Today we are joining our friend Jodi over at Heart Like A Dog and her co-hostess Sue from The Talking Dog Blog for her Follow-up Friday, the blog hop that lets you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.
Wordless Wednesday ~ Well Hello There Handsome…
Thank you all for your wonderful comments on Titan’s photo!
tylersat99 asked
“So why did you leave?”
Titan went to Tennessee to continue with his retriever training. His trainer winters there so he can continue to train with dogs year round and he wanted to take Titan with him so they could keep the momentum so there wouldn’t be such a long break in his training.
Jodi asked
“How is everyone adjusting to him being home?”
Although back in Michigan he is not home quite yet. Dave will continue with his training for a bit longer as they are working on blind retrieves, in which the dog does not see the bird fall or forgets the location and forgets the location of the fallen bird and the handler directs the dog to the bird by means of a whistle, voice, and hand signals (this is called casting). They are also working on sit to whistle. I did take Maia with us to visit him, let’s just say he was only interested in one end of her and it wasn’t her head 
As promised here is my follow-up from yesterdays
This ‘N That Thursday
Let’s start with the photos of Maia and what we struggle with in the ring. You will remember the first photo was just fine, she stacked very nicely but then the judge started to approach her so in the second photo we had some issues…
1. The look of “oh NO here he comes”
2. I don’t know if you can really see it
but she is starting to lean towards me
3. Leaning back, which makes her
legs look like they are to far forward
instead of underneath her.
I am very fortunate that Michelle was able to get two short videos of her moving. The first one is our down and back…
this next one is the go around…
She did pretty good with both of these but we had no dogs chasing her So although we did have some issues she is doing better each time we show so I think by the end of the season she will be feeling real comfortable with the whole thing, at least I hope.
Titan follow-up…
2 Brown Dawgs asked
“Will you be entering any hunt test this year?”
I am so anxious to see him run in a test, the plan is to enter either in June or July; May is so busy already with the Genesee supported show and Kalamazoo. I’m hoping to start Rally with him this year also but I will have to see how things go with the hunt tests, those are priority!
Well that wraps up our Friday, why don’t you hop on over to Heart Like A Dog and her co-hostess Sue from The Talking Dog Blog, see what their up to, grab the badge and join the fun!
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Misty Shores Chesapeakes 
Great follow-up! I’ve never shown dogs, but have gone with a friend who shows Swissys. It’s not as easy as it looks! Loved your videos.
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Thank you!
I know, so many people think it’s just a beauty pageant 😉
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Great follow-up Misty, thank you for joining us! I’m sure Maia will get there the more you work her, she comes from very good stock!!
And Titan, oh Titan, why is it the males always go strait for the ‘goods?’
Have a great weekend.
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Thanks Jodi, we have been trying to work pretty regular.
I know right, just like them isn’t it 😉 in all fairness to him though she is in season 🙂
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Those were great video’s you gals looked good. I like your diagram picture really showed what you were talking about. She will get there.
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Thanks for the encouraging words. I had hoped it would help and not confuse people, so hard to describe that stuff sometimes.
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Great follow up. Maia looks good in the ring. We will be working the Flyways test in May so no shows for us. 🙂
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Thanks! If I can convince her the other dogs are not chasing her I think we will be over the hump 😉
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I bet you all can’t wait to get Titan home from training! At least he was close enough for a visit. 🙂
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I do miss him and can’t wait but I can see him pretty much once week now and the training he is receiving will make him a better dog 🙂
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Great follow up!! Maia looks good in the ring! we had a few minor issues with Sherman when we first started too, Leroy took to it like a natural!
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Isn’t that funny how some just walk in there like they have been doing it their whole lives!
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Don’t you really miss them when they are gone? I am not sure I could part with them for so long.
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Yes I do and I wasn’t sure I could do it in the beginning but in the long run this training will make him all the better. Now that he is back I can see him once a week until training is complete.
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Better is good.
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Getting use to the dogs coming behind is a hard one for a lot of dogs. Mica hates to be approached from the rear so that was hard for her when we started showing. She always had to turn around and meet the dog behind before we started to feel comfortable. So of the owners/ handlers did not like her doing that.
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Yeah I know sometimes other owner/handlers can be like that. I have been very fortunate with her that most of the owner/handlers I know and they are patient and helpful 🙂
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