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Introduction to Training for Ranger Border Collie
Although I haven’t quite mapped out all the goals or even all the problems I am going to keep his blog going so I can monitor progress, fingers crossed there is some! I have posted before on some of...
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Training Day 1- Bird Counter Conditioning
I had great hopes of a strategical checklist of training exercises and videos but so far training has been fairly spontaneous. Today we worked on Ranger and his interaction with my birds. I have two...
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Training Day 2 and 3
Ranger was faced with some massive challenges over the last two days. I decided on a spontaneous visit to the Hunter Valley and of course the dogs had to come too. Ranger is afraid of the car and the...
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Training Day 4 – Obedience Class
I take Syrah to obedience most weeks and today as I could fit two crates in my car I decided to take Ranger too. Syrah loves getting in the car, travel and going anywhere really as the drive is the fun...
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Training Day 5 – Nose Work
Ranger in action :) I started nose work with Ranger about a year ago to build his confidence. He did so well at it but I called it quits with him when I saw just how hard to was for him to travel...
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Training Day 6 – Counter Conditioning, Birds session 3
This is training session 3 with the birds, I can’t believe how well he did. I am rewarding before he has a chance to snap at them or get too stressed and I don’t feel like I’m really pushing him but I...
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Training Day 7: Counter Conditioning and Desensitization to Rangers paws...
Today’s training session was inspired by Dr Sophia Yin’s post about Counter Conditioning for Toenail Trim Aggression. We took a little longer than she did and didn’t make it quite as far but I was...
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Training days 8/9 more counter conditioning and desensitisation to touch
Giving me his paw! It has been so cold and rainy outside but no excuses! Tonight we did some training on our couch bed watching a movie. Ranger is getting really comfortable with me handling his paw...
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The rain stopped! Training Days 10/11/12
Training has been a little slow the last few days. We have done some handling training but the rain has kept the doggies inside and a bit bored. When the rain stopped the doggies had a great run around...
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First steps to getting out and about for Ranger
I take Syrah for a few kilometres walk/run every morning but the possibility of seeing other dogs and sending Ranger over threshold is too great to take him. Besides that he hides under the bed...
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Tetanus in Dogs
My dog Ranger is currently in the animal hospital suffering from Tetanus. I looked around online Saturday night to find some information on it and it was very limited as a result I took him into the...
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Foster Puppies!
Syrah and Ranger now have some four week old fosters friends. Ranger is doing very well, he usually avoids foster pups, not even going in the same room as them but this time he is poking his head in...
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