As always the girls impress me when day after day i ask so much of them! Just a short video clip of last weekends fun time after of course a day of work. More updates to follow!
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Not spring thats for sure
Woke up at 6am this morning (got to sleep in whooo hoooo) to a whoping 2 feet of snow. I couldn’t even open the back door, had to slip out and shovel off the back porch so the door could open and dogs could get out. Most didn’t want to go it was over their head but the shepherds couldn’t wait and took off clearing paths for the smaller dogs. Poor Fugly got lost in the snow banks!
With a state of emergeny in Broome County plans of in town training was demolished. Instead we played in the backyard, went on a short but tiring hike and did some small scent problems. The girls were still happy.
All in all not a bad hang around the house snow day. Man and we could see green grass yesterday…………..
I think i’m sore!!
Another good weekend done, and boy did this one leave us sore. We headed down to Tech city again in Kingston to work some building stuff. The snow that melted re froze as ice and it is rough out in the woods for the pups paws! The building work was great, it gives a good tight area to work quick refinds and some really weird scent pictures. I was able to run all the “pups” and younger dogs multiple times on problems of varying length depending on their skill level. The girls blew me away like usual. Eme worked some longer hard blind problems and even with other dogs off leash distracting her work still came back and indicated like she should.
Raina off working the scent
Raina did some great blind problems and it was amazing to watch her work the scent. She worked it perfectly with no bad habits in place, you could really tell where the scent was being carried and where it wasn’t. She had some great head pops into rooms and even the stairwell the subject was in.
I got my toy
One of the hardest problems of the day was up on the 4th floor which was essentially the roof. Due to the nature of the building as an old IBM plant the huge cooling fans and big metal fan rooms where a perfect creepy place to train the dogs. Eme worked a great blind problem up there and after climbing 4 huge flights of stairs (perfectly with no hesitation, mom on the other hand had some burning legs!) she was unfazed by the huge metal air ducts she had to search and the bomb shelter like rooms! Once she found the subject she gave a few whines before actually jumping into the airduct but then did a perfect refind, with her machine gun bark!
Dark dark room
It was also mr felix bleu’s first time doing building work and he did great. The boy was knocking down doors to get to his subject and we even incorporated a recall back to Kara during this training. From here on out his find will now end at kara after he has found his subject. She is working on his bark indication and we should be able to put that in pretty quickly. An amazing boy that felix bleu!
I LOVE my ball!!!
It was a great day and the dogs love the building work. Thank you tech city and we will be back!!!!
Tech City Kingston NY
A busy weekend for us all
Friday saturday and sunday brought the Petsmart adoption even where people get to meet and great all our wonderful animals and talk with volunteers about us and what we do. Thanks to a grant from Greg Biffle the nascar driver we were able to order some great tshirts, banner, new business cards, and other vital items to use at our fundraisers!!!
We managed to get some applications and do a few adoptions too! The ferrets where a hit and the dogs all did great. We were able to make some new friends and meet some potential new adopters!!
It was a wonderful weekend and we were able to help even more animals!! Thank you to the support from the community!!
In Loving Memory
This post is in loving memory of Camo, the aussie border collie mix we pulled from death from Darlington animal shelter in SC. Camo slipped his collar on his way up here to us and was hit and killed by a speeding train while on the run. Camo was a great dog and we were thrilled to be able to save his life, rehabilitate him and find him his forever home. Unfortunately this poor boy is now at the rainbow bridge with our other lost Life Long Tails dogs. Rest in Peace my little man who we never even got to meet.
Elite Instinct K9 Training 