ARTC had a large group of dogs showing in the AKC Obedience show in Simpsonville August 14-15. Several new legs were achieved and several new CD titles. Congrats to all the new legs and titles! Many are preparing for the next show in Kentucky that starts on Sept 2nd at the Kentucky Horse Park. Good luck to all showing starting Sept 2nd!
If you are interested in training for AKC titles, it is a lot of fun showing with a group of people with the same interest! Contact Animal Resorts and Training Center and have some fun with training.
Well it has been a while since I wrote… but have experience computer problems, and other things were higher on the list than the blog with that going on.
We had a large group showing at the Simpsonville AKC show August 14-15, and several new legs attained in Rally!! Also a new title… at a higher level. If you are interested in training to get your rally title for you pup/dog be sure to contact or just come visit a Saturday training at Animal Resorts and Training Center. Represented from our group were many dogs.
Several will be showing at the Kentucky Horse Parker starting this Thursday! Good luck to all showing!
This is some extreme stuff going on, San Fransisco is really into banning things right now… last week it was “soda being banned” now this week it is “banning pets”?
I don’t know about you, but most all the people I know will drink a soda and have at least 1 pet, I wonder how many people living in San Fransisco drink soda and have pets?
Parker’s personality is something we have always gotten a kick out of. He is highly intelligent and a real “card” when it comes to so many things. He loves to play in the hose water… if the hose is on…Parker is there, makes for filling a pool, that all the dogs enjoy a real challenge. With obedience this would not be a problem, but some things are just fun to watch. None of the other dogs will mess with Parker while the hose is on in the pool… they stay their distance, as they know that once the water is turned off and the hose removed from the pool, the pool is open for everyone to play, so they all just wait. There have been times we have had to use obedience to make him stay out of the pool till it is filled, but we enjoy watching him and laughing at just how many times he can make this happen. I just put a couple clips so you get the idea of just what this dog accomplishes many times while trying to fill this pool! He is to funny sometimes.
It is always so funny to me to observe your pups start turning into watch dogs! Brena will be 10 months old tomorrow, but started her watch dog barking here and there while she was outside on our deck alone. I would always go out and see what she was barking at and praise her. Well a pup living with a pack of dogs will always go look out the window where the pack is barking to look and listen, they tend not to bark and allow the big dogs to take care of that. There always comes that time, when the pup happens to be the first to spot something and lets out that serious sounding first bark in the house. Well that just happened in the house for the first time a couple hours ago for Brena. These are the moments you would just love to happen to have a camera going, because this is the second pup I have seen this happen with here in our home.
Brena, the pup noticed something first and and started barking…. the pack being alerted to her bark ALL jumped up barking from where they were and came flying and barking to the front windows too. It totally scares the crap out of the pup!! hahahaha They get their first taste of what happens when the alarm is sounded, and when the adults come charging barking serious… it has always initially scared the pup! Brena went running away down the hallway when the pack all came barking and charging for the front windows. She did come back and start barking with them… but it is that scared to death look of “what did I do wrong??” and thinking they were coming after her that I would love to capture on film. It is the most comical thing to see. I have witnessed this a few times in the past… Gus is one I can think of doing it too.
We all come out and yep, she was barking for a GREAT reason, Brena got all kinds of praise…. thus our back deck barking alone watchdog pup has just now found out what “sound the alarm” really means in this house. She also found out for the first time, that all the other dogs believed her bark and took her serious when she barked at the person in our drive.
Brena, has just passed the watchdog test, with her pack actually listening to and responding to her bark. We just keep watching as she matures, as she is already charging to beat the other females through the door, and wonder just what other changes we will see in her now with the pack of dogs responding to her barking of the intruder on our property.
I usually have a weekly meeting with David for training with my GSD pup Brena, a pup I kept out for training of my own breeding of Candy X Parker. I had noticed and never had ask about them before, but there was new things in the training room. I knew what they were for, just didn’t know anything about scent detection training as it was not necessarily an area I thought I would ever train in. I am a curious person though and enjoy training, but more than that, I use video a lot and love getting new reactions on video of new things being taught to a pup. I like seeing just how they respond to things. So I emailed David before my lesson to request video of him with Brena on something she had never seen or done before. I ask if I could video him explaining to me and use Brena in the video so I would have a copy of just what scent detection was and how they train for it. I so enjoyed the video clip for myself, but felt I would post it for all to see. I was both surprised and pleased at how Brena did, but then I am sure a lot of that is the trainer also. Thank you David for allowing me to do this, and thank you for explaining it on video. I really enjoyed this different type of training… and want to add it to my time in training that I do with David in my private lessons. It is a lot of fun to train for new things and just to learn about training in so many areas that we just don’t even think about.
Well, to finish this progesterone testing series…. I was not able to get Candy in to the vet on that Tuesday morning and all seemed ok that morning. Tuesday afternoon all the sudden things changed with Parker, so I took Candy in Wednesday morning for another progesterone test and requested a same day reading. I got her results at 5pm and the reading was 7.1 so Candy had ovulated. I drove there Thursday and the first breeding happened that evening with Ricco. Because the reading was higher a back to back breeding was done and she was also bred on Friday. Candy basically had a stall in her heat cycle; she didn’t end up with a split heat cycle.
Interesting stuff really, many people wonder why their dogs don’t get PG, well we will find out if this way works. I will have Candy checked with ultrasound June 14th and post the results as a comment on this last post in this progesterone series.
Ok I learned a new term today from the vet “split heat cycle“… oh and that was because Candy’s Saturday test came back at .5 so we are below the surge hahahaha sheeesh! (David you never told me all this stuff..about breeding…did you want me just to experience it and learn on my own?) hahaha. The vet said it looks like we may have a split heat cycle going on! I said what the heck is that! It is funny to me now…but not to funny at the time. I talked to the vet about all my girls coming into heat…even my pup when she just turned 8 month drawn in by Brandy. Candy however has been very precise and has come into heat every 5 months since I got her till this heat. Brandy however comes into heat all the time… as in if there is any bleeding (after Candy had her pups last year even) Brandy will come into heat again…and that was just 3 months after being in heat. Candy never does that usually… she stays right on her timing till this heat… I expected Candy to come into heat… May 10th - 15th… but she was drawn in early with Brandy and Brena… a first for Candy.
I also talked to the vet about Parker my male, as he was actually more interested in Candy Monday thru Thursday… and things slacked offa bit with Parker… he isn’t acting the same all the sudden or what I would have expected by Friday and Saturday. Was Leerburg right or was something else going on here?.. [Read more →]
I thought I would take the time to quick update the information as to where I am right now with Candy. I thought I would be gone and on my way to breeding by now!! Candy had her first progesterone test Monday at 7 days from me first catching her in heat. That test came back 1.5 so acording to the Leerburg “when the LH surge goes over 1.0 to 1.9 - you breed in 5 to 6 days” so that would be today or tomorrow. I was to take Candy back for another test on Wednesday but couldn’t make it, so went Thursday for a second test. The test reading had gone down to 1.3!! hahaha really it wasn’t to funny to me. So now you say ok… is it 5 to 6 days from the Thursday test that I breed??? Needless to say, my plan for breeding today has been changed… as I now had to get a third test today… I am to get the results in the morning even though it is a Sunday. If the Leerburg site is correct… then in order for me to still hit that timeframe, Candy’s test today should say that she ovulated yesterday on Friday, then I would still fit to the 6th day from the first reading. I guess we will see tomorrow, and so far that is 3 vet trips.
I did call a friend that breeds a lot of her dogs this way, because when you have no stud and you are breeding to top dogs they are required. She did say she has some females that go up to 20 days after starting their heat cycle starts before they ovulate, should that be the case with Candy I have 6 more days of every other day testings. The expense for that starts to climb and I still have to travel 9 hours, so there is a lot more to just the charge of a stud fee involved in your total costs to get the breeding done for sure.
