Nice Bucket Challenge - Two New Tricks!

Today Millie and I filmed our Nice Bucket Challenge! It could be any trick with a bucket so as Millie can already stand on a bucket, I decided to get her to spin on it! She picked this up quickly! She also learnt to fetch a toy and put it in the bucket! 

This is our challenge: http://youtu.be/l7hkWRXEGi8

Skateboarding and Scootering!

It was a while ago we last took the scooter to the doctors car park, so today we decided we would before it gets too hot! I also have a trolley now so was able to put the scooter and the skateboard in there and take both!

Millie was fantastic and went really fast on both the scooter and skateboard. She even managed to steer the skateboard a bit! As far as she's concerned, the faster the better! She nearly ran me over at one point!

I managed to get a video of each!

Skateboarding

http://youtu.be/cGd2aqwQVog

Scootering

http://youtu.be/gYKSW-QrByU

Also, we were having bread rolls and one of the bits of dough dropped on the floor! Millie took the opportunity to grab it and is really enjoying playing with it!

Some Fun Tricks and a New Toy!

Millie and I haven't done anything the last few days as we've been too busy!

We did some tricks outside today! Millie went skateboarding and we also did some other tricks! Millie had a great time and loved showing off! She was really eager to do things as we haven't done any training for a few days. 

I managed to get a couple of photos of Millie on her skateboard!

Also, I got Millie a new toy, Hoggy! She hasn't left him alone and is loving playing with him!

Good Citizen Gold Test!

We passed the Kennel Club Good Citizen Gold award! 

We've been practising all day and Millie was amazing! We had to do the road walk first with the Silver people and Millie was very good, despite the dog in front of her messing around! She did a very good A-Recall and then had to walk past another dog and go outside. The next was the hardest, stop the dog! Millie did stop but the examiner was holding her collar so she came to me quicker and couldn't stop in time! We had one more try and the examiner didn't hold Millie so she did it! She did the rest brilliantly, although the examination wasn't perfect it was still acceptable!

I didn't think she would pass but she was amazing and everyone at the club was really pleased the did it too!

Before she was a Gold good citizen, she found another flower pot with a plant in and ran off with it! Somehow I don't think the Gold certificate will make her stop that...!

Tricks and Practising for the Test!

Yesterday I started to teach Millie how to play the piano! She really enjoyed it and did well!

This morning, we went in the garden. Millie found a tomato in the pot with the tomato plant. She picked it up and started playing with it! She then barked at it and ate it! Once she ate it, she had nothing to run off with, so went for one of her favourites, a flower pot! This flower pot had soil in it and a dried up flower. It didn't bother Millie because she tipped it upside down and tipped the soil out! The flower pot then got the normal Millie treatment!

We also did some more tricks for the next Geek award. Millie also did these very well!

We've also been doing some practise for out Gold test tomorrow. Millie did it perfectly but whether the examiner will say that or not, who knows! 

More training and new tricks!

Today Millie and I did some more training. The first lot we did was by the garages. This was to practise the 'stop' exercise for the Gold award. Millie did this very well. We couldn't go out there to do recalls and not take the skateboard do we did that and a few other things too!

After this, I filmed the last two tricks - fetch your lead and crawl - for the trick dog award we are applying for. Millie did these well and the video is now sent off, so hopefully we will hear back soon! 

I then taught Millie to open and close the door and to pull my socks off! She grasped all this very quickly and they too are now ready to film for the next Dog Trick Geek award!

Millie's had quite a busy day really and is now asleep on the sofa! 

Dog Training Started Again!

Millie didn't do much in the day today as she was having a rest from the weekend! She did learn to fetch her lead though, which was good!

She also nearly made me drop a box of eggs everywhere! We were coming back from Joe's house and I was holding lots of things, including the eggs. I had Millie with me who decided to pull! Something Millie has always done, is recognise the sound a Corsa engine makes. As I struggled around the corner, a man got in a Corsa and turned the engine on! This made Millie pull backwards! We got home in the end, with all the eggs in one piece!

It was also the first dog training after the Summer. Because of this, Millie was a bit more hyper than usual! She barked a bit and didn't want to wait in the recalls! She did do everything ok. We will have to do lots of practising at home as it's the Good Citizen Dog Scheme Gold award next week! I'm not expecting to pass because the examiner's quite strict! We will have a go and see what happens!