Last weekend, my friend Janice and I took our dogs (Enzo the Poodle and Tooey the Irish Water Spaniel) up to British Columbia to take a beginning retriever workshop. I had a wonderful time, and learned a lot. Mostly, I learned that I need to be the pilot of our retriever team. And that I [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Tooey and Trice work on land and water
Posted in dog training, hunting / hunt training, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged fetch command, hold command, hunt test training, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, recall command on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Coopercam: The Director’s Cut
Posted in hunting / hunt training, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged dog training, hunt training, Irish Water Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Russ Dodd photography, St. Louis Ponds, upland game bird hunting on July 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Cooper is a versatile boy. I have tried teach him how to make espresso coffee, but he is limited to drip only. Cinematography might be a new venue for his talents. I recently built a new collar out of steel and neoprene that is a camera mount for the GoProHD video camera. In the video [...]
Attempts to video attempts at training Sit!
Posted in dog training, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog obedience, Irish Water Spaniel, IWS, obedience training, Sit-Stay on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that Cooper has had a very rocky time staying in the Sit-Stay position. He is SO tempted to run after and retrieve anything moving, even when we’ve told him to stay. And it’s just gotten worse over time, especially at hunt tests. I really want him to [...]
Tooey’s a chick!
Posted in breeding, dog healthcare, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged CHIC, dog breeding, dog health tests, Irish Water Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel Club of America, IWS, OFA on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good news! Tooey’s a chick. (Well, we knew that.) To be less cute about it, Tooey has a CHIC number. That means that she’s taken all her pre-breeding health tests, and that that fact has been published by the Canine Health Information Center (CHIC). These tests are specified by the Irish Water Spaniel Club of [...]
How to spend $75 in 3 minutes
Posted in hunting / hunt training, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged failing a Senior hunt test, hunt tests, Irish Water Spaniel, IWS, Rose City Labrador Retriever Club on July 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
How to spend $75 in 3 minutes: Take your dog (whom you been training to be steady at the line for many months) to a Senior hunt test. Watch your very excited dog zoom out to the start line in nowhere close to the heel position. Call your dog back to the heel position at [...]
Training steady, picture
Posted in dog training, hunting / hunt training, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged dog training, hunt training, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, obedience training, positive gundog training on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just the other day, I wrote a blog entry about our new regime to help Cooper learn what staying Steady means. Today, Russ was able to take a picture of one part of our training. To do that, he had to step away from his normal place, which is with Cooper on his left, with [...]
Training steady
Posted in dog training, hunting / hunt training, Obedience/Rally, Realta Rosario Cooper, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog training, hunt training, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, obe, obedience training, positive gundog training on July 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I took Cooper to a private lesson with Joan at Dog Days last weekend, and as part of our work that day, I described Cooper’s problem with staying steady at the line in hunt tests. She said, “Oh, that’s just Stay.” My thought, “Oh, yeah, right. Just Stay…” But nevertheless, Joan did demonstrate to me [...]
