Remi and Belle are doing great as you can see from the picture it wont be long until she catches her momma in size. Remi has been a great pup and is coming along quite nicely. She is extremely smart!! She watches me work with Belle everyday and she has picked up on a lot of commands just by watching. It was pretty funny b/c last week I was working on whistle training Belle to sit on the whistle and never had Remi in mind. Now it doesnt matter where Remi is in the yard. When she hears that whistle, she sits! She has really started to pick up her desire to retrieve in the last week. Before, she would do it occasionally when she felt like it, but in the last week, she has shown a much greater desire. This is another thing I think she has learned from wathching. She really loves to retrieve out of the water, and her marking ability is even better than I think Belle's is. She is very observant of where the dummy is going, where as Belle is so high-strung she tries to beat the dummy to where it is going and sometimes doesn't see it land. Remi always knows where the dummy is whether its 100 yds across the pond or 50 feet in the weeds! However, just cuz she knows where it is, doesn't mean she goes and gets it. She'll run the bank of the pond and look at the dummy far off in the distance and whine, but she's kinda a chicken when it comes to getting it that far away. Or she'll jump in and swim about 10 feet out and then turn back b/c its too far away!! All in all she is coming along great, and I look forward to getting her on some Geese next month in South Dakota for the early Goose season. So if anyone is interested in tagging along, my brother lives up by Watertown and we'd be more than willing to take you along. I hope all is well with all of your pups, and I will be emailing everyone here in the near future to see how your pups are coming along and then I can update the blog once again!!Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Remi and Belle
Remi and Belle are doing great as you can see from the picture it wont be long until she catches her momma in size. Remi has been a great pup and is coming along quite nicely. She is extremely smart!! She watches me work with Belle everyday and she has picked up on a lot of commands just by watching. It was pretty funny b/c last week I was working on whistle training Belle to sit on the whistle and never had Remi in mind. Now it doesnt matter where Remi is in the yard. When she hears that whistle, she sits! She has really started to pick up her desire to retrieve in the last week. Before, she would do it occasionally when she felt like it, but in the last week, she has shown a much greater desire. This is another thing I think she has learned from wathching. She really loves to retrieve out of the water, and her marking ability is even better than I think Belle's is. She is very observant of where the dummy is going, where as Belle is so high-strung she tries to beat the dummy to where it is going and sometimes doesn't see it land. Remi always knows where the dummy is whether its 100 yds across the pond or 50 feet in the weeds! However, just cuz she knows where it is, doesn't mean she goes and gets it. She'll run the bank of the pond and look at the dummy far off in the distance and whine, but she's kinda a chicken when it comes to getting it that far away. Or she'll jump in and swim about 10 feet out and then turn back b/c its too far away!! All in all she is coming along great, and I look forward to getting her on some Geese next month in South Dakota for the early Goose season. So if anyone is interested in tagging along, my brother lives up by Watertown and we'd be more than willing to take you along. I hope all is well with all of your pups, and I will be emailing everyone here in the near future to see how your pups are coming along and then I can update the blog once again!!