Our Private Spot

Mom's friend told her of a hidden park where not many go to unless there is an event or Baseball game.  There are a lot of trees before the baseball field so we can train in the shade.

Yesterday we worked on our Heeling, our retreive, and ofcourse our famouse outs and downs.  I think mom is very relaxed there because she laughs alot when training with me.

Yesterday we did our heeling and then the outs and downs.  When we were done with that mom did some hold work with me but I was all panting and stuff so we stopped that and went back to a few heels and out downs.

I am a little cheater and if I get the chance "whoops" I will take a sneaky bite.

Today we did the retreives first and I am magnificant on the holding part but when I run out to get this orange floater dumb bell I pick it up from the end and not the middle.  I think it is frustrating my mom.

I hold real well and come into her front and sit but when she throws that thing with the big ends and middle pole I pick it up from the ends and not the middle.  hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... 

People say training is fun and it is.  You just have to have the right human to do it with.

I am sure mom will figure out a way to convince me to pick up that dumb bell from the middle. 

Stay tuned for more....

Loving the bite work

Yes, I bite but on the bite suit.  I really love people and if you knew me you would know that. 

After my fun jumping time I got to practice my bite work.  Jason (mom's friend and Great Decoy) put on them big ole pants and I got to bite on them.

Mom told me to down and waited until I paid attention to her (looked her in the eyes) and then she told me to "attack".  That is the word she uses to tell me ok to go get him and bite. 

My head is spinning a little bit because first she tells me to lay down, then she wants me to look at her and then go bite.  When she says the "attack" command I hesitate because I am not sure but a second later I know the decoy is calling me to the challenge and I go. 

I am a true lefty.  I turn to the left on spins and look for the left leg to bite.  But, in this sport I have to bite a certain leg only not sure which one yet. 

Being young is great and I am sure with great humans around me I will be the best little Malinois girl I can be.

Jumping, jumping, jumping,,,

I'm not sure who is having more fun.  Me jumping or Mom being my cheer leader.  This is the first time I jumped the Ring Sport Jump and with the help of a French Ring guy we had a blast.

Ok, so I can jump in the pool but my back legs still touch it.  I think as I grow bigger and stonger I will clear that pool also.

I jumped and I played.  Click the videos to see.

My first Blue Ribbon

Me the little fish in the water.......

I know mom has gotten off the beat in track and not writing so much the past few weeks but things got bizzy and yes we did some training but not so much. 

My big adventure of a few weeks ago was a Dock Diving Competition.  I just started and was a youngster there so put in the JR. Division.  I even won my first blue ribbon.  First place diving out 13.5 feet in the water.  How much fun that was. 

Although I think I should have a handicap in all this cause my mom is the worst thrower in the world.  She throws it to the side, over the edge right where I jump and sometimes way in the air so I can't see it.  But inspite of her I had fun and I think so did she cause she just laughed and said, sorry Cali, you have the worst thrower out here.  Hope she will practice as she and I do with all the stuff we do.

Milt the pool guy (actually the man who runs the pool events and owns the pool), loves to play with us dogs throwing stuff for us in the pool.  A bad thing happened.  Not to me but to the pool stairs.  They went missing at another place so there was no way to get into the pool.

Good ole Milt taught me to jump over the side instead of using the stairs.  Just so that I could swim and retreive my bumper toy.  I tried this a few times and wallaaaa,,,  I loved it. 

I will admit I do love to swim and the weather is getting warmer.  Now when mom throws the bumper into the pool I go in and get it and just swim around like a little fish.  I take my time to get out and just enjoy the water and swimming.  How much fun is that. 

Now I am helping other dogs to learn to jump in from the side because who knows when the stairs will get there.

The other day there was a very handsome boy dog out there a big Pit Bull dog who I ran around and showed off my bumper toy.  I thought he wanted my toy but I think he was fresh on me.  He wanted to follow me so bad that he saw me in the pool and when they put him in to follow me out he swam so fast that his head was on my back.  I did not like this so growled at him to back off.  He did being the nice dog that he was. 

We did train once or twice with our freinds in French Ring but life happens and they have not been able to make it to train with me.  Mom says me and her are gonna go back to having fun training and working at her work place until we all meet up again.  Maybe I will really let go for once in my life.

Hard for a cutie pie like me to think the world is serious.