I have had a break for the last couple of weeks from freestyle as i have been rather distracted duck herding ! if you haven't seen the new video yet of Pogo at work then go to the sheepdog blog page on the website. I have been pleased how Pogo has been working but just as she did with the sheep she is getting more confident with them so i have to be on the ball when working her.
Whizzy is the one that i am surprised at as i took her down the garden to the ducks basically to use her to try and get the ducks to move away from a dog better. Whizzy though had other ideas and found her inner collie, moving around the ducks in both directions. Sometimes it almost looks like she wants to play with them but then she concentrates more and moves around well. Unlike Pogo, Whizzy has not been taught big circles in freestyle yet so its interesting for me to have a dog to work who does the circling around the ducks naturally and i am putting the command to it as she does it.
Although freestyle has been taking a back seat i have i think (fingers crossed ) decided which pieces of music i will use next. Trying to come up with something different is always hard but hopefully the pieces i have chosen for Pogo are different from this years routines. So i have started to teach some moves which Pogo has not done before and am off soon to buy the relevant props.
The next few weeks will be busy with lots of displays and workshops to teach so i hope the weather is good. Below is a picture taken at the first outside display of the year in May, as you can see Betty was full of life : )
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