Almost a month later!

Wow, almost a month later I finally get my suitcase back from the airport, they finally found it!

To make up for my elongated absence I am offering pictures in truce!

I have been doing this 52 Week for Dogs photo group on Flickr.

It is loads of fun!

This weeks challenge was to focus on "places where dogs should not be."

I was at a loss with this idea. All i could think of was Mani on a table or Mani in the toilet, but I already have picture of my CAT doing that:

Mani is not that bad.

So I was going through some of the pictures that I have taken outside that day and found the perfect picture!

Not Allowed! 5/52

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More pictures to come!

Happy, but Not

Finaly back home with my animals! I am so happy!

The only thing, my suitcase did not make it.

Which means that all of my camera equiptment is not here, so photos and videos are going to have to wait. :(

I took an awsome picture of Mani this week but I cannot put it on my computer because I do not have to cord to my computer! Sometime I just dont like technology!

Well it snowed here, Mani likes the snow, so we had fun running around, well, wait, no, not 'we,' Mani was the only one who liked running around in the cold. Jillian and I had other plans.

So hopefully I will get my bags soon.

I am doing a 52 Weeks for Dogs, well this is the first week, and I dont have a camera! How evil!

I have to go do some obedience with Mani now, we have 2 weeks to make up for. He needs straight fronts.

No Mani!

I am in Canada staying with friends. It is cold, white, and the worst thing about it is that I am without Mani (and Jillian).

This 'vacation' will be the longest time I have been without my animals, since I got my first cat when I was 10 years old. I do not know how long I can last. It was so weird going to bed and not taking the dogs out one last time.

New pictures and video of Mani and Jill when I get back.

Trial Results and Late Halloween

So we are finally back from the trial. Yay! Mani Q'd 7/12 runs. I think that is great! The first day (Friday) he blew all of the games runs, oh well. The second day he blew all of his standard runs. The third day he was a crazy man with "zoomies" and was being a tunnel sucker. He hates tunnels! I am still happy, he got his superior games title, TG3! So . . . . .

Pilot Mandolin Rain CGC TIAD TBAD TG1 TG2 TG3

All of Mani's titles!


I just realized that I never really wished everyone a Happy Halloween. So Mani and my can Molly would like to do it for me, a bit late though.

Creepy right!

Long-haird Dog!

Never own a long-haird dog! EVER! Mani is sick. That is all I have to say!

I will let this blog post from Full Tilt Border Collies explain the rest!

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Obedience!

I have started an apprentice program at a dog training facility here in GA. So I have been training Mani more obedience than agility. Well we have a TDAA trial coming up in a week. Our very first 3-day trial ever. My plan was to start exercising him more often, that was a bust! I got very busy and our normal three walks a day turned into just a half a walk to a grassy area then the dogs play off-leash. So instead of increasing his exercise it decreased. Bummer! Although he does not seem to mind!

Or maybe he is just taking all of his anger out on Jillian!

Instead of exercise I have been trying to mentally stimulate him, in the hopes that he will be able to better handle of a long day of trialing. So I have been doing more obedience. We have started from the beginning because ever since we started agility I have stopped all obedience. I did not realize how bad he had gotten with everything, even his tricks!, till we started again. It is like I never trained him anything. He just looks at me with those eyes and that face, how can I be mad!

I started with just stays the one thing I know he can do. It was also good for Jillian to learn too. Though she does not quite understand the point. *Yawn*

They much prefer the release, because they can run away from me and no more stays! yay!

So for Mani we are again working on recalls. His is pretty much non-existent! But he does love a photo-op!

Then we work on focusing, a bit confusing for some dogs. For agility he is supposed to watch and follow my hands (not that he does) for obedience he is supposed to watch my face. He is just so eager.

So I just have one question, does anyone else's dogs argue?

Tricks!

Jillian and Mani came together for a trick video!