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Wordless Wednesday - photoshoot in Old Town

I can't do it all without words. Kiefer was the best dog in the city. Heeled, listened cues, no reactivity - absolutely adorable pup!

Potoshoot with Estonian horse and pet photographer Kersti Kalberg!
 Her webpage: 500 Photoshoots of Horses

Wordless Wednesday #9

                            Someone is never, ever allowed on the couch!

If i wont move even if they try to get me off, maybe they will think that i am a couch pillow!

Wordless Wednesday #8

As a reactive dog, i need to choose my friends very carefully. This one was very good choice!

Our positive training success

As you all know, Kiefer is reactive to other dogs and due his lack of earlier training we are having hard times to deal with reactivity and training basic obedience.
 But we have positively progressed!

In this week i saw much more progress in obedience and tiny steps in reactivity.

We have made associations that barking dogs behind the fences mean minced meat and contact with me means good kibble (he loves his training kibble, it's different than daily kibble)

 Also we have seen about 5 dogs. One walked pass us, we stayed on the edge of the road and Kiefer ate minced meat all the time.
 2 dogs he saw in appropriate distance so he sat and ate. No reaction. Yes, he was still annoyed but did not react badly.
 One dog walked behind us about 20 m away and Kiefer was able to look at me (or my hand)

At home, where we have less distractions he has learned his paw targeting quite well and manages to do figure 8 between my legs without hand-luring.

And our most biggest victory - Kiefer goes out in the dark! It took about 1 year to overcome his fear of evenings! About 22.30 i say, Kiefer let's go out and he comes on first call!!!
 This is my first and biggest winning!
I want to learn more about dogs, how dog thinks, how to train dogs positively so i ordered 5 books: 1. Emma Parsons - Click to Calm
 2. Karen Pryor - Reaching the animals mind
 3. Emma Parsons - Teaching the Reactive Dog Class: Leading the Journey from Reactivity to the Reliability
 4. Pat Miller - The Power of Positive Dog Training
 5. Patricia McConnell - The other end of the leash

Hope to receive them soon and gather more information and wisdom to be a good positive human to my dog.
 

February is Responsible Pet Owners Month. Thank You Cascadian Nomads and Tenacious Little Terrier for this Positive Pet Training Blog Hop .

Wordless Wednesday #7

I was wordless! Kiefer is smart and progressing! :)

Long walks in the snow - super :)

Wordless Wednesday #6

Dear friends! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!!

Kiefer wishes Happy Holidays to all our friends!

Santa Paws will be generous this year

Black and white sunday

This is my only video of training Kiefer at home. Thanks to lack of daylight i can't make good videos at winter but at 2015 i will try to make more when the spring is again :)

 And we made some black and white pictures also. When the snow comes back, i hope the pictures will be a bit brighter :)

Thank You Nola and Sugar for hosting this BW Blog Hop!

Sepia Saturday

And this is a video of us, trying to learn training :) Sry for the dizziness, i aint friends with the camera yet.

Thank You, Ruckus The Eskie for the blog hop!!

Wordless Wednesday #5

More pictures! Nah, i'm gonna sleep a bit

Wheres that kibble going?

Boooring! Lets run 

Why to go in if i can hop on?

Thanks for hopping!

Black and White sunday

At first i would love to share a beautiful video again. Border Collies are amazing :)

And of course my favourite black and white pictures

Teenage Kiefer

A happy dog with his adventscalendar

Have a nice sunday!

Thank you Nola and Sugar for hosting this awesome hop!

#SepiaSaturday We are making progress!

For the last few days i am having a really good time with Kiefer!
 We made a beautiful photo of our walking buddy with Kiefer (they can't be more close because then Kiefer is over his treshold) and yesterday i had a great walk with seeing six different dogs and Kiefer was not lunging and barking like he mostly does.
 I know i was also in a good state of mind so i think my own behaviour afecceted Kiefer's behaviour also.
 Is there anyone else struggling with a dog-reactive dog?
 I would love to hear from you and read your blogs :)

Have a nice saturday! And thank You for hopping by and commenting!

Sepia Saturday

Hosted by Ruckus the Eskie & Earl's World

Wordless wednesday #4

Thank You for hopping and commenting!

Favorite video and BW Sunday

Hello!

How are you all?

I really do love watching cute dog videos on the internet and today i will show You two of them.

First is dog-alphabet. Look how cutely they perform everything!

And second - lovely golden who just can't resist all the goodies!

Enjoy! 

Continues after videos...

I have accepted a challenge where in 5 days i have to make 5 Black and white pictures. I will show you 3 of them. First two are beautiful Estonian places and the third i will upload at evening. Third will be doggie related.
 Also i have updated Kiefers FB page with cute puppy pictures! Feel free to see them HERE

Theatre "Estonia" and christmas lights

Pirita Klooster (monastery)

And this is our toy wash day :-D

This is a Blog Hop from NOLA  and SUGAR
THANK YOU!

FitDog Friday

Kiefer is a very active dog. At summer we have always alot of time to excercise whole day.
 Here is, what he loves most and i am so happy, that i can offer him that much excercise at summer vacation.

Swimming in the big sea

Parkouring at the big stones

More swimming in the sea

Running wild

Running with birds

Almost wordless wednesday

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is my Wordless Wednesday this time, featuring our whole week in pictures. I am ill and can't get out of bed so please forgive that i haven't written much. Kiefer is ok and happy. He gets less excercise right now and also we did not go to training class but if the virus leaves me, we will have alot of fun again :)
 All my pictures are taken with an old telephone but i think, they still have some quality :) Especially for me.
 Like You see, we have snow already!

Greets to your pets!

Playing with tennis ball

Happy go lucky!

Chasing different pawprints

Our floor is ready, we can do matwork!

Connected with his fav toy