tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646738478240422122024-03-05T22:10:18.729-08:00RIGBY - GRAYHART'S RIDER ON THE STORMNinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-50235107341646352682017-11-26T13:22:00.001-08:002017-11-26T13:22:21.844-08:00HARLEY NEEDS TO BLOG, TOO!<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harley doesn't have a blog site!! I've written blog posts about him on my Rescue Blog site, but that was when he was a rescue dog! Harley is no longer a rescue dog, he is part of our family. Not only that, while he's still part of the Tri State Weimaraner Rescue family, he's also kind of an adopted part of the Grayhart Weimaraner family -- just ask Linda Hartheimer, Rigby's breeder! This dog has hit the jackpot, he's got so many people on his side!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've decided I'll put some Harley posts here on Rigby's blog -- I don't think she'll mind, she also loves Harley and they've become partners in crime, in play and sleeping on the couch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harley's blog entries will be in red print, as Rigby's are usually in purple, and perhaps sometimes I'll write about both of them in the same post!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To bring Harley's blog post up to date, he's gone from the fat, 123-pound Weim who came into rescue days before his 3rd birthday, to a much more confident, 80-pound Weim who loves to run, play and track. He's got a big personality and is full of fun -- he makes us laugh every day. He loves his family and has settled into the routine of life with Dan and I. He still needs lots of training and has much to learn, he promises to challenge me along those lines as much as any Weim I've met!</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harley the day we picked him up for Tri State Weimaraner Rescue.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harley took to tracking almost immediately and progressed forward every week, rarely having a "bad" day out in the fields. He learned to rest quietly in the crate in the car waiting for his turn to track and socialized with the small group of people and dogs that we met with weekly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I entered him in the Weimaraner Club of Northern Illinois tracking test, knowing that they gave preference to Weims. He made it into the test and we made the long drive to the Chicago area. I'm proud to say that on November 12th Harley earned his Tracking Dog title on his first try!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harley is my first dog to pass his TD on his initial try -- I think that's partly a testament to the fact that my first two tracking dogs taught me a lot, but also Harley deserves credit for being a good tracking dog who doesn't give up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It took Harley 10 minutes to pass his TD test, and a good portion of that time was spent on the first leg, where we had to work through Harley's fear/nervousness about a bulldozer that started working just a couple hundred yards (if that) from the start of his track.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The TD fields at the WCNI tracking venue.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the draw for tracks is held the morning of the tests, it truly is the luck of the draw that determines the conditions you will track in. If you draw Track No. 1, you head right out to your track, no waiting for a dog ahead of you, so there's no worry that your track will get old. If it's a rainy day, the timing of your track and the rain will dictate the weather you track in, it could be a drizzle or a downpour. It's all up to luck and the tracking gods.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Harley drew Track No. 2, I didn't worry, it was a wet, cold day and the tracks weren't going to age very quickly, so if the dog on Track No. 1 took some extra time it wouldn't have much of an effect on us. The first dog started his track right on time, at 7:45 and he finished and found his glove at a nice pace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We headed down the grass lane to the start of Harley's track, which was timed to be ready at 8:00, the same time the oil field crew was starting their work day -- who would have thought!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I put on Harley's harness and he headed to the first flag, and off he went down the track, just as usual. He only made it about 20 yards before the bulldozer started up and began working. The noise was kind of a shock to both of us, I had been paying attention to Harley and getting ready to track and had not noticed the activity happening just beyond the field we were in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harley was quite worried about the bulldozer and the noise, the engine revving and the beeping when backing up. He'd go out away from me about 22 or 23 feet and I'd be able to take a step or two forward, and then Harley would turn and run back to me, looking for reassurance. I'd verbally encourage him to go find his track and used the start article to remind him of what he was supposed to be looking for. We continued in this manner as we slowly inched down the track, trying to get past the second flag, the 30-yard mark of the track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then the sirens started. Not sure what the sirens were about, but they added to Harley's apprehension and my nervousness. Thankfully, the emergency vehicles traveled away from our location and the noise of the sirens faded away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did my best to keep my mind working, thinking of the rules, what I was allowed to do and not allowed to do in this situation. I was careful not to point to the ground or physically direct Harley in any way, I made sure not to move forward unless Harley was 20 feet in front of me and to use the start article to remind him of the scent. A restart was out of the question, as it would take us back closer to the noise that was causing us the trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As Harley headed slowly up the first leg of his track and as we put some distance between us and the bulldozer, he started gaining more confidence and then started tracking in his usual manner. Once he made the first turn, that also took us further from the noise, he was in full tracking mode and was giving me good indications of the track and the turns, pulling nicely on the line.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only other time Harley gave me a bit of a worry on his track was on the last leg, where he started checking scents to either side of the track and quit heading straight. Luckily, at that point I could see the glove in the distance, he was only about 20 yards from it. With encouragement to go find the glove, he got back to work, headed to the glove, picked it up and retrieved it to me. Talk about a proud moment!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harley's TD track. First leg 145 yards, right turn and the second leg was 125 yards,<br />
another right turn and the 3rd leg is 60 yards, a left turn and 55 yards, <br />
a right turn and the last leg was 60 yards - 445 total yards.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back Row: Judge Inge Suchanek, me and Judge Pam German.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dreaming of a TDX after passing his TD.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To me, the best part of getting a TD on a dog is that you get to start training for their TDX!! Training for the different aspects of TDX tracking can be challenging, starts from different angles, tracking in woods and then the change of scents exiting the woods, starting to track again after finding intermediate articles, aging starts and tracks, cross tracks, the list goes on! I was immediately excited to start Harley's TDX training to see how he would handle all the new aspects of tracking to which he would be introduced!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first two weeks of TDX training are in the books and it looks like Harley is going to enjoy learning more about tracking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first week he had one intermediate article and a restart and he handled it well. I found that I can't get too excited or Harley gets over the top, so I'll have to watch that. The track took him through a couple cuts in the woods, which he handled with no problem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Week 2, Harley's track was about an hour and a half old and, again, had an intermediate article, which he found and then did his restart very well. The track went into the piney woods and he entered the woods easily and tracked at a good pace through them, back out and into the fields, no trouble with the scent changes. The biggest problem I'm seeing right now is that he avoids prickly cover by going around it and then back to the track. Hopefully he will toughen up over time and stay more directly on his tracks -- Phil says we have a thousand tracks to do, give him some time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As time goes on, Harley will continue to use Rigby's blog to update his friends and fans on his progress in his tracking and other training!!</span><br />
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<br />Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-24819547080763351092017-06-11T11:05:00.001-07:002017-06-12T13:29:01.840-07:002017 Weimaraner National Specialty -- Rigby and I go on an adventure!<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It had been 6 years since I attended the Weim Nationals, and this year I decided that I needed a chance to spend time with other Weim people, people who do performance events with their Weims, my kind of people!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was rather a last minute decision in comparison to those who plan for months or a year to attend their national events, but it was a good decision! It was a scary decision, leaving Dan home alone with Harley for a week and knowing that any manner of things could go wrong there, but it was a good decision! It was a difficult decision, taking a week off of work in a job where I don't earn money if I'm not working, but it was a good decision!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I saw there was a tracking test, retriever ratings and a field seminar offered at the Nationals I felt I could make this an opportunity to learn and to meet people involved in areas of dog sport in which I have an interest. Then, of course, there was the obedience and rally trials offered that we could actually participate in -- sounded like a good week to me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first thing I did when I decided to attend the Nationals was contact the tracking test chair, Jack Sappenfield, and volunteer to help with the test. My offer was accepted and I was allowed to be one of the track layers for the TDX tests. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to see the retriever ratings and learn more about what was required to achieve these Weimaraner Club of America titles. When I heard they needed help, I volunteered there, as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I mailed off my entries for the field seminar and one day of obedience and rally held by the host club, the Weimaraner Club of Greater St. Louis.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, June 3rd, I packed everything we'd need for the week into my SUV and Rigby and I headed off to St. Louis! We had a great trip with wonderful weather, arrived and settled in to our home for the week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tracking tests were scheduled to be held on Monday, June 5, so the work of plotting the tracks had to be done the day before, Sunday. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The plan was to meet in the parking lot of the welcome center at 8:00, ready for a day of plotting tracks. I was happy to see Gretchen Stephenson, one of the judges, and Jill Paige, two Weim people I am acquainted with! It was also good to see Jack Sappenfield, who I had met at a tracking test a few years earlier. The other tracking judge was Tony Ginter, from Kentucky, and it was a pleasure to meet and get to know him.</span><br />
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Jack driving, Gretchen in front and Tony in the back.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday evening was an enjoyable dinner with Jack, Gretchen, Tony, Jill, Linda Bailey, Mary Ellen Macke and her husband, thanks for a nice time out!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In an effort to avoid the heat and to give the dogs the best chance to pass their tracks, the first TD track was put in at 5:45 a.m. on Monday morning. The draw was held at the tracking test headquarters in the Welcome Center parking lot at 6:15 a.m., where a small crowd gathered to watch the activities.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These Build A Bear boots with ginger bear treats inside were the draw articles. <br />
I offered to provide them as they have always been a hit at our local tracking test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jill returning from putting in TDX Track 1.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tony and Gretchen, the judges.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greg Newton drew TD Track 1.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anne McPherson drew TD Track 3.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tuesday, June 6, it was time for the retriever ratings, so Rigby and I were up early and off to the fields to watch and help a bit. Once again it was a time to greet friends from the past and make many new acquaintances.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They started with the field retrieves and I helped by shooting a revolver loaded with blanks as a bird was thrown into the field for the dogs to retrieve. It was fun to watch the action and see the dogs work the field to find the birds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the most fun people I met at Nationals this year is Jeni Roosen! She is full of fun and quite a unique character. She had some good days, some not so good days and one VERY GOOD day at Nationals, when her girl went BOW and finished her CH. These following photos give a bit of an insight into what a fun person Jeni is -- don't miss those socks!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the afternoon it was the Field Seminar, where Rigby got to hunt birds for the first time. I learned that my serious girl would rather point birds than play with them and she held a steady point on a bird for 10 minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a fun and educational afternoon! Many thanks to Diane Vater and Chuck Cooper for giving their time to put on the seminar -- and all their helpers, too!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tuesday evening I attended the welcome party hosted by the Weimaraner Club of Greater St. Louis, held in the upstairs of the Event Center. They had a nice selection of warm appetizers and it was a very enjoyable time visiting with friends and discussing the events that had transpired to that point. Each attendee was given a luggage tag with the WCA logo, another nice souvenir of the week.</span>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wednesday was my last day at Nationals, even though the real WCA competition started on Thursday. I decided that if I was taking a week off I needed to use some of that time to visit my parents in Ohio, and so I only entered obedience and rally on Wednesday, the trial hosted by the Weimaraner Club of Greater St. Louis.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since Rigby was not ready to show in Grad. Novice or Open, we entered Novice B, even though she already has her title. In rally we entered Advanced Rally B, a new venture for us, as she only has her Novice Rally title.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was satisfied with our showing, getting a second place in Novice B obedience and a third in Advanced Rally. Here's some photos from the day, this group was taken by the professional photographer on site.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some final thoughts from my week: Yes, it was a good decision. I had a wonderful time, met lots of new Weim friends and can't wait till the next time I'm able to attend the Weimaraner National Specialty!! Perhaps we'll even enter the Most Versatile Weimaraner competition!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Best parts of the week -- seeing people I had met in the past and making new friends. Spending so much time around Weim people and their dogs. Spending time with Rigby and seeing how well she handled all our travels and time away from home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regrets and lessons learned -- next time I'll find a place to stay closer to the event. Oh, and that outfit I wore to show obedience -- poor choice on my part!! We live and learn!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A big thank you to the WCA, the WCA Board, the National Show Committee and everyone who makes this wonderful event happen!! A special thank you to all who make the performance part of the Nationals such a big success! It is so important to showcase the versatility, talent and intelligence of our special breed!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to start training for next time!! And, Harley, I'll try to take you next time, too!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-6762250868532492162016-04-20T06:51:00.000-07:002016-04-20T06:51:03.052-07:00Lakeshore Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club VST Seminar 2016<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Dan and I set off on an adventure on Friday, April 15, 2016, heading to Delavan, Wisconsin with Rigby to attend a Variable Surface Tracking (VST) seminar. It was a long drive, but mostly easy, the exception being the area around Chicago during rush hour.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The seminar was well worth the trip! I was struggling to figure out how to teach asphalt and concrete surfaces to Rigby so that she understood her job in this new situation. I feel I came home with a toolbox full of ideas, exercises and a much better idea of how we should proceed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Beth Walker was the presenter at the seminar. Beth is a tracking judge with over 20 years of tracking experience who has put Champion Tracker titles on 4 of her Belgian Tervuren. She freely shared what she has learned about tracking on concrete and asphalt and the method she has developed to achieve the success she has with her dogs and the dogs of her students.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The seminar format was two-fold, morning and afternoon lectures on training VST, including exercises to work starts, placement of articles to teach and reward the dogs, conditioning, handling and testing. The lectures were alternated with workshops for dogs and handlers, with 10 total teams working during the weekend, five on Saturday and five on Sunday. Beth plotted and laid 5 tracks in the morning and 5 in the afternoon each day and the five working dogs ran a morning and afternoon track. The tracks were laid in the Delavan Business Park on grass, asphalt, concrete and mulch, were each about 200 to 250 yards long and were aged to about 2 1/2 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Saturday was Rigby's day to work and she was assigned the first track. I, of course, was quite nervous to be the first tracker and arrived at the start flag without Rigby's tracking harness, a true novice mistake! Once that was remedied Rigby set off on her track, which started on grass, went about 60 yards to a right turn, still in the grass, and into an asphalt parking lot. A few feet into the parking lot was an article, placed to let Rigby know she was correct and to give me a chance to reward her. She continued on after the article to a turn on the asphalt to the left. She worked it a bit and when she moved in the correct direction, I was instructed to go with her to help her know she was correct. She came to her next article at a curb leading into an island that was covered in mulch. She tracked across the mulch and back onto the asphalt until she came to another left turn which took her back to the grass and her final article. She did a nice job, but there was a lot of help from me to let her know she was right, an attempt to start to build her confidence about tracking on solid surfaces.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Now, I have to admit that Rigby's track was all a blur to me and it all happened so quickly it seemed as if we had only gone about 100 yards. I was able to sort of relive the track the next day when one of the Sunday dogs ran the same track 24 hours later. It was fun to watch a Corgi on Rigby's track and it helped me to remember much more about what Rigby and I experienced.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The second track on Saturday was run by a 10-year-old Golden Retriever who did a lovely job. The really tough part about this track was the sidewalk, which the dog wanted to avoid and wanted to track in the grass alongside of it. We were informed that sidewalks are very tough and we need to spend a lot of time training on sidewalks and for turns on sidewalks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Track 3 went to a Miniature Schnauzer who seemed to do very well on the asphalt. There was a turn behind a large truck and at the corner of a building, which brought in some air movement aspects and was interesting to watch. Again, article placement was used to reward the dog and help to teach turns and transitions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Track 4 was another Golden Retriever. This dog was a real thinker and you could just see how he was working so hard, trying to figure out the puzzle that had been put in front of him. He did a great job and was fun to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Track 5 was a young Corgi who found it relaxing to take a good roll in the grass before heading out on his track. He worked hard and seemed to be grasping the concept of tracking on surfaces and made his way to the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The afternoon tracks were similar to the morning, but it was interesting to see how the dogs were already catching on to what was expected of them. The Corgi did some really nice tracking on concrete, the two Goldens both improved, as did Rigby and the Schnauzer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Rigby's track in the afternoon was Track 9. It was grass to a left turn, to asphalt and a right turn, then a left turn onto grass, another left and back onto the asphalt where her final article was found. Even though the afternoon was warm and sunny Rigby had great enthusiasm on her second track and did a nice job. You could see that she was starting to catch on to the transitions and that she was willing to try this new type of tracking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Sunday brought another 5 dogs to the same tracks as were run on Saturday. Two of the Sunday dogs had more experience and it was interesting to see dogs who had been training in Beth's method were truly learning to track well on the solid surfaces.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Since I was not tracking on Sunday I brought my camera along and got some photos of the dogs tracking. These photos will be a help to me as a visual memory of what took place and to reinforce what tracking on asphalt and concrete can look like and how to handle article placement and treats.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second track Sunday was a Rottweiler. This dog and his owner had taken Beth's seminar a year ago and then they had some lessons with her over the summer. Watching a dog trained with Beth's methods was all the proof I needed to know that this style of training can really work and has in a variety of breeds of dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The third track Sunday went to a Golden Retriever who got his TD at the Golden Retriever Nationals, running his track, literally, in 2 and 1/2 minutes! He is a powerful tracker and a great working dog!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fourth dog to track on Sunday was a Border Collie who has also been taught with the methods we were learning about from Beth. Again, it was amazing to watch this dog work on the different surfaces and make the transitions so smoothly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This area of the country, Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois is known as the birthplace of variable surface tracking. The Delavan Business Park is a lovely site and is used for several VST tests each year and has the highest pass rate of any of the VST sites in the country. I'm hoping to travel back to the area again some time to learn more or, hopefully, for a test! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Delavan reminded me a lot of my hometown area, mostly flat with a lot of agriculture in the area. There was a pond just outside the business park and a block from the hotel where I walked Rigby Sunday morning, it was very peaceful and enjoyable. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The workshop came to an end much too soon for my liking, I could have used several more days of watching and learning. I think I got more benefit from this seminar than any other I have attended, as there was just so much information that I was able to take in, understand and that will be easy for me to put to use.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Lakeshore Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club did a great job with all aspects of the weekend and were wonderful hosts. We had nice accommodations, great food (and plenty of it) and even some delicious and adorable Corgi cookies to make the event more festive. Thanks again to Beth, Gina and Sharon for a great weekend of tracking and learning!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I met so many wonderful tracking folks and enjoyed getting to know them and their dogs. I look forward to keeping track of the other attendees and cheering them on in their future tracking test passes and congratulating them on their Champion Tracker titles!</span><br />
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-79015679425710585572015-11-28T18:46:00.001-08:002015-11-28T18:46:20.302-08:00Beginning Variable Surface Training<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> On Rigby's first week of tracking after her TDX I decided to keep it easy, make it fun, but introduce some new things, as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Week 2 I put her track mostly in the fields where she was used to tracking over the years, but brought it down the horse path to exit the field, crossed the road and finished the track on the more contaminated grass where more people and dogs walk, including crossing the asphalt walking trail. I let her track age about an hour and a half before running it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She did quite well with the track in the fields, although she didn't recognize a plastic article as an article, but when encouraged to pick it up, she readily retrieved it to me. She had little trouble on the horse path and crossed the road easily. The tough part was the shorter grass where lots of dogs and people walk and play. She did work through the challenge and found the glove. I reminded myself that I need to put the tougher challenges earlier in the track so that she's fresher to work on the harder areas of the track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Week 3 was Thanksgiving week and I chose to track her on Thanksgiving day when stores were closed and parking lots available without traffic. I went to a local strip mall area where there were many types of surfaces available in one place -- this is a newly developed area and has a lot of rough area with little to no grass with lots of remnants of construction still existing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Her track started on a short patch of grass and, after about 35 yards, crossed an asphalt entrance to the parking lot and then across an area of very hard dirt and stone with no vegetation, and a sock article left along the way. The track then crossed another asphalt entrance to the parking lot and went into an area of mulch and some decorative plantings. About 30 yards into the mulch there was a left turn to cross a 2-lane road and into a field that, again, was very hard and had some weeds here and there, a right turn and then a right turn back across the road and into the parking lot where after about 60 yards there was a left turn on the asphalt. On the second asphalt leg there was an article, a small change purse, and then a curb to a field and an immediate right turn to go across that field. This was the longest leg, around 180 yards and was a mixture of stone, weeds and long hay-type grass that was mostly dead. About midway through the field I left a cloth article. At the end of that field there was a right turn to nice green grass, a crossing of an asphalt entrance to the parking lot to another 50 yards of grass and the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We ran the track at about 45 minutes old and Rigby handled the various surfaces quite well. She had hardly any trouble on the first stone lot and found the article. At first the mulch threw her, but once she actually started tracking she did well and found the turn. The field with weeds was harder for her and I had to hold her at the turns till she worked at it and found the turn. The second turn in that field was much easier for her. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The asphalt parking lot with the turn was the hardest for her -- she doesn't understand yet that she needs to actually track on the asphalt, she thinks she just crosses it, as she has the roads to this point, but she'll catch on in time. She stopped at the turn point and did make the turn, but I think she was air scenting the hot dog that was a ways down that leg, rather than following my scent.</span><br />
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<br />Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-88096468528812869092015-11-08T16:48:00.000-08:002015-11-09T19:14:02.208-08:00OUR TDX ADVENTURE, Thank goodness for happy endings!<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't posted very much lately on Facebook or on my blog about tracking, but Rigby and I have continued to work and train consistently. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I quit reporting on our tracking because I made the decision to enter Rigby in a TDX test. Wasn't sure if she was ready, but knew she could do all the aspects of a TDX. Thought it was time to get our feet wet and try our first test. I knew our only weakness was experience, and I felt that even if we entered a test and didn't pass that we could learn valuable lessons and see what we needed to concentrate on in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First I entered the Mt. Nittany tracking test. We ended up 2nd alternate and Dan and I drove over with Rigby the day of the test in case someone backed out or didn't show. The 1st alternate would get the backup track if it wasn't needed to replace another track and so we were just one dog away from a having a testing track. But it was not to be for us that day, everyone showed up and we sadly watched all 6 dogs fail.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I entered the Buckeye Tracking Club test and anxiously awaited the closing date and the draw. Lo and behold, we got chosen first in the draw and were in our first TDX test! I was happy that one of the judges was Ken Barna, a judge for Rigby's TD and one of our club's judges last year, so I knew I'd see at least one familiar face.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the Mt. Nittany test one weekend and my local club's test the following weekend, Rigby didn't get to track for 2 weeks. One of my tracking buddies was kind enough to go out with me on Monday, November 2nd, and lay a track for Rigby to give her a chance to stay sharp. Rigby ran that 2-hour track beautifully and gave me hope for the weekend test.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning we headed out at 7:30, a 2 and a half hour drive, an 11:30 draw time. The test was held at the Notre Dame Education Center, in Chardon, Ohio. The location is a school and a convent (the premium mentioned that we might have a nun walk across our tracks). It's a lovely site with a pond, orchards, a creek, mowed grass and higher cover in some areas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we came upon the test site we missed the driveway to the pre-school across the road where the test headquarters was located, so we drove a bit up the road, through a light and I found a driveway to turn around in. I put on my blinker and started turning when I heard screeching of tires and then that dreaded thud and wondered how we could be hit, we were driving slowly and I had used my blinker. Well, two young men on the way to the Buffalo Bills game decided we were going too slowly and proceeded to pass us on a double yellow line.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We quickly checked on Rigby -- she seemed fine -- and Dan walked her to a quiet area in front of the car while I exchanged insurance information with the driver. When I asked the driver and his passenger if they were all right, I got an odd reply -- What do you mean, have we been drinking? Well, perhaps they had, who knows, but I didn't have time to deal with that, so I explained that I was inquiring about their well-being since we had just been in an accident. (They were in a hurry, as the accident happened at about 10:15 and the game started at 1:00 and I believe they had at least a 3-hour drive to get to Buffalo, then get to the stadium.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby had no trouble jumping back into the car, she seemed no worse for the wear, and we got turned around and made it to the test headquarters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The four TDX entrants all gathered in the parking lot and we passed the time talking and getting to know one another. The time flew and it gave me a chance to settle down from the shock of the accident and I was actually relaxed when it came time for the draw.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dogs in the TDX were a German Shepherd Dog, a German Shorthaired Pointer, a Smooth Collie and, of course, a Weimaraner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I drew first to find our track number and I was quite pleased to draw Track 2. The German Shorthaired Pointer ended up with Track 1, the GSD with Track 3 and the Collie had Track 4.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We formed a caravan with our vehicles and followed the judges as they drove across the road and entered the grounds of the education center, parked and prepared to watch the GSP on her track. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The two and a half year old GSP seemed to start nicely on short grass and made it to the field, where the grass was higher and I figured the dog would really start making time. The owner had told me her dog could be a bit timid, but I was not prepared for what we saw. They must have started their track at about 11:45 and finished about 12:45. There was someone using a chain saw in the area of the track and the dog was quite put off and frightened. She'd track 10 or 15 yards and then she would run back to her handler. This produced a very slow track. On top of that they had a 410 yard leg and I think that played some head games with the handler.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the next to the last leg, when the dog got far enough away from the chain saw noise, she really started tracking and it was a beautiful sight. They made the last turn and found the glove!! The first TDX pass of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Watching and waiting took a bit of a toll on me. I could only think how old our track was getting and wondered how Rigby would handle that. The couple times I had checked on Rigby in the car, I heard her whine and I knew she was anxious to get out and go tracking, a very good sign.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As soon as the GSP passed her test I got Rigby and I ready to go and we met the judges at the area of my flag. They asked if I had any questions and I said, Yes, how old is it? We all laughed and they assured me it was a legal track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then I happened to look up towards where we were going and my confidence was shattered! There in front of us was a tracking flag and I could see a start article laying at the bottom of the flag. I waited for the whistle, they'd have to blow us off before we ruined someone else's track, right? No whistle, no whistle. I didn't want to ruin another entrant's track, but Rigby wanted to keep going, so I was now totally upset.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I called to the judges and said that there was a flag. No answer. Again, I said, there's a flag, and the answer was, SO WHAT. So forward we went. Rigby picked up the start article and when I didn't call her to me she put it back down and we tracked on. My mind was screaming, no track is to be within 50 yards of another track. How could this happen??</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The judges started clapping, signifying a pass, but I turned toward them and shook my head. I was asked, How many articles do you have, and I replied, We're one short, we only have 3. Then they explained that we left the other article at the flag, but they knew we had found it so we were being credited for that article since the tracklayer had inadverently left the flag when she walked the track and the article was not a START article, but our article.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a happy day this was, to see my Rigby work so hard and do such a great job and to have Dan there to witness it was even nicer. Together we took Rigby back to the car where we gave her steak and salmon as special treats, well-deserved treats!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only photos I took today were of the damage to the vehicles at our car accident, but one of the judges was taking photos and so I'm hoping soon to have some photos of Rigby tracking that I can share and add to this post.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tracks are awarded randomly at the test to the dogs who were lucky enough to be entered. For the draw for tracks each handler, in order of catalog listing, chose a Kong key chain with a folded piece of paper with a track number -- we got Track 2. <br /> For passing the TDX we were awarded the green ribbon and a TDX patch.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, and the answer to my question of the judges about how old the track was? 3 hours and 45 minutes!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Total Yards: 815</span><br />
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-10973241431072836412015-04-26T08:55:00.000-07:002015-04-26T09:05:40.966-07:00Anything's Fair When It's Saturday Tracking<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Tracking practice days for the group I track with take place on Saturday mornings, most every Saturday morning -- usually it's only frigid cold or dangerous road conditions that will keep us from meeting up at the park.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since most tracking tests take place on Sundays (with plotting days on Saturday) there's always been a saying amongst the tracking group that anything is fair on Saturday, meaning if the track you put in for someone would not exactly be considered legal for a test track it's all good, this is training, not testing and we accept deviations, such as short legs, an article close to a turn, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past couple months most Saturdays have consisted of just Phil and I tracking together. Phil is known for putting in rugged, challenging tracks and, because he's been doing this for a while and is very familiar with the park, all tracks he lays are blind -- no markers to indicate where there are turns or articles. So having Phil lay your tracks is a great way to learn to really read your dog, because the dog is all you've got to find your way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quite often when we meet back at the cars after putting in tracks for each other's dogs Phil will say to me, "Remember, it's not personal, it's just training." </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On those days I know I'm in for a wild ride, probably lots of woods and steep, slippery hillsides in the woods. Over time I've found it fun to put in similar tracks for him and before we run his dog on the track I remind him that it's not personal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday when I finally made it back to the cars, taking almost an hour to put in a track for Como, Phil's Dalmatian who is working towards a TDX, I told Phil there was a new name for tracking with me -- Track with Nina and see the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phil chuckled and said, "Oh, you went to some new places today. So did I."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what happened, you might ask, that takes someone an hour to basically walk 800 to 1,000 yards? Well, sometimes you can get caught in a place where there's no way out and, unless you want to ruin a perfectly good track (at least to that point) you can't turn around and go out the way you came in, you have to find a way through whatever is blocking your path.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started Phil's track in an open field and all went great for the first 3 legs of the track. I gave him two blind turns and took the track through a short tree line into the next field and then, after the third leg, turned into the woods at the back of that field. The woods were open, not thick with growth, and I made my way deeper into the woods than we usually go, but it was so green and pretty and spring-like that I was just enjoying the scenery. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part way in I left the first article for Como to find, a small faux-leather change purse, with some chicken inside as a treat. When I got about 20 yards from the article drop I really looked around to see where to head next and that's when I realized that all of a sudden the growth had gotten very thick with lots of thorny growth and I was stuck in the middle of the woods with two choices -- either ruin a really nice track in the woods or blaze a new trail to get back to the fields to finsh the track. Thank goodness I had brought my clippers with me, I knew what I had to do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked up at the tops of the trees and tried to figure out which way was the shortest way out of the woods. I decided to go to my left and started clipping thorny branches and forcing my way through the dense undergrowth, forging a new path, battling my way to freedom -- <i>I know, a little dramatic, but, well, it kind of felt that way!</i> It took a lot of time, because it was so thick, but in time I finally made it back to a path we usually use for tracking and then I was out of the woods in no time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then took the track back through the cut at a point further along the field and was again in the field where the track started. The track then went across the field to the bottom, turned to follow the line of the woods on the far side of the field and then another turn towards the front of the field where I had started the track -- I left the second article on that leg that was about a hundred yards long. I put in two more short legs and left the glove at the end of the track.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all my measurement of the track was close to 800 yards, shorter than I usually put in for Phil, but long enough because of the time spent in the woods and the difficulty there might be for Phil and Como to navigate the close quarters getting through the woods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The track was aged for 2 1/2 hours before it was run, but Como did a great job. She found her way to the first article in the woods and then I reminded Phil that he was going to need to use the two words <b>EASY</b> and <b>WAIT</b> a lot before we left the woods, as the dogs can always make it through the brush so much quicker than we humans can, as we're sometimes forcing our way through the thickets and stepping over logs or avoiding vines. I had marked the path through the woods heavily with clothes pins with pink surveyors tape tied to them so that Phil knew exactly where the track went, and I was so relieved when we were all out of the woods and back to field tracking!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Como continued on the track back to the first field, made the turns, found the second article and then went on to the glove!</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">As for Rigby's track, she had a very nice start on a track that was aged about 2 hours. She made the first turn and headed diagonally uphill across the field. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was moving at a good pace on this second leg when I heard Phil tell me to stop that there should be an article right about where I was, that Rigby had passed up. Missing an article is quite odd for Rigby, I always feel really confident in her ability to find and retrieve articles -- but not this time. I looked around and just to my right I saw a small, black article. It was a business card holder made of faux leather. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stopped Rigby's forward progression and I backed up and called her to me, giving her another chance to find the article. She still didn't find it. I told her to "find it" and she started circling and circling, going right over the article, but still never indicating it. Finally I picked it up and showed it to her and threw it a few times for her to fetch and bring to me before I gave her her usual treat of canned salmon for finding an article. Phil told me Rigby and I would be seeing a lot more of that business card holder article in the future, so I'm sure she'll get better at finding it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we continued on her track up to some piney woods that split that field from the upper field. She did well in the woods, came out turned left and tracked parallel to the woods, to the next right turn that went uphill further into the field. Another right turn and Rigby found the second article, a leather wallet, which she retrieved to me (and I gave a sigh of relief that her article finding skills were still intact.) After celebrating the article find with another small container of salmon we were off again and there was another right turn heading us back downhill.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A left turn took us into the woods to the side of the hill and I shortened up my line and slowed Rigby down as much as I could. Phil had opened up a new path for us and it was mostly downhill, through woods, over logs -- a challenge to keep my footing while holding a tracking line and watching where I was going, let alone keeping track of Rigby and constantly slowing her down. The slowing her down worked wonders for her tracking and she followed Phil's winding track trough the woods with amazing accuracy and found the final glove resting on the forest floor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must have done at least 75 yards in that stretch of woods alone. My handling in the woods has gotten better, as the line never got tangled as it has in the past and I was able to keep Rigby from moving at her usual breakneck speeds!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a reward, and to save me from being dragged through the rest of the woods back to the cars, I let Rigby have some off leash time as we all made our way down a deer trail and across the creek to the edge of the woods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a fun day tracking, as usual, with new trails blazed and happy dogs at the end.</span></span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-19093593359282104922015-04-24T19:18:00.000-07:002015-04-26T07:28:04.399-07:00THE START OF RIGBY'S OBEDIENCE AND RALLY CAREER<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite things about this blog is that it's a great way for me to keep track of Rigby's show career and record everything in one place where I can find it so easily. I'll admit that I write this blog for myself, but I do enjoy sharing it with those who care to read it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Rigby and I first entered the rally ring in September of 2014 and the obedience ring in February of 2015. The purpose of this post is to record our experiences in the ring, our successes, our failures, our scores and placements. Periodically I'll do updated posts in an effort to keep a history of Rigby's advancement in her obedience and rally career.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our first time in the ring was a total disaster! We entered Rally Novice B at the rally trial put on by the local German Shepherd club on Sunday, September 14, 2014. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Rigby was all excited and hyped up and I had little to no attention. She pulled at the end of the leash and for most of our time in the ring was almost out of control. I was careful not to pull on her and it was obvious to the judge, Jeff Showman, that the tight lead was due to Rigby's antics and so we were not excused and did make it through all the excercies, but NQ'ed due to the deductions for tight lead, out of position, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It was a bit of an embarassing performance, but I learned that Rigby needs to be crated for several hours at the show site before she is ready to go in the ring -- I had crated her in the car that day and only brought her into the building shortly before going in the ring.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">September 19, 2014 Rigby was entered in Rally Novice B in two trials on the same day at Clarion Canine Obedience Club. Learning from our earlier experience, we arrived early at the show site and I set up the crate and sat with Rigby through the Excellent and Advanced classes, giving her time to settle in and get used to the environment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our first time in the ring that day was quite an improvement from the first time, but Rigby was happy to see the judge, Karen Schroeder, and did several leaps here and there resulting in too many tight leads and, once again, an NQ.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Back in the crate Rigby went to await her second time in the ring that day. Shortly before her class I took her outside and worked with her, trying to get her attention on me, reminding her of why we were there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Then it was time to go back in the building and give it another try. Waiting to go in the ring I got a feeling that there was a change in Rigby, she seemed to be remembering that we were a team, she was actually listening to me and giving me attention. We scored an 80 and got our first Rally Novice leg! She would have had a 90, except that I messed up on the second sign and didn't have her sit!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our final entry into the rally ring in 2014 was at the WCOTC trials in Delmont on Friday, September 26th. Once again that time in her crate at the show site seemed to work for Rigby and she got her second Rally Novice leg with a great score of 94!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">February 1st of 2015 was Rigby's debut in the obedience ring. The local Sheltie specialty was being held at the Washington County Fairgrounds, just a few miles from our home. Although the rally trials were Sheltie only, the obedience trials allowed other breeds to enter and compete, so I entered Rigby in Beginner Novice B.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We attended the Obedience B match on Friday night at the show site to give Rigby a chance to see the building and acclimate to the venue. On Sunday I showed her in Beg. Novice a</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">nd she did a very nice job, earning a score of 193.5 and getting 1st place. A nice start to her obedience career!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rigby earned her CGC title on April 28th, 2015.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Three weeks before the trials there were run-thrus held at the YABTC training building and Rigby and I drove to Ohio and spent the day doing run thrus in Novice Obedience and Rally Novice. It was a long day, but well worth the trip, another good day of training for Rigby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">On Good Friday, April 3, 2015, Rigby earned her Rally Novice title at the first trial of the day at Youngstown with a score of 97. Then in the second trial she did just a bit better and got a 98 and a 3rd place!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Friday, April 24, 2015, Rigby and I traveled to Morgantown, West Virginia to show in Beginner Novice and Rally Novice. This was Rigby's first time to be shown at an all-breed conformation show run in conjuction with the companion sport events and there was a lot more activity in this building than Rigby had ever been exposed to before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We were fourth in the ring for Beg. Novice and my nerves were pretty much shot, I allowed too many little circumstances to bother me and get me upset -- a good lesson to learn, concentrate on me and my dog and let the other things go, stay in the moment with my dog and our journey!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Rigby earned her second Beginner Novice leg with another nice score of 192, but she actually lost a point on the recall when she hesitated in coming to me when called -- quite a diference from her usual performance where she streaks across the room into a perfect front. I really think that my nerves affected her to the point that she just wasn't sure she wanted to come running to me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I have Rigby entered in a trial in May where I hope she will complete her Beginner Novice title. She will also be competing in a Sub Novice class which is like the old Pre Novice class, everything on a 6-foot lead, including a one-minute sit stay and a three-minute down stay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You were a great class, lots of fun, wonderful puppies and great owners. I wish you all the best of luck with your pups in the future and hope each of you continues on with your training!</span></div>
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<br />Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-74490033547744716802014-12-15T12:54:00.003-08:002014-12-15T12:54:32.786-08:00TDX Training -- The First Two Months<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time for a review! Eight weeks have passed and Rigby has been training every week for the TDX level of tracking. I've been keeping a journal and I thought I'd take time to do some contemplating on how we're doing and what we need to work on next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What did we do in the first two months?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Length</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">440 400 650 650 835 730 650 700</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Age</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">: </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">45 30 90 90 70 100 135 90</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Articles</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">: There have been at least 2 intermediate articles on each of Rigby's tracks and she's found them each time. She retrieves the articles to my hand and gets a nice reward, usually salmon, for her effort. Her restarts took some time to develop, but she now seems to understand that the track doesn't end with the articles and she happily heads back down her track. Articles have been in open fields and in the woods. So far all articles have been cloth or leather.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obstacles</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">: We've worked change of cover, short grass to tall; woods; dirt roads; stone roads</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starts</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">: We've consistently worked our starts at different angles and Rigby seems to have no problem finding the track. Her toughest day was the track that was over 2 hours old, and that makes perfect sense. On a day that is good for aging I'll work starts, laying three short tracks each one getting gradually older, to extend her ability to find older scents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've put in 2 of her 8 tracks, which is nice when learning something new, I know where the track goes, so I don't have to guess if she's right and can praise her at the optimum time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The biggest improvement I've seen, especially the past two weeks, are Rigby's restarts after finding an article. At first she would go back down the track and stop at the point where she found the article and then return to me. I had to encourage her to start to track again. With one small aid, a piece of hot dog placed about 10 yards past the article, she now knows that the track is not over and she eagerly moves off again after receiving her treat for finding the article.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although there's usually one place each track that we need some aid from the track layer, I can't say she has had a bad tracking day yet. Rigby always works hard, never quits and gives it her all. She quivers in anticipation at the start flag and </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">seems happy after every track</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. So another goal will be to keep her attitude at this level and continue to make tracking fun by introducing more challenges.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saturday Rigby and I drove to the Cleveland, Ohio area and spent the night in Westlake at a Red Roof Inn. This was only Rigby's third night in a hotel and the noises outside our room still make her a bit anxious and neither of us got a very good night's sleep. But come morning we were both ready to head out and have some tracking fun!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The weather was perfect for tracking! After quite a bit of rain Saturday, Sunday was cloudy and cool, great for holding scent on the track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived early for the draw of the tracks which was to be held at 8:30. The other TD entrant, Karen Phillips, and I were sent to a nearby cemetery to keep us out of sight while our tracks were laid. Karen and I kept ourselves busy reading the weathered </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">headstones and wondering about the lives of the people buried in this old graveyard.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we had a few moments to exercise our dogs before it was time for the draw. I played fetch with Rigby with a glove for a few moments, trying to make sure she was in a tracking frame of mind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Karen was No. 1 in the catalog and she was the first to draw. The draw gifts were large bags of homemade dog treats with one treat being in the shape of a glove. Karen's treat bag had a 2 on the bottom of it, meaning she got the second track. Of course, that meant that Rigby and I had the first track! </span><br />
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I went and got Rigby from the car, gathered up her harness and tracking line and headed for the start flag. The judges, Ken Barna and Steve Ripley, told me that the track was properly aged and I could start when we were ready. I put Rigby's harness on, fastened the line to the D-ring and encouraged her to start tracking.</div>
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While in between the two start flags Rigby hesitated a bit and searched off to the side of the track a bit, but with another word or two of encouragement she settled in and started down the first leg.</div>
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Honestly, I don't remember a lot about the track, it all went pretty quickly and I spent most of my energy trying to stay upright and not inhibiting Rigby's forward motion. I thought the only things I said to her were the words, "Yes", "Easy" and "Nice turn," but I was informed by more than one person that at some point along the test I said to her, "Easy, don't kill me!" So it gives you an idea of what was going through my mind.</div>
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The field her track was in went from scrub grass to areas of short mowed grass, back to higher grass, then into the short grass again. There was a small ditch that I'm so glad that Rigby stopped and stood in, so that I saw it and didn't fall over it. One time she also paused when the track went back into the high grass, turned and looked at me, as if asking if it was okay to do the change of cover. I told her, "Yes," and off she went again.</div>
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I started to remind her to look for the glove on the next to last leg, I knew we were getting close. She made that last turn just before the woods, toward the road, so I knew the glove was in that stretch of land and, sure enough, she paused and I could see the glove. She gladly brought it back to me and I whooped in joy, as did the judges and gallery!!</div>
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I'm happy to report that Rigby was not the only dog earning a tracking title today! Karen Phillips and her Golden Retriever also passed their TD test and Kim Cassida and her Belgian Tervuren got their TDX title!!</div>
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The CABTC doesn't give ribbons for the passing dogs, instead I got a fob with the letters TD and pretty stones, that I can hang on Rigby's crate or somewhere else in the car. The fob was made by club member Karen Phillips. I also got to choose a prize from among a variety of items and I chose a blue leather lead that should look nice on Rigby. Of course, we also got to keep the glove that Rigby found at the end of her track!</div>
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-63206534675982225242014-09-13T12:00:00.000-07:002014-09-13T12:00:35.460-07:00We're Certified, But, Oh, What a Day of Craziness It Was<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a true story, you just can't make up things like this. To protect the innocent, the names of the participants in this story have been changed, <i>and those of you familiar with all those involved might find some humor in the way the identities have been "shielded."</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two weeks ago when I made the plans to try to certify Rigby for an AKC tracking test I never gave a thought to the fact that the date would fall on September 13th! I was born on the 13th and have always considered it a lucky number, not a number to avoid. I've never had triskaidekaphobia, even on those times when the 13th fell on a Friday! After this morning I might be changing my opinion and never schedule anything of importance on the 13th of any month!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It started from the time my alarm went off at 5:45 a.m. -- I fell back to sleep and woke up at 6:08, not terribly late, but it put my morning into high gear to get ready to leave for the park and not forget anything, especially the harness, the line and plenty of good treats for Rigby!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had hoped for a cool morning for our certification test, looking forward to dew on the grass, and hoping for no rain -- I just don't like to track in rain (Rigby could care less, she'll track in anything). As soon as I started driving toward the park the rain started to fall -- at least it was just a very light rain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the way to the park I called one of my fellow trackers, Allen, to let him know that I'd be a few minutes late -- didn't want them to think I had chickened out at the last minute!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived at the park to find out that I was not the only one who had overslept this morning. The tracking judge who was to do the certification had a malfunction with her alarm clock, woke up late and decided not to come out to track. Thankfully the tracking judge, Phyllis, called Allen to relay this message and Allen reminded Phyllis that she had agreed to do a certification track for Rigby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So now we had extra time to wait before the certification track would be ready to run, more time for my stomach to get tight and the nerves to take over.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To keep me busy, I was assigned the task of laying track for one of the other TD dogs, Greta, and I put in her track and then followed along as she expertly followed my scent, making her always precise turns, finding a few hot dogs along the way, till she arrived at the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As we were finishing up Greta's track Phyllis arrived and, after a brief discussion with Allen, left to lay the certification track. I headed in the opposite direction to lay a track for Phyllis' dog, Perry, that would be run after Rigby's certification attempt. I was finding it tough to keep my mind on the tracks I was laying, getting anxious to see how Rigby would track on this damp September morning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally it was time to head out to the field where Rigby's track would be run. I got her out of the car, we headed to the start flag, harnessed her up and away she flew. The track started in the very center of a large field that we normally divide in half to make two tracking fields. I was surprised when Rigby's first turn went to the right, as I thought that that side of the field had been used for the track of another TD dog that had not yet run his track. But Rigby's indication was true and off we went.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby was moving very quickly and I was just trying to stay with her and watch for indications of the next turn, but what she did seemed very odd, she dropped down about 10 yards and then seemed to follow a track that ran a bit lower than the previous track we were on. To my dismay I heard Phyllis call to me, which meant that we were off track and we would not certify. Then Phyllis signaled for me to look ahead of where we were and I saw two start flags about 70 yards away, it was obvious that two tracks had been plotted in the same field, and the second one had hot dogs on it, as it was a training track, not a testing track. This meant that our certification track had been fouled and Phyllis agreed to put in a new track in a field that had not been used already.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You might wonder how this could have happened. Well, so do we. All I can tell you is that sometimes communications get crossed and the wrong messages sent. Phyllis thought she had the entire field to work with and Allen, who laid the other track, thought Phyllis was using only the far end of this large field.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My concerns were with Rigby. She was tracking with great motivation when suddenly she was pulled off the track with no chance to finish or find a glove. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've always been told this is not something you want to do with your tracking dog as it can be demotivating. I took Rigby back to the car and put her in her crate and gave her some hot dogs while telling her what a good dog she was.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was beginning to think that this was just not meant to be the day that we would get to certify, nothing was going right.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left the area while the new track was plotted and put in. Thankfully I was able to go watch Allen track his Irish Water Spaniel (well, she almost looked like one after her track) Zsa Zsa, which took my mind off another wait for our track to be ready.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We drove back down to the field and were told that the track was ready to run. Suddenly a car swerved off the road and into the parking area between my vehicle and Phyllis' van. A man jumped out of the car and almost ran over to Phyllis asking for directions to someplace he was trying to find, all they while ranting about how he dislikes Pennsylvania. Just what I needed, another delay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once the man was dispatched with the needed directions, I got Rigby out of her crate and we headed to the start flag for the second time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was no problem with motivation with this dog.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She tracked as true as she usually does.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headed up to the corner of the field that always gives her problems.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made that turn and tracked across the top of the field.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She found the glove with no problem, retrieved it to me and passed her certification track in a mere 5 minutes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading back to the cars after the track.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So now I'll be sending my entries in to try to get a place in a tracking test this fall. But you can be sure that I won't be entering any tests that fall on the 13th of the month!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later in the morning, while heading out to track Phyllis' dog, one of the other trackers mentioned that he sometimes has his birthday fall on Friday the 13th. Ironically, Phyllis said her birthday is also on the 13th and I said, mine too! Then we started comparing months and I found out that both Phyllis and I were born on January 13th, although not the same year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>NOTE FOR NON-TRACKERS:</b> Are you wondering what it means to certify a dog in tracking? Well, in order to enter a tracking test a dog must first be certified by a tracking judge that the dog and handler are able to pass a tracking test. So, in essence, before I can enter Rigby in a tracking test we have to pass a test with the same requirements, to prove we can do it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-9842053105292219232014-05-27T19:37:00.001-07:002014-05-27T19:49:03.841-07:00Rigby and the Memorial Day Tracking Challenge<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In an effort to keep moving forward in our tracking progress, I decided to lay a track for Rigby to start off the Memorial Day holiday. </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had taken her for a walk at the fairgrounds on Sunday, the day before, and it was then that I decided what her track would be the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday about half of the fairground fields were mowed, leaving areas of short and long grass that could be used. I thought this would be a good time to give Rigby a lesson in changes of ground cover, as well as giving her a chance to track on freshly mowed grass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started her track going downhill on the mowed grass for about 100 yards and then straight ahead into the long grass for about 30 yards. Then there was a right turn in the long grass, 30 yards of long grass and then into a lane of mowed grass that was about 20 yards wide and back into long grass again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second leg was a total of 110 yards and turned right, uphill, for 70 yards, to a left-hand slightly open turn across the grain of the hill. That third leg was 80 yards, with a right turn that continued the track uphill for 70 yards to the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby started from the first flag at 8:15 a.m. with a very nice start. She tracked the entire mowed portion of the first leg with no problem, only stopping a couple times to find a slice of hot dog. She also showed no hesitation when she reached the long grass, heading in right in. She showed loss of scent at the end of the leg, circled to the left and then picked up the right turn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She came to the mowed path and crossed it quickly. At the tall grass she did a bit of searching both below the track and above before choosing to head into the long grass on the track. She tracked quickly to the second turn and again circled left before taking the turn to the right and back up the hill. After another quick leg she found the left turn with little searching and made the open turn. She continued to the fourth turn and made the turn to the right, again uphill. She was moving a bit too quickly on this leg and tracked right over the glove until I called her back to find the end of the track. In hindsight, I should have thought to put some hot dog slices in the glove to aid her in finding it in the high grass.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started to play with Rigby following her track, and then remembered to check my watch. It was 8:21, only 6 minutes since we started the track, which means she did the track in about 5 minutes!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I thought would be a challenging track, with several changes of cover, ended up being nothing new to Rigby and she proved again her love of tracking and her wonderful scenting abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She ended the track soaked in dew from working in the tall grass. We ended our tracking time playing with the glove before walking out to pick up the start flags and putting away the equipment.</span></div>
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-421127505033047982014-05-02T23:00:00.000-07:002014-05-03T04:34:23.991-07:00Obedience Training Update<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't written any posts for a couple months so I'll try to catch up with a quick summary of Rigby's progress in her training.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Currently Rigby is training in three areas, tracking, obedience and agility. Her tracking continues to improve, as she is doing TD length tracks with up to four turns. Lately her obedience training has seemed to start coming together and she is making strides. She just started her second series of agility foundation classes and it is no surprise that she seems to love jumping and learning all the obstacles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week at her obedience class Rigby's heeling, including her figure 8, showed much more consistency in attention and smoothness. She did a stand for exam for the first time, having done a sit for exam in all her previous classes. Besides working the novice level exercises she did a recall on the flat AND over the high jump and also performed the broad jump exercise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby's level of maturity is displayed by her ability to relax more at class and during training. She is settling in more quickly when she arrives at a training site and it's easier for her to focus her attention on her training rather than all the other exciting things around her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Friday evening I got some video of Rigby heeling, doing some figure 8 work and doing a recall. The heeling shown here is not the best she can do (this video was taken after we had been training for quite some time that evening), but it gives an idea of where she is and shows her happiness in her work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a nice-sized class of 8 dogs and even through a couple months of horrible winter weather we kept up a very good attendance record as a whole.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dogs were all very quick learners and there was a lot of progress in behavior over the 8-week class.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a graduation exercise on the last night of our class I set up a rally course that included heeling, sits, downs, heeling through cones and a few tricky turns. The class also successfully completed their 30 second stays in the sit and down position. We also practiced our recalls one last time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack getting ready for the rally course.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy heeling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Max in the cones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another very nice sit by Bailey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bailey finishes her "finish."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "sit" ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... and the "down".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ares weaves through the cones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty sit, Ares!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the "down."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack shows a good "front."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Down, Jack."</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Congratulations to the whole class on a job well done!!</span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-84182267139124844262014-01-26T09:11:00.000-08:002014-01-26T12:29:45.636-08:00Four Good Weeks of Tracking<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday it was too cold and snowy to go out tracking, it was the first tracking day Rigby and I had missed in quite some time. To get my "tracking fix" this week I thought I'd review our last four tracks, as they each showed the value of a good tracking foundation and the progress Rigby is making.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The system of tracking training I've been taught consists basically of "teaching" the dog to track on multiple straight tracks, starting with 10 to 15 yard tracks and gradually lengthening them till the dog is doing several hundred-yard straight tracks in one outing. The aging of the tracks comes naturally with the lengthening of the tracks, as the additional time needed to lay a longer track and wait for the track layer to return to the start flag adds time to the age of the track. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby was given a very strong foundation on straight tracks, as we spent months making sure she had all the skills on a straight track before adding in the element of a turn. She needed to have a good start, she needed to stay right on the track, no weaving back and forth, and she needed to have her nose down, truly following the track as laid. During this learning period I follow right behind her, within six feet or so, to make sure she has no chance to deviate from the desired tracking form.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although at times I got tired of straight track after straight track and I was just sure my girl could do more, I stayed with the program as presented by my tracking mentors and didn't push to go faster than we should.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby then started to learn turns, from very gradual open angle turns that progressively became 90 degree turns. At first her tracks had one turn and she would do a couple one-turn tracks each tracking day. Then she started two-turn tracks and then two tracks, each with two turns.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After months of what felt like crawling when I wanted to run, we seemed to hit the learning curve that everyone was looking for and all of a sudden all the foundation training came together and it was decided that Rigby was ready to really move forward with more advanced tracks and challenges. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The past four weeks of tracking really demonstrated these advancements and I wanted to memorialize them here, as much for me, as for anyone else.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was our first week tracking at a location other than Mingo Creek County Park. We tracked at Rockin' V Stables, the farm of my friends Sam and Lin Viviano. It was a crisp winter morning, with snow covering the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby's track was laid by Phil and it was a two-turn track with three very long legs. That in itself was nothing new for Rigby, but the challenge on this track was that Phil accidentally dropped one of his gloves on a leg of the track and Rigby had her first intermediate article and the challenge of re-starting after she found that glove.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby did find the lost glove, retrieved it and got her praise. Then when asked to continue tracking, headed right back out and completed her track happily, finding the glove at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other nice thing for me about this day of tracking was that my friend, Lin, joined us to watch two of the dogs run their tracks. I'm glad she had an opportunity to learn a bit about tracking and to see the enthusiasm that Rigby has for tracking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was the second week of tracking at the Rockin' V Stables. The day was much colder than the week before, but with the sun shining and an hour later start time, by the time Rigby's track was laid it turned out to be a beautiful tracking day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were several inches of snow on the ground this day and it made it very easy for me to know exactly where Phil had laid the track. Rigby left the start flag with her usual quick speed, making quick work of the first leg. She turned left and headed downhill toward a road. By the time she reached the bottom of the hill she was pulling me so hard that we overshot the turn. I backed up a few yards and waited while she searched and then found the right-hand turn and started down the third leg. The next turn was also to the right and Rigby had no trouble following the track. We tracked uphill now to an open turn to the right, she worked the fourth leg very easily until she found the glove.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was Rigby's first 4-turn track and the longest track she had done so far. It was exciting to see how she has progressed and how easy tracking has become for her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This tracking day was a Sunday, back at Mingo Park. Although the day was chilly, it was much warmer than the previous two weeks and the snow had been melted in the rains the previous couple of days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ellen laid Rigby's track this time and, because we had fewer dogs in attendance, she used most of the first field at the entrance to the park. Rigby's track was about 440 yards, with 4 turns.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby had a nice start and a great first leg. The first turn was to the right and headed uphill, she had no trouble with the turn. The next turn went left, across the hill and she tracked with her usual speed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next was an open turn to the left and back downhill. Rigby indicated the turn twice, but I wasn't sure she was correct. On her third indication I went with her and, of course, she was right on. The last turn went to the right and across the hill. The scent seemed to have rolled downhill a bit and she stayed a bit low to the true track as she went along. Suddenly I saw the glove right in front of me, but Rigby had missed it, as she was not quite on the track. I backed up a little and asked her to find the glove, which she did with little hesitation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This track was particularly rewarding to me, as there was no snow to indicate where the track was and it was reassuring to know that we could do the 4-turn track without the benefit of seeing the footprints in the snow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This Saturday we were back to the very cold temperatures and fresh snow that was a couple inches deep. The park was beautiful, all the trees covered with snow, and it was very quiet since few people had chosen to be in the park this day. Since it was mostly an overcast day it did not warm up as the other days had.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we first arrived at the park I got Rigby out of the car and she and Como greeted one another and played for a bit in the snow. I noticed that the extended time in the snow and cold did cause a bit of tenderness to Rigby's feet and worried about how this might affect her with tracking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To give Rigby less time with her feet in the snow, I put her harness on in her crate and then we headed out to her track. As we expected, she was so excited and happy about tracking that she didn't seem to notice the cold at all and she tracked the first leg, a left turn, an uphill second leg and then a right turn. She found the next turn and went right again. This leg was downhill and she and I both handled it better than the last downhill leg in the snow, she was a bit slower this day and I was able to keep up better and I also gave her a bit more line so that I did not hinder her efforts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Part way through this leg I started to notice that the cold was bothering Rigby's feet and she limped a bit on her left rear leg. Then a bit further she stopped dead in her tracks and held her right rear leg in the air. I thought we were done for the day, as I didn't want to cause any injury or frostbite, and so I reached forward and just wiped her foot off with my glove. With that she jumped back into tracking and within a short time found the glove. She then played with the glove and ran and played in the snow the entire way back to the cars.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess her challenge that day was to show what a tough girl she is and that she can work through discomfort to get to the goal that she knows has been set before her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week, with even colder temperatures, snow and wind, we stayed home, warm and safe. In place of tracking we were able to play fetch with a glove out in the snow for a short time and we both are hoping this weather changes soon and that we are out tracking again next week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2013 didn't go quite as I had planned and it brought many unexpected happenings for Rigby and our family. For Rigby it included a broken toe, surgery on her leg for an injury and a case of pyometra with an emergency spay. For Dan it was a pacemaker and for me knee surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All those interruptions in our training put us a bit behind in our training schedule, but we'll just have to work harder in 2014 to try to catch up!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby grew up so quickly and matured into a lovely young dog over the past year. Here's a bit of a review of 2013 in photos...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She loves to carry sticks on our walks and sometimes carries<br />
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incident, when she dyed her chest and legs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rigby learned the hard way not to get into Rocky's food dish.<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tracking was the one activity that Rigby and I were really able to train on a pretty regular schedule and she has shown a love for tracking, as well as great potential for the future. Here is a video of one of her tracks:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2013 I lost my best friend and my first Weim, my rescue boy Frankie. I miss him every day, his antics and his fun personality. He was always there to greet me when I came home and to comfort me after a bad day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby is doing well at filling in for Frankie, she reminds me of him in several things she does, such as inspecting all bags that come into the house and digging through the toy box to find just the right toy to play with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's to a great 2014 for all of Rigby's friends and family, including all the Grayhart puppies!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That day in January when Rigby broke her toe was one of the most stressful days I ever spent at a vet's office with my dogs. I didn't tell the whole story at that time because there were matters that needed to be addressed with the veterinary clinic, but at this point I think it's best that the real facts of what happened that day be told if, for no other reason, than to educate others about what can happen when you take your dog to a vet with all good intentions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I brought Rigby home I wanted to give her every chance to live a healthy life, so I decided to use a veterinarian who has the reputation of being the best doctor for Weimaraners in Western Pennsylvania. Because there are special vaccination protocols for Weim puppies that are very important and even though the trip to the vet's office was an almost 80-mile round trip, I felt it was worth the effort to get optimal care for my young pup. Some of you may have heard of this vet as he is known by Dr. Mike and has a Saturday morning radio show where he answers callers' questions. His veterinary clinic is known as Animal General and Rigby became a patient of his office, although she was never actually seen by Dr. Mike Hutchinson himself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following is a chronology of what happened that day and the week following:</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shortly
after 8:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 22, 2013, I called Animal General (AG) to see if I could get Rigby seen
for an injury to her right front leg.
Arrangements were made for me to drop her off to be seen by a
veterinarian and then to pick her up later in the day, after I attended a
business appointment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Around
9:30 a.m. I arrived at the AG office with Rigby and, shortly thereafter, we
were taken into an exam room by Dr. Marc (that's how he introduced himself to me).
Rigby’s temperature was taken and found to be normal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
explained to Dr. Marc that she had been fine until about midnight the night
before when I was taking her out for the last time of the night. I said that she had run down the basement
steps ahead of me and when I got to the bottom of the steps she was
limping. I also voiced the opinion that
I was worried that she might have caught a toenail in the carpeting on the
steps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her
leg was examined and she was found to have pain in her foot area. She voiced her discomfort with a “scream” of
pain. Dr. Marc said he would need to do
x-rays and I signed the paperwork necessary to have this done. I left
Rigby at the AG office and headed for home to get ready to go to my business
appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shortly
after I arrived home, around 11:00 a.m., I received a phone call from Dr.
Marc. He told me that no fracture was
shown on the x-ray. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He then told me that
they had done the x-ray of both of her legs so that they could compare her right and left legs
to get a better idea of what might be going on.
Dr. Marc told me that by the evidence he saw on the x-ray that there
were two possible diagnoses and that they are both associated with growing pains, hypertrophic
osteodystrophy (HOD) or panosteitis (pano).
He explained that pano is more often seen in males and, well, Rigby is a
female. He also said that Rigby fell
into the correct age range to have either of these problems. I asked him a couple questions about the
causes of both of these conditions and we discussed treatment options. He suggested putting Rigby on an NSAID and
limited activity. I gave him permission
to give her the first dose of the NSAID and said I would be back later in the
day to pick up Rigby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Realizing
that HOD is a recognized health problem in Weimaraners that can have serious
consequences if not treated in a timely manner, I contacted Rigby’s breeder and
co-owner, Linda Hartheimer, to ask for advice on what my next steps should
be. First and foremost, we wanted to get
a definitive diagnosis and get Rigby started on the treatment protocol if she
did have HOD. Secondly, we knew that we
wanted to have her included in the research being done on HOD in Weimaraners by
Noa Safra, DVM PhD at the University of California at Davis. Because Dr. Safra
is a friend of Linda’s, Linda called her to give her a heads up that we would
be in touch with her and sending x-rays and blood work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Around
1:30 p.m., since my business appointment had been cancelled, I was able to get
back to the AG office. By this time I
was pretty emotional, very worried about the future of my young pup. When Dr. Marc had time to see me he took me
into an exam room and showed me the x-ray and pointed out the area that he said
showed the evidence of the two possible diagnoses he had voiced earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
told Dr. Marc about the research being done on HOD in Weims and told him that
Dr. Safra had been contacted and was willing to speak with him. I told him that there was a treatment
protocol that needed to be followed to properly treat a Weim with HOD to get
the best results and that I would want to send blood samples and the x-ray to
Dr. Safra in California. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At
this point Dr. Marc began to waiver on his diagnosis, saying that the x-ray
wasn’t that clear because the pup had not been sedated for the x-ray and that now he couldn’t give a definitive diagnosis from the x-ray. He also suggested that I wait a month and
bring Rigby back to have x-rays done then, since what he was seeing on the
x-ray was very mild.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Knowing
that time is of the essence in treating HOD in Weims, I was quite surprised
that a suggestion to wait a month would be made. It was at this time that I really began to
have serious questions about Dr. Marc and what he was saying, and I knew that I had to take whatever steps were necessary to get a true, definitive diagnosis for Rigby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
AG office staff obtained Dr. Safra’s phone number from the Weimaraner Club of
America website for me and I went to my car to call her to get more information
on what x-rays she needed and how the blood needed to be labeled and
shipped. Dr. Safra was not available and
I left a message and waited for her to call back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
also spoke with Linda, the breeder, and told her how the doctor was changing his opinion about the x-ray once I informed him about the HOD study and wanting to have someone else look at the x-rays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
went back into the AG offices and waited for the phone call from Dr. Safra,
which came about 40 minutes later. She
told me she could email the information about the x-rays and the blood she
needed to the AG office, along with some documents that needed to be filled out
by myself and the vet. I obtained Dr.
Marc’s email address from the office staff and passed it on to Dr. Safra. I assumed the email was received by Dr. Marc,
as he told me the prices of having the additional x-ray done and the blood
drawn and I was given the paperwork to fill out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later
Rigby was brought out to me, along with the x-rays, the blood that was drawn
and the items I had left to keep Rigby comfortable while she was kenneled at
the AG office. </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
paid for the x-rays, NSAIDs and all the services that had been rendered for
Rigby and left.</span></div>
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it was of utmost importance to me to find out as quickly as possible if my
puppy was suffering from HOD and to start treatment as soon as possible if she
was, on the way home I stopped at a Fed-Ex office on Route 19 to ship the x-rays,
blood and paperwork to Dr. Safra in California.
I chose to have them delivered overnight, at a cost of $143.44.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next day I received an email from Dr. Safra saying that she saw no evidence of
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look at them when he returned from a meeting.
I was relieved to get this news, but still did not know why Rigby was
limping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday, January 24, I started Rigby on the NSAIDs that had been sent home
with us by AG, assuming that she must have pano, since that was the only other
diagnosis offered to me. I also
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Tuesday, January 29 I received another email from Dr. Safra informing me that
the radiologist had viewed the films of Rigby’s leg and that he agreed there
was no HOD. He also said that <b>Rigby’s first toe on her right foot was
broken</b>, explaining her lameness and pain.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was so relieved that there was a simple explanation for the pain my puppy was experiencing and so happy that she did not have one of the serious conditions that Dr. Marc claimed to have seen evidence of on the x-rays.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was not, however, pleased about the misdiagnosis and the money that was wasted because of the failings of an apparently uneducated veterinarian. A visit to the vet that should have cost about $150 grew to a cost of over $300 and then there were the fees for overnighting the radiographs and blood work to California.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've always treated the vets of my horses and dogs with respect, been timely for appointments with my animals ready for whatever procedure was scheduled, followed their directions and paid their invoices on receipt of services. My step-daughter is a veterinarian, so I've heard stories of how some owners can irritate and frustrate vets, and I've always made an effort not to be one of those people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In turn, I do expect professional services and proper diagnosis and treatment of my animals. This was not given in Rigby's case due to arrogance, neglect and/or a lack of knowledge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years, as my knowledge has increased, I have learned not to blindly trust the explanations or opinions of all vets, and that day in January proved to take my lack of trust to new heights.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the most serious of maladies my animals have suffered, including Dalton's EPM and Rocky's wobblers, I've consistently heard from my vets, oh, you caught this early, or, most people wouldn't have even noticed this yet, proof once again that an alert, informed owner is a pet's best friend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have since switched vets for Rigby and had a very good experience with the new vet clinic when she needed emergency surgery for pyometra. I hope that I will have a lengthy and strong relationship with these new vets, but I will be asking many questions and doing my best to be a well-informed pet owner to ensure that my dogs get the care they deserve.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tracking is one of my favorite activities to do with my dogs, as I love being outside, walking the hills, fields and in the woods. It's a great feeling to be holding the line and following behind your dog as he leads you along that invisible trail, making turns, climbing hills, working to find that glove at the end of the track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I stumbled upon a CD of four video clips of a track I did with Rocky in April of 2010. I had forgotten that this CD existed and I thought I'd share it here for those who might enjoy watching it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to Marge Gemerchak for taping this and capturing a wonderful memory of those days of tracking with Rocky, my first tracking dog!</span></div>
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This past weekend was the GTOTC tracking test at Mingo Creek County Park in Washington County, Pennsylvania. We had beautiful tracking weather on Sunday and had 2 of 3 TD passes and 2 of 4 TDX passes, the best results we've had at our tests for years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been a very eventful year in many ways for Rigby and for Dan and I, not always what we planned, but we made the best of it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A cute Rigby story from this week:</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby was in her crate while I was preparing for bed one night. When I came out to get her to take her into the bedroom she trotted out of her crate and went over to Dan, who was sitting on the couch, and seemed to greet him and say goodnight. Then she went over to Rocky, who was also on the couch, and gave him a greeting. I said to her, "Come on, Rigby, it's time to go to bed." She ran over to her toy box, dug her nose in and chose a toy, trotted with it back to the bedroom and jumped into bed. As I said, easy to live with!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today it was decided that Rigby would be given a bit of a challenge and she was to get two long tracks laid in a field that had recently been mowed, still smelled of freshly cut hay and had mounds of the cut grass laying all over it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because the first track was very long it took a while for our track layer, Lee, to lay it, make her way to the road and walk back to the start flag. Rigby voiced her impatience by barking and barking. She would settle for a few moments and then lunge toward the start flag and bark again. She was quite happy when Lee finally returned and she could start to work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although this track was meant to be a challenge, Rigby showed that it was not difficult for her. She only hesitated briefly a couple times in the first few yards and then she tracked true to the end and found the glove. The second track, laid in the same field, was pretty much the same, only she tracked over the glove and would have kept on going had I not brought her attention to the fact that she was at the end of the track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy with her results for the day I was playing with Rigby and the glove and giving her the treats that I save for the end of the track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I was told not to give her all the treats, that they decided to give her another track. We headed across the street, down the hill and crossed a wooden bridge into another field of short cut grass. It was then I was told that Rigby was going to have her first turn. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The track was laid, a bit shorter than the others, and near the end an open turn was put in. Rigby was still game after those first two tracks and she showed no trouble with this new track, laid by a different track layer in a field much different than she had tracked in earlier. When we got to the turn I was surprised to find that the turn was of a sharper angle than I've usually seen first turns laid. Rigby came to the end of the straight track and overran it a bit, showed an indication of loss of scent and then worked for a minute to two minutes before figuring out where the track was and heading in the new direction. She found the glove and we celebrated her first turn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again, while playing with Rigby after her track, I was told that one last track was going to be laid, another turn, but this one a bit of a more gradual turn to give her the best chance for a great tracking experience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby had plenty left in the tank and she had no trouble heading out on her fourth track. When she reached the turn this time it was almost as if there was no change in direction, she hardly slowed and just kept moving toward her end goal, the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a great day for Rigby! The first time she did four tracks in one day, the greatest length of tracking she has ever done, and her first turns!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The best part is, if allowed, she would have done a couple more tracks and enjoyed it all entirely!</span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-50914084310297679582013-09-06T18:22:00.000-07:002013-09-06T18:22:18.984-07:00Surviving the Dreaded "Season" or How Even Super Heroes Couldn't Help Rigby This Time!<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It started last week, I think it was Thursday. I t</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">hought we were prepared, but apparently we were not. How bad can it be, right? It's temporary, no big deal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank goodness I don't plan to keep Rigby intact! Going through one season with her is going to be more than enough for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I planned ahead, I bought her doggy diapers and the disposable pads to use in them back in July, one pair of pink, one pair of purple, we were all set, or so I thought!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But diapers don't seem to stay on Rigby very well at all. I've tried them tight, loose, further up her belly, nothing seems right. So I went to Joann Fabric and bought Velcro to add to the Velcro that the panties came with originally, hoping that would keep them fitted to Rigby better, but even with the extra inches of Velcro they just don't seem to stay on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe it's her tail, maybe it's too short to support those diapers and keep them in place. It's not like she has a full tail like a Lab or a Golden. But other Weims go through this every day and they seem to manage to keep their panties on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then someone suggested to try little boys underpants, it works for their dog. I've purchased 4 different sizes, Superhero design and Avengers design, and they don't work either! I tried cutting a hole for her tail, that didn't do the trick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When she does have her diaper on Rigby is not happy! She usually lays on the couch and stares at me with that "why are you doing this to me" look. Then she tries to take the panties off or runs through the house and her tail comes out of the little hole that keeps everything in place. It's a constant game of Fix the Diaper or Put the Tail in the Diaper Hole.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As her season has progressed Rocky has become more and more amorous towards Rigby and this also causes difficulty in having them out together. He tries to listen when told to leave her alone, but it's very tough for him. If they engage in play the panties, of course, fall off and, once again, the diaper needs to be reapplied.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Poor Rigby, again less freedom for her and more crate time. We're doing our best to keep her busy, but thank goodness we're already one week through this three-week cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning Rigby was in her crate while Dan was out and I was back working in my office. Somehow Rigby managed to get into the dogs' toy box that is kept behind her crate. She dumped the box and the toys were scattered over the floor and she was somehow able to pull a fleece tug toy partially into her crate. I'm sure working out how to do all she managed to do through the crate wires kept her occupied for a while and was like a good puzzle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To keep Rigby happy we've been freezing a Kong with peanut butter in it and she enjoys that treat. We're taking more and more walks, because the best thing about this is that once she is outside she's allowed to do whatever she likes -- at least she isn't on limited activity like she was with her leg injury.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our favorite activity to beat Rigby's boredom has been our trips to the fairgrounds parking field. We pack the car with a long line, a </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">chair, water, toys and treats. Rigby and I take a long walk and then we intersperse play and relaxation in the shade of some trees. She's on a 40-foot line and I try to give her as much freedom as I can. We enjoy the time together outside, it gives her great exercise and we throw in a bit of training, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow morning we'll be going tracking, another favorite endeavor for both of us. I'm so glad that the tracking group has allowed us to continue our participation through her season, as Rigby and I both need to be out and about and having some fun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm already looking forward to and planning for Rigby's spay surgery, probably in January, after the rush of the holidays are over and the Christmas tree is down and there aren't any decorations to get caught up in the cone that I know she'll be wearing. I'm hoping that once we get past the spay surgery and her healing that we won't have any down time for medical reasons for a long, long time! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The biggest problem we're having with Rigby is keeping her happy while she is wearing a cone and enduring two weeks of crate rest. I've been trying different ideas to try to make her days easier on her. I've been doing some light training with her, which has worked out well. I've tried having her rest beside me on the couch without her cone on, but that hasn't worked as well, as she doesn't want to stay still and she wants to lick at her leg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I asked the vet how much Rigby could be walked, since I had been walking her around the yard a bit, but I really didn't know what her limitations were. I was told she could walk 15 to 20 minutes, but do no more than a walk, which, with any 10-month old puppy would be a challenge, let alone with a high-energy Weimaraner puppy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today I experimented with walking Rigby around a bit more and, although it's not easy to keep her at a walk, I think several short walks a day will help Rigby through this time of healing. We find that when she is outside there are many more things to keep her interest away from her leg and so she can have the cone off while enjoying some time away from the crate. Right now I'm just keeping her on our property and the street in front of the house, but as time goes on we'll venture out a bit further.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walking Rigby around the yard and driveway reminds me of those days of walking young horses who are on stall rest, you have to be alert and ready for anything, because you never know when they're going to leap into the air. The nice thing for me is that walking a young pup is much safer than those horses we used to walk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm continuing to find more activities to keep Rigby's mind busy for the next ten or so days and things seem to be getting a bit better each day. My goal is to turn this lemon of an injury into sweet lemonade by teaching her some new behaviors that will be useful in her future obedience career.</span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-26061349366017569132013-08-03T08:05:00.003-07:002013-08-03T08:05:50.842-07:00IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE...<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I left for my 9:30 a.m. physical therapy appointment yesterday morning (Friday) everything was normal at home, Rigby and I had worked on our homework from our new online class, I had fed her, taken her out and she was in her crate taking a morning nap.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After my appointment I went to the bank and then stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few items, including hot dogs for tracking on Saturday, as I felt my knee was ready to head out to the park and do a few short, flat tracks with Rigby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I got home things were not quite normal any longer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I entered the kitchen with my groceries in my hands Dan told me that Rigby had had a little accident. She and Rocky had greeted me at the door and I had not noticed anything wrong, so I asked, "You mean she peed or pooped in the house?" I couldn't imagine that had happened, as she has not had an accident in the house since she was 10 or 12 weeks old.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Well, no", he said, "she has a little boo-boo."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He then proceeded to tell me that, as is normal at our house, after he had gotten up that morning he had fed Rocky his breakfast, but this was one of those days when Rocky's stomach was out of sorts and so he did not eat his meal (not uncommon for Rocky, as he's had stomach problems since we got him). A bit later, and forgetting that Rocky's food was still in his dish sitting on the floor, Dan let Rigby out of her crate and she made a beeline for Rocky's food, which, not surprisingly, Rocky took exception to and he proceeded to let her know in a way that was none too nice. Dan told me she had gotten bit on her leg, but it was "not too bad."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I immediately checked out the damage to her right leg and was not happy with what I saw, figured she needed stitches and so I immediately called the vet. Luckily they said they would fit us in and they told me to bring her right over.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After arriving at the vet's office and while trying to show the receptionist where the laceration was, I discovered blood behind Rigby's leg and realized there was another wound besides the one I had originally seen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once back in the exam room, and after a normal temperature reading, the vet soon came in. She examined both wounds and as she spent some time checking out the back of Rigby's leg I didn't like the look on her face and I got that sinking feeling that this was more than stitches.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The vet explained that the wound on the front of Rigby's leg was a bite tear wound that would need stapled or stitched, but that the wound in the back showed considerable swelling and was of more concern to her and that possibly the tendon sheath had been injured. I was given two options for dealing with the wound and, after discussing them with the vet, decided that surgery for Rigby was the best way to go.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thankfully the vet's office was able to work their schedule so that Rigby could be operated on later in the afternoon and she would then come home to us in the evening. The one concern that remained with doing the emergency surgery was that Rigby had eaten around 8:30 and her fast before undergoing anesthesia would only be about 6 hours, not the 12 that is preferred. The vet and the staff assured me that they would watch Rigby closely and do their best to prevent any vomiting when she woke up, in hopes of preventing her aspirating anything into her lungs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I left Rigby in the capable hands of my vet's office and just hoped that the outcome would the best we could have.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later in the afternoon I got the call from the vet's office that the surgery was finished, Rigby was awake, okay and had not vomited anything, all great news. Then they told me that the wound in the back of the leg was deeper than they had thought and so it was necessary to put in a drain to aid in the healing process -- not the greatest news.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she was ready to come home and I made an appointment to have the drain removed Monday afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I had to be at work by 4:00 on Friday I was not able to pick Rigby up myself and Dan had the task of going to the vet's office, getting all the instructions, getting her home and starting her care. I hope that at her appointment Monday, to remove the drain, I'll get more details on the surgery and exactly what they saw with the wounds on her leg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As of this morning Rigby is doing well. Yes, she wears the "Cone of Shame" and will wear it this weekend, as I don't want her to pull that drain out. The short times I've had the cone off she has made it clear that if given the opportunity she will chew her bandages and I'm going to prevent that from happening if at all possible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She seems to be moving on her foot very well and I think, if given the chance, she would run around the house and play like normal, but she is on vet ordered limited activity and so she will have to wait a bit for full-out playtime.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We brought up the largest crate we have and set it up where her crate normally sits. It gives her a bit more space for negotiating turns with the large E-collar on and it seems more to her liking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night she slept in bed with me and, except for falling out of bed at about 6:00 a.m., she had a decent night's rest. This morning she ate well, took her pills and had a good drink of water, went outside, did her "business" and is now resting quietly in the crate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hopefully in a couple weeks all will be healed and Rigby will be back to her full activities, showing no residuals from her wounds at all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby and Rocky have done so well together since we brought her home and they have become very good buddies, they play together, bounce around the floor together and even have begun sleeping on the couch together, Rigby using Rocky as a big pillow. I guess now we know the limits of Rocky's patience with Rigby, and that limit is his food dish and his food.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have worked with Rigby and Rocky and can feed them treats together, having both of them sit and waiting for the other to receive a treat, but this was our first encounter with Rigby trying to eat out of Rocky's dish and it will hopefully be the last.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I mentioned earlier, when I arrived home and before I knew what had happened, both Rigby and Rocky greeted me at the door, so I don't think any great damage has been done to their relationship, but precautions will need to be taken to ensure that Rocky's food, if not eaten, is put safely out of reach before Rigby is allowed the run of the house.</span><br />
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<br />Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-74657201647252741272013-07-28T08:54:00.001-07:002013-07-28T10:06:51.109-07:00Confessions of a Bad Dog Owner: Or, You Probably Shouldn't Follow My Lead<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've waited a while before writing this post: Didn't want Rigby's breeder to make the 14-hour round trip to steal back her precious girl to save her from the perils of living in our home. But Rigby is 10 and a half months old and has not only survived her puppyhood so far, she seems to be a happy, well-adjusted young dog.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always busy, Rigby found a stick to play with!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, yes, I spoke those words several times during the first few months after Rigby came home with us. Even after being warned by many experienced dog people that a puppy would be very active and very mouthy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sure, I knew puppies like to chew everything in sight and we did our best to puppy proof our house and remove some cherished possessions that we didn't want destroyed, but I wasn't expecting that my hands, and my husband's, would be used as teething toys for about 6 weeks. Covered in scratch marks, scabbed and red, in the middle of winter our hands had the appearance that we were spending our days working in a garden of thorns. As a professional who uses her hands to make a living, I was constantly explaining to lawyers and witnesses that we have a puppy at our home, and my explanation was met by nods of understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I raised the topic of Rigby's mouthiness and incessant biting and chewing to several friends who have raised and trained many puppies over the years and each time I got similar responses, "She's a puppy, that's what they do" or "Puppies use their teeth to explore, it's very normal." If I tried to protest and tell them that this was beyond normal they would just smile knowingly and walk away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the doctor decided that Dan's heart problems required him to be put on a blood thinner, I showed him my hands and told him that we have a young puppy at home going through the early teething stages and that this might not be the best time for Dan to be put on medications that would make any small wound seem even greater, as the bleeding would not stop as easily. The doctor said they had been through this with several patients and not to worry. Thankfully, it took about a month and a half for all the necessary testing and paperwork and Dan didn't start on the meds quite as quickly as I thought he would.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keeping those teeth busy, she chewed anything she could find.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there was the constant activity. The only time Rigby would take a break from running, playing, jumping on the couch, attacking Rocky, et cetera would be when we put her in her crate. For months she never slowed down or took a nap outside the confines of her crate. Even cuddling with her was not possible, as the stimulation of reaching for her or touching her made her think you were trying to play and she was off again at top speed or she was biting at the hand that wanted to pet her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The response I heard to my worries about Rigby's nonstop play were, "Well, you wanted a dog with drive, what did you expect."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing with Rocky has been great for Rigby in so many ways.<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe we had made a mistake, maybe we weren't up for this, maybe we had waited too long to get a puppy and this just wasn't right for us?? Oh, I had some doubts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I never did seek out the help of a behaviorist, I used the knowledge I had from the books I read, followed the advice of my experienced friends and set off to keeping my busy pup busy and training, training and training. We lived through the teething and mouthy stage and by the time Rigby was six months old we saw great changes in her behavior and we knew we were on the right track.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby started to cuddle at about six months of age and started sleeping in bed with me at night. At seven months of age I commented to my husband that this was a common age for Weim pups to come into rescue and I couldn't imagine how anyone could give up a pup at this wonderful stage. She was nine months old before she allowed herself to relax and slow down from her play time enough to take naps on the couch. Now it's a common sight to see her and Rocky both sleeping while she's out of her crate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ever since Dan and I got our first dog together, Sister, I've used my old socks with holes in them as toys for the dogs. After washing the sock, I tie a knot in the center of the sock and throw it in the dogs' toy box and these old socks have been used as tug toys for years. My dogs have never had a problem determining which socks were mine and which were the "retired" socks, and I've never had a problem with dogs getting into dirty clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now I hear about so many dogs, and especially pups, eating socks, soft toys or other things and needing to be forced to vomit or, even worse, needing surgery to remove the item causing a blockage in their digestive tract.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">We still use our old socks as toys and -- </span><i><span style="color: #38761d;">wait, Linda, get out of the car, go back to the computer and keep reading. Really, Rigby is just fine.</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> Where was I... oh, yes and we use them as training tools for our dogs. Not only do we have socks as toys, we leave our shoes sitting out and teach our dogs not to chew them and to leave them alone. My hope is that by making these things all seem normal that they won't look at them as a "treat" or wonderful toy that they need to chew. Yes, we have lost a shoe here and there, but for the most part this method has worked for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">This takes a lot of management on our part and is why our young pups and fosters are not allowed out of the crate unless we have eyes on them at all times. If they get a shoe and learn the joys of chewing up a shoe it makes it much harder to train them not to chew the next one, so we do our best to keep them from learning habits we don't want to perpetuate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Rigby has advanced to the stage that she is allowed the run of the main part of the house while I am showering, and usually when I come out to check on her she is resting quietly on the couch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Oh, yes, I admit it, I'm not one of those perfect dog owners who don't allow their dogs to enjoy a bit of the taste of the foods Dan and I eat. It probably does cause more counter surfing and begging, but to me it's worth it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Our dogs are taught manners and, if it is enforced, will lay at our feet while we eat and wait till they are offered food. Dan is not as stringent as I am about where the dogs stay while we're eating and so they get away with a lot more when he's in charge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">While visiting my parents last weekend we would put Rocky on a down stay at one end of the living room while we sat at a table at the other end of the room eating our dinner. Our family members were pretty impressed that Rocky was so well trained. My sister's pup is allowed no people food, a fact her family is very proud of, but I doubt that her dog will ever be as well behaved as my dogs are.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So ends my confessions for this session. Believe me, there are others that I might decided to divulge later in life, but for now I think I've given away enough of my secrets. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe that dog ownership and training is a journey of sorts and I've learned that it is a never-ending adventure of learning and discovering new ideas and methods. I try to keep my mind open to novel approaches for problems and constantly strive to improve my relationship with my dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To that end, I am going to try another new training method and I have signed up for an on-line class that will begin August 1st. With my crazy work schedule it is very difficult to get to weekly classes, but I'd like to have an agenda to follow and weekly goals to work towards. Stay tuned and I'll let you know how Rigby and I do in our new adventure of cyber training!</span><br />
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164673847824042212.post-82247575921128874302013-07-07T20:17:00.001-07:002013-07-07T20:17:27.891-07:00A Little This and a Little That<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wishing our Best to the Newest Grayhart Litter!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday following a puppy party the newest litter of Grayhart pups left the Hartheimer nest and headed out to begin life in their new homes. The Fast Times litter, by Savi and Parker, look to be as adventurous, confident and lovely as the last litter and they will be fun to watch as they grow, develop and learn. Rigby and I want to wish all the pups and their families the best of luck and tons of fun over the coming months and years!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The loot for the gift bags that were given out to the<br />
new owners of the puppies at the puppy party.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss Pink heads for home after the puppy party.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Blue stacks up nicely at the puppy evaluation. <br />
Now known as Grayhart's Show Me The Money or Cruise.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KellyAnn and Chris with their new puppy CeCe,<br />
Grayhart's Almost Famous, formerly known as Miss Pink.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This video shows a portion of the temperament testing of Miss Teal, now known as Mica. The temperament testing puts the pups in a new environment with a strange person and allows a chance to see how they adapt to different situations presented to them. The retrieving this pup did was pretty great and it's nice to see how happy the pup was in what can be a stressful situation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee Friday, the 5th of July, to repair a torn meniscus and to, hopefully, soon get my leg back to its normal strength and mobility.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I had missed several weeks of tracking training with Rigby due to a variety of reasons, I wanted to get her out tracking the Saturday before my surgery, in hopes that she might better retain what she had learned since it would be a few more weeks before I'd be up to working with her after the surgery. </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I knew that one of my tracking partners would not be able to attend that day, but, as I had worked late the night before, I missed the email that would have alerted me that at least one other person would not be attending, and the snowball effect that I was the only one planning to show up that morning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rigby and I were up and about early and at the park by 7:00 a.m., waiting for the other trackers to arrive. We waited an hour, until 8:00, thinking maybe they decided to start later, since there would be fewer dogs to track. Then we drove through the park to make sure they didn't meet at another location where the grass was not so high and the tracking would be easier.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally I decided it was just Rigby and I that day and it was up to me to give Rigby a bit of a tracking experience to keep her training going. This was the first time that I laid track for her and it was a bit odd, as she waited in the car while I prepared her tracks, rather than stand and watch the tracks go in. It also aged her tracks a bit longer, as it took more time for me to walk back from the track, get her out of the car and prepare to start the tracks. She did both her tracks like a star, showing all the same motivation, enjoyment and skill. She found the glove both times and we played some fun retrieve games once she did locate the glove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll be anxious to get back to tracking with Rigby, but I don't think either of us will mind missing some of the hot weather tracking that the next few weeks are sure to bring.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At almost 10 months old Rigby has been showing more and more signs of maturity as the months go on. The fact that she has learned not to jump on people has pleased us very much and has been especially nice since I had my surgery. She has also had to sleep in a crate at night again and not in bed with me, to ensure that she not hurt my leg during the night, and she has quickly adapted to that change in her sleeping arrangements.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the biggest changes we have seen in Rigby in the past few weeks is that she will finally rest and sleep while out of her crate and loose in the house. Yes, it has taken her this long to be able to relax and learn that she can quit playing with toys or bugging Rocky and just take a break. We would always end up putting her in her crate to give us or Rocky a break from her constant playing, exploring and general nosiness. As I write, she is in the kitchen looking to get into something as Dan, Rocky and I rest quietly on the couch. Saturday afternoon the four of us took a nap on the couch and it was so nice to have Rigby join us in our family relaxation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning I took time to spend a bit of time training Rigby, as it has been several days since we had done anything. We played some glove fetch, dumbbell retrieve and just some basic training commands. I'll be anxious to get her back into full training once my leg permits. In the meantime, Rigby is fully enjoying being a silly, happy puppy!</span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09383616014417061439noreply@blogger.com0