Nancy Freedman-Smith, dog trainer and owner of Gooddogz Training, provides a place for dog owners to find positive training tips, canine-activities and places to visit along with the latest information on keeping your dog healthy and active. Nancy lives with her three young kids, Charlee and Finney the dogs, Yellow the parakeet and Tater-Tot the Hamster. Staying current, keeping fresh, and always learning new things is a must for Nancy and her profession because one thing that animals surely teach you is "the more you know, the more you know you don't know."
Freestyle-Back in the USSR
McKenzie of Scarborough picked flowers for all the dogs at yesterday's Rotti Stroll for Rescue. Jesse, a 12 year Border Collie basks in her kindness.
Both Jenny Yasi and I were glad that we had the chance to strut our stuff in the arena at the Rotti Rescue Stroll on Saturday. The weather people had called for 100 % chance of rain, which unfortunately scared a lot of would be attendees away. North East Rotti Rescue put on a wonderful rescue event and it is too bad that more people weren't there to see it. Next year people!
We found ourselves without a boom box and at the last minute rigged Jenny's daughter's IPod through the PA and we both chose new music. Even though I had played the Locomotion at least 100 times in my car and choreographed an entire routine in my head, we didn't do any of it! Instead I chose Back in the USSR from the Ipod. We winged the entire routine, without treats, and that is a lot in and of itself. My dog had tons of drive yesterday and she LOVES Freestyle.
We were far from technically accurate, but we did what we set out to do-had fun. I actually cut her two best big air moves due to what I hope is a mending muscle injury. When I attended a 2 day Carolyn Scott Freestyle seminar, she often repeated the two things a freestyle dog needs is attitude and attention. Happy to say, while we are still a bit of a wild freak show, we do have those two important aspects going for us.
Our next endeavor is to video tape a routine for the next upcoming video competition and I am going to try to title Charlee in Freestyle. I know a lot of you think that Canine Freestyle is a silly sport, but who among us dog lovers does't want to have fun with our dogs and make them happy? I have a dog with a lot of drive, brains, talent and tons of natural rhythm to boot. If you told me when I was in my 20's that one day I would be doing interruptive dance with my dog I would have laughed in your face.
As we exited the ring today, Louise Poppema, animal communicator and friend stopped to tell me that Charlee says:
"finally I have found something to do that is fun and that she loves".
Need I say more? Charlee has spoken.
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Good Dog Charlee!
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Nice improv girls! Can a break dance routine be in the future? Deb
Posted by deb dMay 21, 2007 09:09 AM
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