Saturday, November 30, 2013

Silly Pet Tricks!


TRICKS, TRICKS, TRICKS, most of our foundation work was simply tricks, they were all about body awareness and learning to work together. One thing I loved about the foundation work Cricket and I did as she was growing up, was all the body awareness work we did.  I can say now that it really paid off.  We have done a bit of herding, a bit of obedience, a bit of rally, some agility, some nose work, and there is nothing we have done that I did not feel we had a bit of a heads up because of the foundation we had thanks to online lessons mostly from Sylvia Trkman but also Susan Ainsly, Susan Garrett, Denise Fenzi and a tiny bit of the Michael Ellis DVDs. The best thing about our foundation was that we could work at our own pace and in really short sessions-homeschooling the Crickster turned out great for us.

In the desert we don't do stairs.  When I wanted to teach Cricket to back up the stairs I had to wait until this real estate office was closed so I could go use their stairs.  They have stairs all around the building and they are all a little different sizes and slopes.  I was driving by the office and since it was black Friday the office was closed, and there was a break in the rain, so I stopped to see if Cricket remembered how to back up the stairs.  SHE DID!

Have I said before how much I love this dog?

5 comments:

Sara said...

Love Cricket! She is such an awesome little worker. It's so fun for me to see you too back in action.

You look great Kathy!

Sagira said...

I love watching Cricket. Such a smart girl and you guys are a great team. :)

Chris and Ricky said...

I loved watching you do foundation work with Cricket as she grew up! There is no substitute for training like that. It is cool to see Cricket remembers her backwards stairs! :)

Diana said...

Look at your skinny legs!! WTG!

Natasha said...

You've done such an amazing job with Cricket!! It's always so wonderful to watch the two of you play together :)

You commented on my blog almost a month ago asking how Mika is doing regarding her lameness -- sorry I didn't see it until now! She's doing much better thanks, and is no longer lame! :D