Training with the puppies

by | Nov 21, 2011 | Training with the Puppies

This is Barley (with his owner, Trudy) waiting for his turn, Pippa (yes, she’s a Toller, not a Golden)with Andrea and our Crispin with the winged bumper. All the puppies came out training yesterday with the big dogs and had a great time learning to fetch up the...

Crispin and Barley

by | Nov 14, 2011 | Crispin and Barley

While Rowan and I were in Lindsay at the Georgina trial, Crispin went to training class with Mark. She got to hang out with her brother Barley. By all accounts the puppies had a good time playing with each other. Nick and Trudy brought their niece with them to class...

Oakley

by | Nov 14, 2011 | Oakley

This is Oakley, with Lily and Alexis. Oakley is Crispin’s brother. He lives a bit north of us and is growing up to be Lily and Alexis’s pal, as well as Stew’s hunting dog.

Rowan got some CDX legs today

by | Nov 13, 2011 | Rowan got some CDX legs today

Rowan’s very proud of himself. We got 2 legs towards his CDX today at Georgina’s trial. We have a few things to work on – he was higher than a kite and heeled around the ring like a bunny rabbit, so we lost a bunch of points on heeling. He also...

Training Crispin

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Training Crispin

I am having much fun training my new Crispin. I must admit, that for the past 4 weeks I’ve really struggled to pay much attention to her. I’ve been mourning the loss of my sweet Autumn and in some ways it felt disloyal to her to focus too much on the puppy. Not...