A Belated Merry Christmas

............. from Ivy. No, I'm not into dressing up my working breed dogs, but if the kelpies can cope with a Christmas themed collar for photos, then Ivy can cope with a bib velcroed around her neck for all 15 seconds while I take a photo. Knew that sit-stay was going to come in handy!


We've had a little break from 'running around type training' as she was spayed a couple of weeks back, but the stitches are due to come out in the next day or so and she is more than ready to go. In the meantime we've had fun doing some shaping stuff with the clicker. Almost have speak on command as our first real trick, others will hopefully follow soon.

I have also taken the past couple of weeks to try and document her training a bit more thoroughly and to try and get a clearer picture in my head of what I want this to look like and how I am going to go about it. So, some of these thoughts to follow......... next year.