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TONI DAWKINS October 13th & 14th 2007 Toni came back to visit us again on the dates above. Again she made us all work hard but her smile and enthusiasm kept us going. Thanks Toni AGAIN for a wonderful day. Gem x Here is a short video on some handling. Starring Naomi and Flea and Karen and Kes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzVMm1tYFYg Sunday 14th October 2007 report on training session with Toni Dawkins.
Well the long awaited return of one of the countries finest handlers, came to visit us again today and we were not disappointed. We were in
the final session so I will report on this. After a long weekend of training
Toni was still in good form when she had to train us for three hours. After a
brief visit to the pub for lunch we set off for the venue, Toni changed a few
things and we started, the group consisted of our normal Wednesday group (less a
few) plus two others, oh dear would they cope with us and our shouting at each
other, well they did and they fitted in very well, all the dogs were very much
on the same level except Janet with her young dog who works grade 6 but
hopefully we did not hold her back too much. We started with basic straight
lines and all had the same comments we must still drive them on, oh dear thought
me and Naomi, skate and flea didn’t really need to be driven on but after Toni
explained about the more excited they are at training and get it right when they
enter the show ring they should be just fine. She advised, not told us, that the
harder things were at training the easier things would seem at a show,, which I
suppose when you look at it is very correct. Anyway we moved on to snakes and
pull throughs, yuk we all have problems with these in one way or another but I
must say that they did
To summarise the afternoon session, it was fun hard work and informative for everyone, I enjoyed it very much and I think everyone else did as well, we all left still smiling so that was a good sign. I personally would like to thank Gem and Nic for organising it and also a huge thank you to Toni for coming to us again and spending time trying to give advice and help with any little problems, I can’t wait for the next one. Thanks Toni and Nic and Gem. Oh and thanks to skate for being a good boy as well it did help. Yvette
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cope extremely well, Karen has some footage and I am sure she will allow gem to
download it so you can see. After quite an intensive jump session we moved to
the contacts, although Toni is a small sweet looking thing you should not be
fooled, she had some evil little giggles as she made us do some of our
exercises. The contact we concentrated on was the dog-walk, we did it in our
normal way, then we had to hang back, great for me, we then had to recall over
the equipment, not good skate didn’t like this much like a few of the others oh
and then little miss evil really came in to her own, she put a tunnel at the end
of the dog walk and we still had to get our position without the dog going in
the tunnel, hahahaha it was fun, a little bit of a brag here as skate actually
held his position all be it his nose was in the tunnel as it was so close but
he still held it. Toni suggested we practice more of all this so the dogs get
used to every eventuality We then moved on to the weaves and odd angles on to
them, we have not really done much weave training recently and a few of us did
actually have problems with the weaves but nothing that can’t be sorted. At the
end of a hard but fun three hours we did a round, oh o.k. I got called lazy
again we all know I am but I had really had enough and all the dogs were getting
very tired they had lost all their oomph but they had had a long session.