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Beautiful Cali The Mali

Cali has grown up to be a beautiful dog.  Dark rich color and her pretty face.  Cali now has her French Ring I.  Somewhere along the way she injured her knee so may be a Mondio I, PSA I or extra dog at a FR trial but the larger jumps are not for her at least right now.  It has been more than a year and Vets so for right now it is what it is.  She enjoys lots of stuff.

Cali has started doing detection work.  This weekend is a 3 day seminar for this.  Hope to find my blog page for this so I can report.  

I bred Cali she had 3 pups which is wonderful because I know exactly where they are and hope very well.  I kept a female who I named Zippy and she fits her name.  Love her also.

Zippy is the jumping fool.  She can never keep her 4 feet on the ground.  She just loves it and is small so having a good time with it.  Zippy is a running fool also.  She just loves activities.  So does Cali but at a lower level.  

Zippy Von Christel

Born: October 20, 2013

Zippy got some of her daddies looks along with his speed.  She is small and fast.  Very fast.

I am training Zippy in French Ring but a little slower than Cali because we travel now to train.  We are gypsy trainers.  Love it.

We train daily at my field and travel on the weekends to friends clubs to train.  This can be good and bad as everyone has an opinion.  I listen but choose only people I trust working my dogs in bite work.

Now that I have found my blog page I hope to keep it up.

Swimming Time

Every since my puppy dock diving days I love to jump in the water and swim.  We started out slow with our life vest but after a month mom took it off and well I was a great swimmer and diver.

Swimming Out

There is no pool available and it is pretty hot and humid outside so for my exercise mom takes me to the pond and I get to dive in and swim. 

Swimming Back

Back on shore

Resting after a swim

My first leg in Ring I

Our Trial Decoy, Judge, Mom and me, and another Trial Decoy

 

 

On May 11, 2013 I got my first leg of my Ring I.  We scored a 185.15 out of 200.  This was much more difficult than the Brevet and a lot more parts to learn and remember.  But all in all we did great and our rating was Excellent and again 1st place for the Ring I catagory and 2nd place in the overall trial for that day.  Pretty cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My French Ring Brevet

This is a picture of our big win with my Mom and our Trainer and Decoy Jason Davis

 

I'm sorry it has been such a long time since I've writen on here but Mom got busy with her business and my training and well no time for the blog.

My training must have been going excellent because we went to our first First FRENCH RING TRIAL and I went for my French Ring Brevet.  Both obedience and some bite work.  I won the Brevet trial out of 8 dogs with a score of 99.5 out of 100.  They say if you get a 100 the first time out that is the kiss of death and all after that is only down hill.  No wonder I did not listen to mom when she said down the first time and only listened the 2nd time so lost that 1/2 point.

We havc been training for this day since I was a baby (8 weeks old) and now 20 months old. 

Everybody was nervous except for me and my mom.  We trained so much that it just was like a walk in the part for us.  I love to work with my mom and ofcourse love to bite. 

I am sure it will get more difficult as I am growing up and becoming my own dog so will give mom a little more harder time but  as a team we will do great.

The training adventure up to this point was the best.  We learned so much and I became so correct in my learning.  The touch pads came in handy and I'm glad that I learned them.  I love to jump and touch pads made it so easy for me to learn the routine.  Although the jumps are not in the Brevet we practice them anyway because I love to jump..

Mom watched a clicker Youtube video when teaching me to wear the muzzle.  She never had to pressure me to keep that thing on because it did not bother me.

The French Ring Brevet exercises were Heel on leash, where I walk next to mom and sit when she stops.  Food Refusal, I'm left in a down stay and mom goes out of sight and a piece of food is thrown around where I am laying down.  Heel with a muzzle.  We aced this one because of the clicker training to wear that thing.  Absense, which is a down stay and mom goes out of sight for a minute.

Next is the cool stuff.  Bite work.  The fist exercise is the defence of handler.  Me and mom walk up to a decoy.  They exchange hello and goodbyes and then mom and me keep walking.  The decoy follows behind us.  The cool part here is that I get to go around mom and face the decoy.  I'm walking backwards.  When the decoy gets up close he hits mom on the back and I get to bite him.  When mom says out I have to let go and guard the decoy.  A few seconds later I hear that whistle which means to come back to my mom and stay by her side.  Exercise over.

The next exercise which is the last in the Brevet is called the face attack.  This is where I lost that 1/2 point.  Mom has to tell me down and for some reason I got selective hearing because I wanted to run down that field and bite or she just didn't say it firmly but I did down the second command and waited for her to tell me to attack.  I got to run down the field and bite the decoy who is swinging a clatter stick around me.  How cool is that.  Then I heard that whistle blow and I let go and came right back to mom.  Picture perfect...

And now have our FR Brevet with 99.5 points out of 100...

Hold

I really do know how to hold a pvc pipe in my mouth.  We had to go back a few steps but once we did I did great. Mom put her hands one on top and one on the bottom of my muzzle just saying yes when I was calm and I was and got a treat.

I was not even real hungry but I must have made mom crazy in the house so she took me out to train which to me is play because I just like interaction.

Us dogs are like that especially me at my wild child age.

The next thing we did was mom put her hands back around my muzzle and pulled me forward by pulling on my collar a little (it was a flat collar), and she moved me to come forward with her hands around the muzzle. I did. And yes and treat. Then she put her hands around my muzzle and pushed back a little and I went into a sit. Yes and treat.

We did this a few times and then the pvc pipe. She just put it in my mouth with her hand under my muzzle and petted my nose. I like being petted. Then yes and treat. Next time a little petting and yes and treat.

Then we played hose fetch. I love to get it and come back and play keep away or tug hard with mom, but today I came back and let go more easy cause I know I get to run and chase it cause she throws it out for me.

Today we did a little different, she held my collar and threw it into the high grass. I pretty much saw the area it went so just sniffed a little and found it. I tried to watch where it landed but then she held me she waived her hand in front of me so I got distracted and threw my hose toy (which by the way I made from chewing up the entire hose). She let me see it go but did not let me see where it landed. Of course I checked the closest places first and where it had been the last few times but nope it was not there. I searched and searched and mom said not one thing of encouragement so I didn’t know if I was close or not but I was not giving up and kept searching till I found it. Yippeeeee,,, and I came running back to mom. The next time she threw it even though she held my collar she let me see where it landed but the grass was high so I used my nose too and thought this game is the best…

Fetch

This is my sock and these are the little strings mom trys to move me with.  Was not working for us.

Each week mom asks the trainer Jason Davis from Karma k9 one thing to improve on.  It was the hold because we missed some steps and Jason thought we were farther along.  That is why pulling on those strings on my socks made me crazy to shake my head and play like with the tug.  It was supposed to be gradual.

So I heard a dvd today with someone talking about it.  Mom must have pulled out the Michele Ellis Retreive training or something.

We worked with Jason a bit and all is clear what we are to do so I am sure we will this week.

Before Jason came over to us we played with the muzzle but I got a little confused because I only learned click treat.

She put the muzzle on me but when she said yes instead of the clicker I was surprised because we only trained the muzzle with click treat.  Today it was "Yes" treat.  But that didn't take me long to realize Yes treat..

I did a down stay and some good some bad so we will work on that I am sure all times.

For our bite work exercises we started out with the defence of handler.  I am getting it better and better each time and we are making strides.  Mom still is not sure when it is time for me to bite but heck I do cause I am facing the decoy following us. 

Im not sure what you call these just yet but I run loose and chase the decoy and he trys to get away from me.  I was not as fast today because I am starting to think to get to that bite and when and where. 

When I get to that part that I don't have to think and just do it watch out decoys cause Ima catch ya....  French Ring and I would think with Mondio is the dogs need to think more.  In Schutzhund they just bite on the middle of a sleeve.  In knpv they show the dogs were to bite.  In these ring sports where you bite is where you bite and it can always be different.

I have to run farther to mom for the whistle now and one time I came fast for the tug bite after biting on the suit that mom was surprised and did not have a hand on the leash.  Once I realized this I droped the tug and ran back to bite on the bite suit.  Mom said, nope and the decoy kinda said no also so I did not bite him and proceeded onto some victory laps.  Finally after many Cali Comes, I came back to mom and I know she was a little mad but she was happy to see me come back to her.

I felt a few nudges when she called me but did not understand them.  Well no fun running on my own so I came back.



So off to the start we went again.  I love to chase the decoy...

Training

I love my training.  We train every day.....  Can not wait until tomorrow to train with Jason Davis from Karma K-9 cause he has lots of great ideas ...

It is funny because there is no one way.  Mom watched Michale Ellis dvds and really likes them.  We went back to them now....

I go crazy with those strings on my sock.  It is like play a way and I tug and i pull but missing the entire exercise because of it. 

Now I learn the way hold no matter what it is.

My Sock

This is my sock that I have to bring back to mom.  She put these little yarn braids on them and now I have to sit with it in my mouth.  I am confused.

She saw the trainer do it and it was a much differnt picture than mom and me. 

I was taught "Hold" early in life but for some reason can't get the 2 words together.  sit and hold.  and then when holding go from a sit to moving with still holding.............  omggggggggg

A great day...

Today I went to learn more things for French Ring.  Me and mom worked on a few things on our own while the trainer worked with another dog.  We did our touch pads but I am still a little slow or hesitant or impatient to do it the 3rd time.  Finally I did and yippeeee,,, the toy...

Mom took me to the other part of the field and played with the 2 balls.  Maybe it was more then we should have done because I was tired for the rest, but it was fun anyway.  I think this part of the training is more for mom to learn so I just went through the motions cause I was a little tired and hot.  Those will be our new fun games to do during the week.  How cool is that.

I know I am past my limit in the heat when my desire for the toy is low.  It is hot here. 

Then for the bite work.  Mom talked to the trainer before today to tell him she wanted me to have more fun.  Ommgggggg,,,,, and we did.

I did a little defence training.  I think mom is not sure when I am to go and does not want to correct me so is not consistant with that.  Today she learned the when I am to bite without looking back. 

After that I got to do free bites.  No bungie, no line, no cones, no barrel, just run loose and bite.  My decoy had fun trying to get out of my way but I am more confidant to just bite and not think where to bite because I already learnd that.

I loved the chase and going to get faster.  Head on I barrel in but the little moves to make me faster are so cool and I will get faster...

I was pretty hot after the bite work but the problem with that is I am getting used to going swimming.  Hope we stay there for a long time or I will miss that.

Mom takes me to the pond near where we train and throws my orange floating dumb bell.  I love to jump in and swim.  The water is airated and constantly moving so not so many misquitos breeding and the water feels cool to me.

I hope Milt comes back to Jacksonville and finds a good home for his Ultimate air dogs pool.

One year old today

So much has happened since I last came on here.  That's me alright sitting pretty with my blue ribbon on.  I won in the Jr division at an ultimate air dogs show.  How cool is that.  I am sure that was a few months ago as the pool has been moved elsewhere.

Mom and I have been working really hard these last months.  We still go to Sunday morning training with our French Ring Sport friends and during the week we do so many cool things.  We even have been going into stores with our service dog in trainig vest on. 

Most days we train at moms work.  Sometimes inside and some times out side.  She got me a basket to start me to put my feet in it and I get a bite and she plays with me and is teaching me when to let go and go back to the basket.

And also a real fun new toy but I can only play retreive with mom and this fun toy.  I even know who rolled it up for mom cause I smelled him on the socks. 

This is our new retrieve toy for French Ring.  They told me it could be a sock rolled up, a glove or a gasses case.

And ofcourse some fun bite work and that is going really good.  I am just starting to bite the upper body.  Mom has to go and get a barrel for me to jump over. 

It is more serious these days but mom still keeps it fun for me and her.  I try real heard but being my age it is not so easy. 

Training on Sundays

On Sundays we have been meeting with some of mom's friends and training friends.  When it was our turn for obedience when we got to the field we were greeted by mom's friend Brian.  He said he is our new mentor to get us real trained.  I had fun ofcourse but this was serious time.  Sit means sit and I better do it or else I feel that little pinch.  I got treats on the touch pad for going back and forth from one to the other and rewarded with the tug for the sit and staying.  I am now learning to stay in a sit and a down.  If I get up mom says Nope and puts me back in my place.  We will practice this all week and I know I will get it quick.

Today Brian was feeling better and even put the suit on for me to bite.  Wow he is a tall guy.  I was put on a bunjie cord and when I got to the end it got tighter but the leg I was to bite was in reach.  Except for one time I just hit the end and went to bite but did not close my mouth fast enough and I went tumbling over cause that bunjie is like a rubber band and pulled me back.  The next time I did not miss. 

Before I go for the bite I now have to stay in a down and look at mom until she tells me the word "attack" and off I go.....

We did a second session and this time mom's friend Jason had the suit jacket turned backwards and I got to bite on the upper body.  That thing is heavy but I carried it as far as a could after the bite.  We did this a few times and each time I won that jacket and got to carry it.  When I was done I almost made it all the way to the car carrying that jacket but it was really heavy so I had to let it go..  awwww,,,,

A Great Sunday

Sorry no picture or video today but none was taken.  But I had a great day anyway because training is so much fun for me. 

On Sunday Afternoon mom took me to the spot where we meet our friends for a fun time of training.  I did my touch pads, back and forth but still a little slow.  I get off fast because mom has that good ole tug toy for me to bite but getting there I am a little slow.  I have not yet figured out if I get there fast I get off fast and all the quicker it is to get my bite tug and play. 

We worked a little on our down stay and I think that will work out in time.  Just time and paitence

Then for some more fun tug play.  Mom holds my collar and throws the tug over the jump.  She lets me go fly over the jump and then runs over to where I am and we play tug.  How much fun is that.  I love to jump and love to play tug.  Kinda like the two birds with one stone theory here.

We did our heeling with the tug under moms arm to get my pretty little head looking towards her.  We are making progress with this but it takes time and paitence and me and my mom seem to both have this.

After me and mom did our thing the others took out their dogs to play.  I had to wait in the crate in the car.  I am starting to be more paitent and quiet while waiting.

Then comes my turn for the bite work.  Yiiipppeeee,,,,,

I have to get all dressed up for this with my harness, prong collar, flat collar and mom brings all her tools.  When I got to the field they added another prong collar on me for one of the exercises but I was a little figity with this so mom took it off of me for now.  We never did do the exercise that needed those two collars so it never went back on that day.

Today they had this long bungie cord tied to a tree.  They tied my harness to it and made me lay down.  I am not allowed to go bite until mom tells me "attack" the word used for my bite work.  I am also learning not to go to the field like a barking fool and to have some composure about my self and heel with my mom.  I think mom likes this better also because I am not pulling her arms out of the sockets dragging her to the field.

Anyway, I have to look at mom from my down stay and then she tells me to "attack" and away I run for the bite.  Being tied to the bungie lets me sping into the bite and the decoy can have me bite where he wants. 

Well today as I was biting a big fluffy dog came to join me on the other leg.  I did not know what to do or what the other dog was going to do so I stopped biting.  But the other dog was taken away and again I resumed my bite work. 

We did this bungie attack quite a few times and each time I got better with my down stay and look at mom and she got better with when and what to say to me.  I think this day was a success all around.

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.

Bite work training

Mom met some really nice people who I get to bite on.  One of them is new to me and on Saturday night she took me to a field where they would be.

The first round on the new guy was great because he wore the leg sleeves which I am familiar with.  I did the usually dirty outs and not wanting to down but he convinced me to do them.

The 2nd round he put on the full bite suit and mom held me tight on the harness and he came in and gave me a bite.  I did not commit like usuall because this felt and tasted different in my mouth.  The decoy knew this so petted my head.  Oh, he even kissed me on the head  I think that is #3 decoy to do this.  Guess I am a cutie pie.

Anyway, the decoy sensed my reluctance but I still held on.  He started to play more with me and move more and to me I bit harder.  As they say "Game on".

It was harder for me to care to let go and down but he helped me into it so all was well.

The next day I worked on who I knew and all went well.  Still slow or re-bity with those outs but the decoys help me there.

The next round I bit on the new guy and getting pissed at all his help with the outs and downs.  The next thing I knew it was not him.  It was the other person behind him.  I was still getting pissed but outed and downed anyway.

I know the reason that they did this was because the decoy was correcting me to much and I need to fight him.

Reviewing the Seminar

When we finally got home I had a day off.   I don't like that cause I don't get to play with mom so much.  I think Mom wanted the day off.

The next day and in these past few weeks mom would take me to train at all different places.  We would practice the heeling and outs and downs and sits.  When we train at her work there is a jump there so we started using the touch pads for me to go back and forth over the jump.  I know the touch pad so she is just training me the jump and what to do when I get to the other side.  But when I say jump I do not mean it is high.  I think about 6 inches or maybe 12 inches as of now.  Being a puppy mom wants to watch my growing bones.

Mom and I usually train alone but a few Sundays ago we went out to the Schutzhund club to train around other people. 

I waited, waited and waited until finally it was our turn.  When we got to the field there was another dog working with a squeaky toy.  It was hard for me to pay attention to anything else even mom.  But when she got out my brand new tug toy I was loving playing with mom and started to ignore that other dog with the squeaky toy. 

We worked on our healing and a little sits, downs and stays with an occasional stand put in there.

The other dog left to go do the jumps so we played on the field having so much fun.  Mom's friend was there watching and helping out which mom appreciates because she can not always see what she needs to when training.

On Monday mom's friend came over to her work so we could train all the more.  That was great and mom loved the help.  We did our heeling, sits, downs, stands, stays and worked on the jump with the touch pads.

The Seminar Day 1, 2 & 3

Picture will come soon

I knew something was going on because all my dog family came to work with Mom today.  hmmmm  what can it be.  We all got baths and the car was full of crates.  Usually just mine is in the car.  We all went home after the big bath day and did the usuall with me playing in the yard, eating dinner and then sleepy time.

Mom got up earlier than usuall and loaded us all up.  We even had a little rescue dog going along.  Then all the suit cases and the cooler full of dog food. 

We drove about 3 or more hours and then we were there.  The place was familiar.  I know it from a previous visit.  Yep, we were gonna have fun now at a Dog Training Seminar.

Ivan B who is one of the best trainers (my Mom thinks), in the world was holding a 3 day seminar and my Mom got a ticket for me to go.  The other dogs were just along for the ride but I think enjoyed hanging out with Mom when on a break.

I waited paitentaly for my turn and then it came.  Mom got all my gear on me,  collar, pinch collar, harness, treats in her pocket, balls in another and the fun tug.  We went to the training field and Ivan asked Mom to show how she was starting my "heeling".  We started with food along the fence since I was a youngster.  You know the Muscle Memory Stuff..  Well my muscle is memorized to stay up. 

BUT, "Mom" told Ivan she did not know how to get off of the fence to do some real "Heeling" with me.  Ivan asked what else I knew in words.  She said, "Sit" and "Down", which I did but when she said the down word my mind went blank.  I think part is because she is now switching all my commands to English instead of French.  Makes it easier for Mom to not have to think of another language.  I think it is hard enough for her to teach me in English so we changed.

She even said the "Down" word in French, but again my mind went blank.  I think Mom was a little nervous being our first day and everything. 

Ivan said, just take out the tug and lets learn the game.  Wow, I love games.

I am learning at such a fast pace but always like to get in those cheapy shots,

We played the game for a few days and on day 3 Ivan showed us the correct way to do the heel or to start it anyway.

He told mom to put her left hand outside of my left ears and go to under my chin to pull my head up to say watch me.  I did and got a toy.  But then she took a few steps and said the word heel (which is to walk by her side) and I had no clue so put on the brakes.  That is when Ivan stepped in and showed me how.  Again I put on the brakes because I had no clue why he was pushing my behind down and pulling my neck up with the collar.  But every time I stressed he threw the tug toy and we got to play.  I forgave him and back to learning again so we could play.

This was all a little tough on me because it was new so when Ivan was done with me we played and it ended. 

Mom and me practiced since we came home only she is going slow so I don't learn the wrong way.  That is ok cause we get to play all the more.

We always practice our sits and downs and outs with something added in there.

I really love training because training to me is like playing only I am learning,

We did obedience each morning and bite work in the afternoon.  Since I am now doing French Ring we are biting on the legs or puppy leg sleeves.

Mom tied me to a post with my harness hooked up and I jumped and barked until Ivan put one of those legs in my reach to bite.  This was all a little different to me so I did not bite so hard and whoops the leg went out of my mouth and I had to lure him back in to get to bite,  He teased me alot at first which made me a little more determined that I was gonna bite that leg.  I bit and hung on for all it was worth.  We played this game until I was way tired and then I got to run to the car with the leg sleeve.

On day 2 Ivan knew how I was so wanted to work on making me miss a leg and go for the one closest not the one moving away.  In French Ring they judge the dog on the seconds it takes to get to the bite so biting the closest leg is the better choice.

But me being a puppy likes the movement of things.

By day 3 I was finally getting it and bit the leg closer rather then the one moving.

On day 3 we trained inside a building because it was a little hot outside.  That did not phase me in the least.  All I could see was getting a bite.  This time Ivan made my mom tell me to down stay before he came to give me a bite.  This was very hard for me to do but finally with a little persistance I did it.

Still my outs and downs were a little sloppy but mom says that will get better with time.  I am just so excited to bite that I hate to let go,,,