Jet's Furkid Palace: Barbie passing level 1

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Barbie passing level 1

(Barbie and Mittens chilling)

Barbie passed her level 1 test today. I am so proud of my little greyhound. She still didn't want to go with Desma when she led her away for the recall. I found a bigger tunnel today and Barbie actually put both her front feet into it. It's still not as big as a competition tunnel. The two little dogs went through the tunnel a lot. There is a little mop called Bowie who is still a pup, food motivated, toy motivated and loves the jumps and tunnels. They have joined up with Cloverdale agility club and I am looking forward to seeing him in action. Barbie was even sitting for the other people in the class. She is familiar with them all now and was willing to take direction from them!

Bender, Barbie, Nic and I are going to check out a local club on Friday night. Hopefully the Level 2 course will start soon, and then Desma is planning on holding the first Canine Good Citizen course in Western Australia (and Barbie will be the first WA Greyhound with a CGC). We need to suss out the club first in case they don't want a greyhound in their midst while the stupid laws are still in place. I won't be quoting the Dog Act to them though.

My ankle is healing up OK, and I can walk like a normal person. My finger is pretty gross looking, but I've adapted to typing with 9 digits instead of 10. I am looking forward to checking out the local agility club.

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Houndstooth · 761 weeks ago

Congratulations to Barbie! I am not one bit surprised that she passed!

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Greyhounds CAN Sit · 761 weeks ago

Wow, congratulations to you and Barbie:-) What was involved in Level 1? I'm seriously impressed. So pleased you're nearly all better:-)

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jetsagenda 82p · 761 weeks ago

The level 1 is:

Walking on a loose lead for 20 m including an about turn (she heeled)
Remain sitting or on all four feet when a person stops at a distance of 1m
Walking by the handler's side for 10m sitting and lying down at designated spots
Calm a dog within 5 seconds after a short play session
Able to politely tolerate other class members within close proximity
Handler able to call the dog to them from a distraction of 10 metres away within 20 seconds.

Food can only be used at the end of a skill and can't be used as a lure.

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Sugar · 761 weeks ago

Woof! Woof! Happy BLOG HOP Weekend. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

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Mary P · 761 weeks ago

Passing through from the blog hop. Pleased to meet you!

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fermentingdesign 52p · 761 weeks ago

Hopped on by from the Blog Hop and congrats on passing Level 1!
Sniff you later, Sage

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Ingrid · 760 weeks ago

Congrats to you both! Onwards & Upwards for a Level 2 pass & the CGC award too!

Actually I think Barbie & Rex are the only two Greys I know of in Australia working towards these?? I think there may be one in QLD too, Love to see more Greys 'out & about' !

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jetsagenda 82p · 760 weeks ago

Well, hopefully there will be more :) This will be the first CGC offered in WA so she will be the first Greyhound in WA by default. I still think there is this perception that greyhounds can't be trained, along with the fact that there aren't that many of them as pets here in WA. Barbie's reserved nature means that she passes the social type tests easily. I think Bender would struggle with a lot of the polite greeting and tolerating other dogs stuff.

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Greyhounds CAN Sit · 760 weeks ago

Lol, Frankie and Bender came out of the same mould:-) Beryl is quite social in that she does like to politely meet other dogs and people, then she can relax and feel she's behaved appropriately for a princess:-) And that's the one thing I don't like about CGC training, at least in our class, dogs saying Hi is kind of frowned on. I don't want her getting any sort of bad feelings about other dogs and people by taking her away before she's greeted them .... so I keep letting her say hello, the other people can drag their dogs away if they're not happy about it! It's not like she wants to jump all over the other dogs and people and get them to play and it's only before we start training. Is it like that in your class?

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jetsagenda 82p · 760 weeks ago

Our trainer is pretty mellow. We let them all play off leash before we start. Barbie is the oldest in the class by a year or so... which means she isn't that interested in their puppy games. She says hello politely and then keeps out of their way :)

Bender is the kind of dog that jumps up as people bend down to say hello to them and smacks them in the mouth with his big boof head. He likes to climb on other dogs or bark at them when he is leashed, depending on whether he finds them threatening or not. Poor boy has had some bad experiences so I understand where he's coming from. We try to help him overcome his fears and he is getting better, but he's pretty unpredictable sometimes.

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Jennifer · 760 weeks ago

Yeah!!! Congrats on passing Level 1.

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