion, Silver and Wenta.

Princeton: Intermediate champ
Silver: Maxi Agility (Open) and Maxi Jumpers (Open) Champ
Wenta: Mini Jumpers (Novice) Champ

**clap clap clap** got free dinner lo... :P

The rest of us didn't make it... Schnappi flunk her Send away again... and got zeroes for both her stays as well... sit stay she got itchy backside... down stay she started "hallucinating" again...

Anyway, I trust we have all done our best. Cheers for all effort put in!!

D-day~~

It's the trial day tmr!! And Schnappi is not eating.... haizz... scully tmr she kaki lembek :P... haha!!

Well whatever needs to learn she oredi knows... whatever is wrong she shd also know... it's all up to her to perform now.

Good luck CD Trainers!!

Counting down to the trials...

6 more days to the trials liao... woohoo~~ as usual i guess, will be another long day at the expo... with us patronizing BK, OJ and 7-11 once more... haha!! there really ain't many choices there... wonder how we will fare this time round... one more group training either tmr or wed nite... all the best to our training group and hopefully all the dogs will be guai guai and do well this sun!!

**Fighting~~**

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... :)