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  • Evening Training Session

    Started out with a session with Dulce – we worked on

    • touch – touch my hand
    • stand – a behavior she already knows
    • table – just getting on it

    Macy had a review session of table and box

    • table – meaning get on the agility table and down
    • box – meaning get on the agility table and down

    Took the click and train out and Dulce and I worked on coming and going down the channel weaves.  I’ve got her going the full length.

    Let Macy try her turn at the channels, since she was telling Dulce she wasn’t doing it right.

    All in all a good session.

  • Channel Weaves

    Decided to get out my Click and Train remote trainer and widen my channel weaves and see what I would get.

    Worked out pretty well.  I am going to get some garden fencing in a little bit, that will make it go a bit faster.

    She has learned that the click and train delivers treats. 

    She has learned that momma gives you treats when you come to her.

    I’m not sure that she knows the poles have anything to do with it.

  • Dulce

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    I reserve the right to change my mind, but so far, on the paperwork I’ve been filling out for her, her call name is Dulce.

    For those of you who don’t speak TexMex, Dulce means sweet, or sweetness.  I’ve had a few girls named Dulce in my classroom, and they are very much like Dulce, sweet and quiet.

    I think it works well with Tesoro’s Sweet Temptation and works better than other names that fit with that.

    We have some issues:

    • drools in the car and is very subdued when she gets out of the car.  Know the feeling.
    • hand shy
    • not sure about the dog door

    We have lots of good things:

    • Gets on well with the other girls
    • Listens when you tell her no.
    • Asks permission
    • Plays tug and chases thrown objects

    I like the fact that she isn’t Macy.  Macy is flashy in looks and over the top in attitude.  Of course we’ve been together for less than 24 hours.  I’ll tell you what she’s really like in a few weeks.

    She’s enrolled in a Level I / Puppy Clicker Agility class.  We have to go through some of this to even go to an agility class.

  • Beginning Behaviors

    I started out clicking whenever she touched the hand that didn’t have food.  I did a quick short session at the breeder’s == and oddly what she does to teach her dogs for the conformation ring  is very similar, but no clicker is involved.

    We’ve done two more sessions since we got home, and I added the cue “touch” with the last session.  I also started clicking for all four paws on the floor.

    She is a very sweet dog.  I realize now how I teach separation anxiety – she started fussing in her crate this morning and I reinforced it by talking to her.  Whoops.  Of course, the other girls will probably teach her too.

    She is entertaining herself right now, by killing stuffed animals and already did some degutting.

  • First Night

    It went really well.

    I didn't get home from Glen Rose until almost 7:30. 

    Fed her and Macy as they had not eaten.

    I put her in the yard first, let her sniff around and get comfortable.  Then I added Macy, later Maggie, and then my husband.  He's pretty intimidating because he is so tall and lean.  Just posted a video on that.

    Kept her in the crate in the living room the first part of the evening.  Got her out, let her pee and let her do some supervised exploring in that part of the house.  She's really good about asking permission.

    At bedtimeI put her in a crate outside my door.  She was quiet all night.  We just got up, peed and got fed, and I'm on my way down to let everyone in the yard after we've calmed down from eating.

  • First encounter with the Family

  • Tesoro’s Sweet Temptation photos

    Here are the breeder's photos (I hope she doesn't mind – I took them off the website — if she does, I'll take them down).

     Cookiefront
     Cookiestack

  • Tesoro’s Sweet Temptation has come to live with us.

    We've got a new beagle living here.  On trial (yeah, right)…

    Her breeder's page is at http://www.tesorosbeagles.com/Now%20Showing.htm and she's about half way down.

    She isn't as flashy as Macy, and she isn't as out going.  Yet.  But she's a really nice girl and took first puppy at her first show. 

    I'll have a video up with our first encounter.

    I've already got her hand touching with the clicker, and fed her most of her first meal that way.  Right now, she's exploring the house.  And yes, she just came in from peeing.

    I've got a crate in the dog room set up for her, and have a crate for her in the living room and a crate ready to go upstairs. 

    I did get to see Macy's half brother and sisters.  They were really nice, but I realized when I was holding them and the litter Mildred had, that

    a) I didn't want anything that small

    b) I wanted something that was ready to work on now, and could blend into our family better.

    She's old enough she can stay in a crate all day and I don't have to make day care arrangements.

    Her call name is Cookie, but I don't think that is going to work well for an agility dog.  So far, I'm thinking Sweetie or Dulce.  I don't like the other words for cookie (spanish, french, etc).

  • Oklahoma City and Pet Therapy Memories

    Just ran across a CNN story about the babies that survived the Okalahoma City bombing.  Patty, UCDX Weaver’s Peppermint Patty, UD was a therapy dog and she worked with Brandon when he was in Dallas at a children’s rehab center.  It is so wonderful to see that he is doing much better than was projected.

    Don’t know how he felt, but she really enjoyed being with him.  She always liked children the best.  Probably because they couldn’t throw her as far (okay, only one patient threw her and it wasn’t hard).

  • Getting back on track

    Since our next trial is 3 weeks away, I’m working on our table skills – besides, it’s easier to keep a table in the living room than a teeter … 

    Hotel reservations are made (and paid for), food is ordered, sub is requested and paperwork to be out is submitted.