Just for Fun

I didn't have any sort of plan or goals with Eden tonight so I just took her into the basement training room and started doodling around :-) We both had a great time. We worked on tugging (clicker trained), killing the toy (new behavior I am marking), perching on a strange, new object (kettlebell), the elevated pushboard and her very exuberant retrieve. I am pretty sure I was smiling or laughing the whole time! She's sooo cute :-)

Walking with Midas

Allison came over with Midas to walk with Eden, Kastle and I. Midas was WHOOPED after our walk :-)

 The April birthday puppers, Eden at 2 years, Midas at 7 years. Love them both dearly.

Eden's 2 Year Birthday!!

My little girl is two years old today!! I cannot believe it - she seems so mature to me, at the same time she's so young! LOL I <3 her!

She's got the sweetest, cutest smile ever!

She's pretty cute when she pounces too :-)

With one of her bestest buddies, Pan.

Happy Birthday Sweet Eden, and many more to come! :-D

Laid-Back Flyball

Tonight Eden was being really silly, we had a ton of dogs to get through and several videos so Eden did not have a serious practice at all :-) I think she had a good time though. She started out by racing into the building and hopping up onto the agility table with Nikon - adorable! One of the visitors brought her young daughter, who wanted to try running a dog "for real" so I volunteered Eden. Eden loves children and did wonderfully! :-D For the last runs we tried to set her up to chase Poppy down the lane to see if we could get more speed from her (Poppy is much more drive-y than Eden and fast!), nope, same exact speed. Not a whole lot phases my Eden-Pie! LOL

Basement Training and Silliness

I am continuing to work with Eden on the elevated push board with the jump board in front. I want to build the muscle memory to jump high and back fast. She looks lovely on there, now to get her to realize how to transfer to the "real" box. We are almost ready to do the walking weaves with no hand/food lure as well! She's so smart! She learns like a Border Collie :-) Lastly we worked on her back up (beep beep beep) trick. She can really move that little rear when she wants to!

And a funny video. I had worked with Kastle, before I got Eden out, on the pushboard with the jumbo jump board in front of it, over-emphasizing his high, tight turn. Eden comes running into the training room and whips out a boxturn on the jump board LOL Apparently it was way too high to consider going over, so she just went on it LOL Love her!

Slammers Flyball Tournament

Eden ran only on the team (instead of singles) this weekend. No video from Saturday but a compilation video of her team runs on Sunday. She did well, not fast, but clean (mostly). A few new things popped up - she is tugging, thrashing and growling at her toy - this is WONDERFUL! She tried to herd a teammate's dog on her way to pass, also good, means she is in drive. I was able to redirect her down the lane so that was fine. She had several runs where there was no ball or the ball was loaded on the wrong side of the box, did this phase Eden? Heck no! She reran in her classic, happy, bouncy-bouncy run. She's got a heart of gold, a good work ethic and is so adorable and charismatic! I love her! Many people commented on her willingness and cuteness too :-) She ran one time for each race on Saturday and the same on Sunday (sharing a spot on the team with another dog) but I pulled her from the last two races - she was exhausted. There were 6 races each day and she's not used to running that much!

Cardigan Schutzhund Protection

We played Schutzhund with Eden today :-) She did a little bit of barking, a little bit of biting, some growling. Pretty much the cutest Cardigan EVER. Obviously it was all a lot of fun and games, not serious on anyone's part. But, it was funny!

The adorable video!

Park Play

The pups are so cute and Eden is sooooo good with Finn :-)

She's also a crazy roller, she must have rolled in 15 different spots this afternoon!

With her sister.

Flyball Website

The team's website is being updated so I needed some pictures of my dogs in their harnesses...Here is Eden :-)

 Then she got tired...

The rest of the photos of cutie-Pie can be viewed HERE.