Belated Happy Birthday to Jed and his brothers and sisters (sorry its late been busy!). This is Jed with his Safety Stick. It was invented by a lady who's Jack Russel was pierced and injured by a stick, Jed loves it.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Belated Happy Birthday to the Eternals
Belated Happy Birthday to Jed and his brothers and sisters (sorry its late been busy!). This is Jed with his Safety Stick. It was invented by a lady who's Jack Russel was pierced and injured by a stick, Jed loves it.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Happy Birthday Eternals
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Friday, 24 December 2010
Merry Christmas
Gertie wishes all her Blitzan family- and anyone who knows her- a merry christmas and a happy and successful new year
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Monday, 20 December 2010
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Ziggy's First Season
Ziggy has come into season at 10 months exactly; I'd be interested to know if any of her sisters have been in season already. So far she seems pretty unfazed, but we are only into the first few days. I'm somewhat concerned about being able to exercise her next week since we will be in London for Christmas and there are so many dogs in park. If anyone has any suggestions of how to exercise without going out I'd love to hear them!
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Hello for the Blitzan home
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LEAHS LAST LITTER
The 'Leah Litter' and my beautiful Diva, (Sh Ch Blitzan Leahs Stunner JW) - 7 Years old today, can't believe she is a Veteran already, where does the time go?
Morning everyone, Life is as busy as ever so excuse my prolonged absence. Well we have been snowed up for a while, not anywhere as bad up people 'up North' but bad enough, that's the trouble with living down back lanes and up high! The first pictures were taken yesterday, yep freezing fog, and my god it was freezing. Put it this way, Diva came out the door for a walk and decided it was just too cold so she turned around, ran back in and straight in her bed by the fire, she hasn't wanted a walk for the last couple of days and only nips out for the shortest of time when very desperate! Diva by name and all that!!!
These pics were taken a week ago when the snow first fell. Tetra loves it and does wonderful snow angels!!!
Mr Darcy plots his next move!
Bree- Well I would make a joke about being a Munster cross Lizard, but feel her tongue troubles have a lot to do with getting it stuck on ice!!! Not been the same since!!
Here come the girls....
My Yetti - Maddie
Stuck, Maddie comes to an abrupt halt!!
I hope you have all been keeping warm and not too stuck in the snow.
To all those waiting for Prima, I'm afraid she's not in season yet, but sure it wont be long, all the signs are there!!!! I will let you all know as soon as she begins her season.
It seems I have not been getting emails through, some come but also some don't seem to, so if you have emailed me and not received a reply please give me a shout again as I always reply even if it takes a day or two to get back to you I will always reply, so if I haven't please try again. Thanks.
Gorgeous pictures on here and loving the help Peter provides, such a great help Pete you are so good to us all xxxx
Monday, 6 December 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Hi Penny, If you want to contact me my e-mail is: moorgun@ntlworld.com
I'm sure we can arrange something to suit,
Peter
I'm sure we can arrange something to suit,
Peter
training
Hi Peter,
I'm still very interested in training, would it be possible to have more details about individual work with you ? I think this blog is has probably had enough of the subject by now !! Can I get in touch with you somehow?
Many Thanks.
I'm still very interested in training, would it be possible to have more details about individual work with you ? I think this blog is has probably had enough of the subject by now !! Can I get in touch with you somehow?
Many Thanks.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Just catching up.
Congratulations to Sharon, Jim & Louis on passing the KC Gold Award, very well done, a great achievement.
Some very interesting reading on training, I have enjoyed all the posts.
Great picture from Canada a fantastic view, and what a wonderful vantage point to take the picture from.
Hope everyone out there is enjoying their Munsterlanders, we have had quite a lot of rain recently so back to all the mud, Oh What Joy !!!! Has been fine today, but they still managed to find plenty of muddy puddles.
Congratulations to Sharon, Jim & Louis on passing the KC Gold Award, very well done, a great achievement.
Some very interesting reading on training, I have enjoyed all the posts.
Great picture from Canada a fantastic view, and what a wonderful vantage point to take the picture from.
Hope everyone out there is enjoying their Munsterlanders, we have had quite a lot of rain recently so back to all the mud, Oh What Joy !!!! Has been fine today, but they still managed to find plenty of muddy puddles.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Munsters of Canada
I havent been on the blog for a long, long time. Just like to say hello, and post a picture of Duke and Duchess. Duke is son of Logi and Duchess is Daughter of Leah, Elly May is the Springer. This was taken on a hike I took to the top of the mountain we live on in Kelwona, British Columbia Canada.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Hi Peter,
Again, many thanks. I would certainly be interested in hands on education, individually or in a group.Would anyone else like to get involved ?
Whereabouts in the south could it happen, Karen, would you be interested - are you anywhere near the Wiltshire border ?
I'm keen to get Lola trained well enough before the next shooting season, so that I can take her out with some confidence, I'm keen to do what I can for her, myself and the shoot !!
Should we try to get something going via this website ? Could we have some idea of costs etc ?
Happy to give you my home contact details if I'm allowed to here.
Again, many thanks. I would certainly be interested in hands on education, individually or in a group.Would anyone else like to get involved ?
Whereabouts in the south could it happen, Karen, would you be interested - are you anywhere near the Wiltshire border ?
I'm keen to get Lola trained well enough before the next shooting season, so that I can take her out with some confidence, I'm keen to do what I can for her, myself and the shoot !!
Should we try to get something going via this website ? Could we have some idea of costs etc ?
Happy to give you my home contact details if I'm allowed to here.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Hi Karen & Penny,
I don't know Nick Gregory, but I do know of Hamptworth Estate as I was down there a few weeks ago doing a KC Seminar with the HPRFTA. Whilst I am always available to help with training, I have become slightly sceptical at those wishing to train. In the past there were always voices complaining at the `lack of training'. After several years of listening to this, through the Club and on several blogs etc. I made arrangements using the Swifthouse training ground in Oxford to put on some training sessions, whilst a few took up the opportunity, these were the minority of those that did the complaining, and I was not surprised at the variety of excuses that were forthcoming as to why these people could not make it! I concluded that talking about training from the comfort of your own keyboard is alot different than getting arses into cars and actually make the effort to do it!
Presently I am `buddying' a couple of hprs and their owners, a Britany and a Weim, it does mean I get to see their dogs on their own ground, so I get to see the real problems with all the trimmings, and not just what the owners `think' are the problems. I must say I like this rather than formal group training sessions as its tailor made to the handler and the dog, and they can learn to communicate better with their dog ( handler) as I'm there to `translate', and often this is at the root of most problems. The disadvantage is of course its not cheaper than sharing the cost as a group, but then you may have to have several group sessions before you get to `your' problem! Anyway if a group of you want to get together and do the organising I'm happy to share my know how.
Penny, It sounds like the dog has only a fragile grasp of the sit and you've moved a little too fast before the dog has confidence in the signal. Its all about perception, to you sit means sit, but to the dog it hears the sound and associates it with sit by you, as in teaching the sit you were probably always next to it. Thinking about it, when my puppies are being taught the sit I'm nearly always facing them, which is why this is an easier transition to `distant sits', but I digress!
Rather than trying to achieve distant sits I would concentrate on teaching the dog sit/stay. The dog can gain confidence in the sit by heel ( which is her translation of your sit command) and you can expand it by moving away from the dog whilst its sat. This is also good at getting the raised hand signal for sit into the dogs mind eye, as it can be used to `hold' the dog on the sit as you move away, ( or if the dog breaks the sit, keeping it raised as you move back towards the dog to replace it in the sit, will associate the hand signal to the act of sitting).
There is a lot said in dog training circles about training the dog in ever more demanding environments to further the dogs learning. This is indeed true, but many forget that the dogs perception of your position when giving instructions may also change their understanding of those instructions. The sit/stay is often over looked in this respect as by moving around the dog and at different distances you can both broaden and strengthen various signals to a learned instruction and in so doing build up a young dogs confidence.
You will find that a re occurring theme in my methods of training involve in always looking for positives that can be achieved out of negatives, and also planting seeds in training for something in the future whilst training something in the present.
Remember when teaching a new signal for an action always put the new signal in front of the established signal. i.e. establish the voice `sit'
show the hand signal then say sit
blow the whistle ( hand signal) then say sit
In advance training game flushing becomes the sit signal, which is why the stop whistle needs to be good so that this can be achieved.
Peter
I don't know Nick Gregory, but I do know of Hamptworth Estate as I was down there a few weeks ago doing a KC Seminar with the HPRFTA. Whilst I am always available to help with training, I have become slightly sceptical at those wishing to train. In the past there were always voices complaining at the `lack of training'. After several years of listening to this, through the Club and on several blogs etc. I made arrangements using the Swifthouse training ground in Oxford to put on some training sessions, whilst a few took up the opportunity, these were the minority of those that did the complaining, and I was not surprised at the variety of excuses that were forthcoming as to why these people could not make it! I concluded that talking about training from the comfort of your own keyboard is alot different than getting arses into cars and actually make the effort to do it!
Presently I am `buddying' a couple of hprs and their owners, a Britany and a Weim, it does mean I get to see their dogs on their own ground, so I get to see the real problems with all the trimmings, and not just what the owners `think' are the problems. I must say I like this rather than formal group training sessions as its tailor made to the handler and the dog, and they can learn to communicate better with their dog ( handler) as I'm there to `translate', and often this is at the root of most problems. The disadvantage is of course its not cheaper than sharing the cost as a group, but then you may have to have several group sessions before you get to `your' problem! Anyway if a group of you want to get together and do the organising I'm happy to share my know how.
Penny, It sounds like the dog has only a fragile grasp of the sit and you've moved a little too fast before the dog has confidence in the signal. Its all about perception, to you sit means sit, but to the dog it hears the sound and associates it with sit by you, as in teaching the sit you were probably always next to it. Thinking about it, when my puppies are being taught the sit I'm nearly always facing them, which is why this is an easier transition to `distant sits', but I digress!
Rather than trying to achieve distant sits I would concentrate on teaching the dog sit/stay. The dog can gain confidence in the sit by heel ( which is her translation of your sit command) and you can expand it by moving away from the dog whilst its sat. This is also good at getting the raised hand signal for sit into the dogs mind eye, as it can be used to `hold' the dog on the sit as you move away, ( or if the dog breaks the sit, keeping it raised as you move back towards the dog to replace it in the sit, will associate the hand signal to the act of sitting).
There is a lot said in dog training circles about training the dog in ever more demanding environments to further the dogs learning. This is indeed true, but many forget that the dogs perception of your position when giving instructions may also change their understanding of those instructions. The sit/stay is often over looked in this respect as by moving around the dog and at different distances you can both broaden and strengthen various signals to a learned instruction and in so doing build up a young dogs confidence.
You will find that a re occurring theme in my methods of training involve in always looking for positives that can be achieved out of negatives, and also planting seeds in training for something in the future whilst training something in the present.
Remember when teaching a new signal for an action always put the new signal in front of the established signal. i.e. establish the voice `sit'
show the hand signal then say sit
blow the whistle ( hand signal) then say sit
In advance training game flushing becomes the sit signal, which is why the stop whistle needs to be good so that this can be achieved.
Peter
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