Tracking, Obedience

Hi!
Now I'm finally home again! ;) We have been training the whole day, tracking and obedience. As fast as my mum parked the car I went away to prepare the tracking. The tracking was about 500-600 metres and it had 5 angles and 6 objects. We were tracking on a field so I could mark the ancles 'naturally', I could turn the side of the wet kind of corn thats been left. She did the tracking with a very good tempo and she kept her nose down in the ground. We used two leashed in the practise, so I had the chance to slow her down (or she will run through the whole tracking :) ). She didn't care and kept doing a very great job.

She did five angles of 90 degrees, and she only misses one a little because a old track kept going forward. She was intensive and did a really great and clean job! The only thing that wasn't perfect was her lyings, she didn't lie down as straight as she is supposed to. But why bother? She did a really great job and I'm glad for that. If the tracking we did last week was about 80 pts of 100 so was this about 94 pts! So it's looking great, and I just can't wait until the spring when we're going to compete! And when she was tracking, she was almost exactly there where I went with my feets. Great! I've been waiting a long time for this moment! Finally!

We did even practise obedience. And she did the obedience and fetching real great! But she has to practise a bit more with the jumping. She is hesitating a bit, but not on the A. Except that everything's looking great! A great practise day, and I have to thank the cook of the day, the food tasted real great! Please, look at the pictures below, it't from todays practise:

Practise makes perfect!

Hi!

It was a while since I wrote the last time but I'll try to write more about the practises when I have time. We have started practising 2-3 times/week and practise makes perfect!

The obedince is going great and I think that is the element we don't have to practise so much. And the element where she's running forward is one of the favourites, and it's going great there too! ;) And she gets the fetch with no problems. :) These results depends of that I've change the way to practise, and it seems to work! I'm trying to use the ball as little as I can, except some elements like fast lyings and running forward. I've started to use more dog-candy instead, then she won't be 'blocked' in the obedience. We have started tracking too, and it's looking better than it did in the summer. But everythings looking better, especially the fetch. So it is decided that we are going to compete in the spring!

Hope you're having a good time and keep reading in this blog! It will be updated so often as I have the time to write. PS! Please look at the video below, it's the best IPO-practise we had ever done! The practise is in Loviisa, Finland under the midsummer camp. Enjoy!