I don’t know about you Juliet but I’m pretty sure our Mother is evil.

Shhhhh!! You are breaking my concentration!! Leeaavvvee iiitttt….

Woooooooot!! After much hard work on our part (and panting on Mother’s part) we have earned our Jumpers Dog title!

Yes! And I did it really fast! Teehee!

Yea whatever. I like to take my time. I’ve got 2 more Qs under my belt in Open, so you still got some catching up!

Don’t you be worrying! I’mma gonna beatcha! Anyway, Mumsy says she’s awfully proud of us and of everything we have accomplished!

We got to eat yummy Lawry’s steak after each trial!

Romeo is now Romeo Sangiovese, JD & Juliet is Sharndah Star Crossed Luva, JD!

26th March 2011 - Judge Gloria Page (Australia) - Romeo: Jumpers Novice 2nd & 3rd

30 July 2011 - Judge Keith Millington (Australia) - Romeo: Novice Jumpers 1st; Juliet Novice Jumpers 2nd

3 September 2011 - Judge Lawrie Knauth (Australia) - Romeo: Open Jumpers 1st and 2nd; Juliet Novice Jumpers 1st and 1st

Lawry's - Food for champions!

Mother is going to be making some jumps again because somehow, an entire bag of PVC pipes has gone missing, leaving her with not enough PVC to make 4 decent jumps.

You mean agility jump hurdles? I saw Mumsy busy drawing out her jump plans! Here are her plans for making a simple standard jump or hurdle for agility!

The blue parts are them PVC T shaped connectors or jump cups (which can be made from T shaped connectors), while the white bits are the PVC pipes.

Mumsy mumbled something about 3/4 inch diameter pipes being enough and that they are lighter and easier to carry around than the 1 inch ones. Oh and then she said something about getting PVC glue to glue some of the bits together.

Her drawing skills leave much to be desired!

I added the hearts over the i’s! Teehee!

Mumsy entered Romeo into the USDAA trials last weekend (16 July) and Romeo actually WON stuff! *gasp!*

Why is that so hard to believe!

Mumsy said that some time back she posted a picture of you at the USDAA trial ground and practically cackled when people suggested you entered the trial. Teehee! See! Here’s the original post!

Well who’s laughing now!

Yes Mumsy is most pleased and said back then she could not see you joining USDAA much less coming in 3rd for Gamblers (with a Q) and 1st for Performance 1 Jumpers (no Q)!

Hmpf. I sure showed her!

Hmm. Is it just me, or does Mumsy look… roasted?

Mumsy says that every dog parent should know how to read their dogs.

Why?

Coz then they’ll know how to prevent dogs like YOU from getting into trouble!

You mean like when I walk the talk at the dog run? *looks macho*

Yes, when you go around pissing off the other dogs at the dog run. If other dog parents know how to tell if their dog is happy, stressed or pissed off, they’ll be able to help the dog out so the dog doesn’t take things into its own paws and get into fights or become really scared or get hurt!

So dog parents should learn to talk Dog?

Yes! Dogs “speak” a different language and communicate differently to humans. If humans want to be responsible pawrents they should learn to talk Dog! And they can learn it from Jean Donaldson!

Mother says she’s a great dog trainer and canine behaviourist.

Duh! She did a seminar to help dog pawrents learn how to speak Dog. Everyone should watch it! There are 7 very informative parts to this seminar on Youtube. You should be able to find them all from the link to the first part below. Happy learning!

[Juliet does some hind leg awareness training, while her Mother withholds treats to show the world that the little Princess gets incredibly frustrated with her mumsy when her mumsy is slow/not paying attention/being mean and not giving treats/waiting for a different behaviour to click.]

COME ON. Give me the treat already! ARrrgghhrrawwrrawrr

Cavaletti!

Yes I know what Mother said, but what the heck is that?

I don’t really know. I just saw her take out some poles and make a ladder thingy.

Huh. Oh well, another one of Mother’s nutty training exercises!

Late last year, Mother entered me into my first jumpers trial. We’ve been training for some time and she thought we could give it a go. We didn’t qualify because Mother said I couldn’t keep it in my pants. I don’t get it. Why CAN’T I pee in the tunnel?

Here’s a video of my brother’s big booboo!

Hey! That’s not supposed to be made public!

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Mother bellows out to her assistant dog trainer (Father), military style “You! Sit there! Take treats! Give one, only ONE treat per dog, per recall. Call their name only once if possible! Quick! On the double!”

What’s going on Romeo?

It’s more of that 5 minutes a day dog training thing Mother is doing with us.

OHYAY! *jumps around like popcorn*

What yay, they just want us to respond immedia….”

Mother: JULIET!

Father: ROMEO!

*runs to Mother*

*runs to Father*

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*groan* Mother signed up for some e-course online yesterday. That means more training every day!

YAY! More training! More treats! I’m so loving the course already! It’s so much fun!

What exactly is fun about having one’s collar grabbed?!

That’s not all there is! There’ll be more soon, it’ll get more interesting! But the idea is that Mother has to follow the e-course and train for at least 5 minutes a day! She says this will help improve our recall. I don’t really need to improve mine coz mine is FAB-U-LOUS. *beams*

Uh huh.

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