Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Am I really living in Fairbanks? It has been awfully warm lately!! But the dogs are crazy so I started training today. It was cool enough, but yet puddles along the way provided some wading water for the dogs.
Lately, because of the fall weather my dogs have not been able to be let loose all at once. I'm down to doing it in 2 groups. 1 large group when it turns cooler and they haven't been running is just a little too crazy!! I usually let a larger group loose first and then a smaller 2nd group. The 2nd group are dogs that chase each other around the shed at high rates of speed until they are tired. I think I counted 15 laps one day. And they aren't just trotting around either!!
In my run today I had several of our SCL adoptees in the teams. The first team had Chance (SCL) in lead and Misty (SCL) in swing. Robin, Chert, Pippi and Millie rounded out the team.
These SCL dogs are driven driven driven. I'm fortunate to have them.
I have to load up my truck and 4 wheeler and head up the road about .5 miles to be off the pavement....then I have miles of trails/dirt roads to run on. We had some challenges today which the dogs excelled at. They are putting a culvert in on up the road and I didn't realize it until talking to a trucker right before I got going. But I had the team all hooked up and the guy said that although they had the road blocked off I would be able to get around with my team. So, off we went. Robin and Chance were excellent. We came upon the equipment and had to stay hard right past 2 dump trucks and a big shovel that was loading into one of the trucks. It didn't scare any of the dogs. I sure like things like that as the dogs learn to pass anything they come across.
The 2nd team had Blackberry (SCL) in it. Borax and Jazz in lead and Crowe and Zorba rounded out the team. This has always been one of my fastest and more powerful teams. It is wonderful to see the attitude of the dogs but sad to know that the majority of this team are old timers (9 and 10 years old). They flew past the equipment and we went further than the first team and at the turn around met up with a woman loose walking 3 dogs!! A rather chunky golden retreiver charged the leaders but Jazz gave him a piece of his mind and the dog turned tail. The woman was apologizing all over the place as her little foo foo dog was trying to get back in her car and the lab/husky mix was visiting down the team. I told her that this is always good training for my dogs and I trust that my dogs won't fight unless provoked. So it was a good experience for them. We turned around there and stopped at a water puddle for wading and lapping.
Back past the equipment and then a 2 minute stop as one of the trucks dumped his load and turned around. The dogs did not like this stop!!! But they were fairly patient.
BB's line was ramrod tight the whole time. She is an amazing little dog.
Come on SNOW!!!!
Lately, because of the fall weather my dogs have not been able to be let loose all at once. I'm down to doing it in 2 groups. 1 large group when it turns cooler and they haven't been running is just a little too crazy!! I usually let a larger group loose first and then a smaller 2nd group. The 2nd group are dogs that chase each other around the shed at high rates of speed until they are tired. I think I counted 15 laps one day. And they aren't just trotting around either!!
In my run today I had several of our SCL adoptees in the teams. The first team had Chance (SCL) in lead and Misty (SCL) in swing. Robin, Chert, Pippi and Millie rounded out the team.
These SCL dogs are driven driven driven. I'm fortunate to have them.
I have to load up my truck and 4 wheeler and head up the road about .5 miles to be off the pavement....then I have miles of trails/dirt roads to run on. We had some challenges today which the dogs excelled at. They are putting a culvert in on up the road and I didn't realize it until talking to a trucker right before I got going. But I had the team all hooked up and the guy said that although they had the road blocked off I would be able to get around with my team. So, off we went. Robin and Chance were excellent. We came upon the equipment and had to stay hard right past 2 dump trucks and a big shovel that was loading into one of the trucks. It didn't scare any of the dogs. I sure like things like that as the dogs learn to pass anything they come across.
The 2nd team had Blackberry (SCL) in it. Borax and Jazz in lead and Crowe and Zorba rounded out the team. This has always been one of my fastest and more powerful teams. It is wonderful to see the attitude of the dogs but sad to know that the majority of this team are old timers (9 and 10 years old). They flew past the equipment and we went further than the first team and at the turn around met up with a woman loose walking 3 dogs!! A rather chunky golden retreiver charged the leaders but Jazz gave him a piece of his mind and the dog turned tail. The woman was apologizing all over the place as her little foo foo dog was trying to get back in her car and the lab/husky mix was visiting down the team. I told her that this is always good training for my dogs and I trust that my dogs won't fight unless provoked. So it was a good experience for them. We turned around there and stopped at a water puddle for wading and lapping.
Back past the equipment and then a 2 minute stop as one of the trucks dumped his load and turned around. The dogs did not like this stop!!! But they were fairly patient.
BB's line was ramrod tight the whole time. She is an amazing little dog.
Come on SNOW!!!!
