Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. I hope it is everything you wish for.

It's Christmas!

We had great fun last night at the Tynewater Christmas Parties.  We had a relay race using the weave poles, tunnel, cones and hula hoops and included some singing!  There was retrieve a bonio, musical chairs, best party trick and best fancy dress.


Here are some photos

Bella looks distinctly unimpressed with her outfit!

                           

Oscar showing off his bonio

                             

Alfie strutting his stuff on the weaves

Donna and Oscar aka Santa and his present!

Helen and Blue looking very professional

Fly retrieving a bonio - perfect!

Honey is also unimpressed by her bee outfit!

Moira in her fab hat! and Gambit doing a "stick 'em up"

The Terrible Trio (humans and dogs!!)

Andy and Zak with a great move!

 

Zak showing how the tunnel works in the relay race

 

Kennel Club Good Citizen

December 1st saw three of the class feel prepared enough to go forward to take their test for the Kennel Club Good Citizen.  Audrey and Flath completed the Bronze Award and Moira with Gambit and Les with Fly completed Silver.  We are very proud of all 3 and they will go onto the Tynewater Hall of fame once we get the website sorted for photos!

Audrey and Flath

Moira and Zak

 Les and Fly



















The Beginners class did their test too on the 1st and all were brilliant.  It is so satisfying to see little Belle be able to join in with the group now and bark just for the sheer hell of it rather than fear.  Little Oscar has amazed his owner as he isn't fearful at all.  That's the value of small classes and suffcient training support to provided one-to-one where required.

Christmas party this week as postponed last week due to the weather.  Looking forward to it!

Another Training Day!

We had a fantastic days working trials training day today. We had 8 dogs - 2 Labs, GSP, 2 Clumbers, Springer, Cocker, Collie and all did really well.  It's amazing how little confidence owners have in their dogs!  Most of them said their dog wouldn't be able to do one or other of the exercises and to their surprise their dog was great!

Here's Twig doing the clear jump

And a lovely photo of Fudge

They all enjoyed it so much we are now having a monthly class!

Thanks to Liz for the photos.

My Little Therapet

Very proud of Callum tonight.  He passed his test to be a Therapet.  We will be the very first Therapet visitors at the new local hospital.  He was a very well mannered little man and the Assessor was full of praise for him.

Just got to get all the paperwork sorted and we can start.

Take Three Dogs.......

and do some clicker training and see varying results.  Did some clicker training with all three dogs at the weekend.  First up was Hector who started off well but then decided that he would just sit and stare at me to see if that would get him what he wanted! We moved on though and got some nice behaviours offered in the end. 

Maisie was next and what a little show-off, just offered one behaviour after another and we really made progress on her barking. 

Then it was Callum's turn.  He was hilarious! Started off with standard stuff then glided into backing up, rolling over and on and on it went all the time with that serious little face of his - made me laugh out loud!

An enjoyable hour though and we all had some fun.

They Passed!

What an enjoyable night! Putting the 'late brigade' (our late training class!) through their Bronze KCGCDS has been an interesting experience.  Not because the dogs have been a problem but some of the owners have a real lack of confidence in their own ability and in their dog.  However, they all did really well tonight and all passed the test. Very proud of them all.  From little Sybi the Shih Tzu whose owner didn't think she would be able to do anything to the lab Gambit whose view on life is 'Just Chill'! they all proved they can train their dogs and enjoy it in the process.  As for 'Patch' well what a star!