Maine Millers

Gotta love a dog that wants to eat ice. We had just come back from the beach and Scout was checking out the cooler to see if there were any goodies left. The only thing that he found was ice, of course that is a big time treat around here. He spent most of the winter eating snow and ice so why should the summer be any different? Sometimes you get lucky and get a mouth full 🙂

Our agility training is coming along fine. Last week we started to learn the weave poles. One of the hardest obstacles to learn, so our teacher recommended setting up a set at home. I chose to work with the slanted poles, also know as weave-a-matic poles. Idea being that the poles start laying on the ground and you gradually raise the angles until the poles are straight up. Here is a video of Scout working on the poles about half way up.

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The other methods are channel poles that are always vertical but spaced apart to make a channel and then start to close the channel over time, and the poles set up with the standard straight line. Hopefully he will get this all figured out over the next few weeks.

Sometimes you get to see something in a photograph that you kind of miss in real life. This photo was taken at Bowdoin College on the fields by Bill Kunitz last week. He caught Scout in what looks like a pretty happy place 🙂

Ok, I’ve been MIA for a few weeks. We got the agility bug and it’s a blast. Scout is doing very well at his jumps and if I can figure out a way to get some photos or video while training him in the yard I will post them. Next weekend I am planning to travel to an agility trial in Skowhegan, Maine to be just a spectator. We went last year and had fun but now that I understand things a little more I think I will get much more out of the trial. One thing that I have found it that agility can be expensive and after seeing a post on the tiptail blog for a contest to win a $30 gift certificate to doggonegood.com I figured I would enter. So, Cynthia, this is my entry to your contest and that $30 would go to good use at dogggonegood.com most likely in the agility catagory 😀

Don’t let your dog become a statistic! It’s not fair to an animal without an opposable thumb to be closed in a car even with the windows cracked.

You can download a pdf file of this poster here:

http://www.akc.org/pdfs/press_center/PSA_print/hot_car7×10.pdf