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.

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!

Congrats to all the new legs and titles!

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.

Link to video click here

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.

To funny, I love seeing it happen.

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.