When Leave Means Leave

At The End of The Rainbow

Eye to Eye Contact

Magical Morning

The sun rises from behind Kinnoull and lifts the mist on the golden North Inch. Seiben becomes part of this other world.

Zak George Live Chat from 25th October 2010

Really, in a way, how Ruskin was interacted with from 1991 and how Seiben is treated now.

Joining the You Tube Generation

At last we have joined the You Tube generation with a short uploaded clip. More to do it for the first time and see how it was done. Seiben catching a disc on the North Inch Perth.  That the moon rising above the River Tay.

A new experience, throwing a disc while looking at the view finder!

A ‘Working’ Bearded Collie

Well it was Seiben’s first day out at work with me. We had to do some painting at a steading conversion in Kinross. What are you going to do with Seiben I was asked? Tie him up, leave him in a car? We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it I replied.

Well Seiben could always sleep in the kitchen

 

or he could keep an eye on me

always time for a dinner time walk, but still making sure I get back on time

My Dog

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.  author unknown

From K9 Disc Thrills

(bow) WOW says Seiben

Canine world record catch 95.6 metres

Think they are using a Hyperflite Competition Standard disc. Time to find out about importing from the US then clearing a stretch of the North Inch, says Seiben.

Walk in the Park

Thanks to everyone who stops and comes over to see Seiben and myself on our travels. The attention and encouragement is really helping Seiben to acclimatise to city living.

He is proving a talented Frisbee dog. Though he brought his Frisbee when he came to stay and made a point of wanting to take it out with us, it wasn’t apparent how deep his passion ran for the sport. Thanks to all the other dogs who come over to watch and have a go with him. It is all  building up his confidence.

One of his problems when he came was pulling like a mad thing while on the lead. This is something we have been working on over the last couple of weeks. And is improving very markedly. But it is a slow calm process to change a behaviour which was so ingrained. So thanks to Zak George.

Another problem I was told Seiben had was barking at solitary figure walking towards him. On the first Sunday we were out together this was noticeable (as well as the pulling). Having been caught on a bridge with someone walking towards us I had to try some distraction technique to prevent this.

We speeded up our walking pace and Seiben didn’t bark. Now I put this down at the time to taking Seiben out of his barking phase, giving him a different set of circumstances to think about. Having watched this video by Emily Larlham, she makes the connection between the aroused state caused by the constant pulling and barking and lunging at people and other dogs.

 

At no point in Seiben’s training has dominance, punishment or raised voice been used. The most he gets in a negative way is a quite no, ah ah or calm naughty boy. These are used mainly as a part of a distraction. Immediately we try then to put him into a positive reinforcement for doing the behaviour we both want to aspire to.