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Yes, it's time again for another puppy video! I got several really cute ideas for what to call this series from Sara, Lian, and Ludo - thanks! - and just decided to go with Sara's "puppyhood tales."It's funny because when I thought about doing this, mom assured me that we had lots of video of me when I was growing up. But now that we started looking at it, it's true we have quite a bit of video

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It is still a t-day here in Ohio (just barely) and I wanted to post a video of some of my tricks just to show you that we are still working on some of them and learning some new ones and also getting better at some old ones! (run on sentence)Oh and by the way, I was a good boy at class last night and didn't sniff once during the sequences we practiced! Mom was very happy with that!Gotta zoom!Ricky

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Last Monday we went for a walk at another one of my favorite parks! There is a pet trail that goes through the woods and down to a creek. There was no one else there so we had the whole place to ourselves! We couldn't have asked for a nicer day!When we set out I had to encourage mom and dad to get going - they are so slow sometimes! See the big sycamore tree leaves on the ground?The sky was blue

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So after all our hard work at making agility fun and fast, I went to class last night and poked around and sniffed every darn leaf on the floor because I was SURE it was food. I kind of did the agility sequences but I was very distracted. Mom tried not to let me know, but I could tell she was frustrated and also disappointed in me. She wants to know how long it's going to take before I am

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Mom and I want to start something new - we have been going back and watching some of my puppy videos and editing them into smaller clips - and we want to share them with you from time to time when nothing else terribly exciting is going on. But we need a name for this - maybe Sara (she comes up with stuff all the time like "then and now" or "everyday life series") or Ludo (who of course came up

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Lately when we practice agility in the backyard it's for fun and speed! Mom puts out my food target for the first few jumps and then she takes it away. I know I still look slow in the video, but I swear I am running faster (if you were here, you would see it!).Gotta zoom!Ricky

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The trees in our neighborhood are absolutely gorgeous this year! So mom brought her camera along when we went for our walk this morning - here are our attempts at trying to get photos of the beautiful fall colors right outside our door!The photos just don't do it all justice - every where you look there is another spectacular display. Unfortunately it doesn't last long. Yesterday's wind brought a

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I had a good time visiting my cousin Wilson on Wednesday and Thursday of this week! Mom and I left early and drove two hours to Wilson's house. We wanted to get there early to make the most of the day - the weather was beautiful - sunny and 70. After all the cold and rain, we were all really happy to be outside!First of all aunt Laura took us to a new park with some very good trails that go

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Mom and dad took me to my favorite metro park yesterday for a walk and a chance to see some fall foliage! The sky was blue and the sun was warm! Don't get too excited about these pictures though. They're not very good!Tomorrow I am going to visit my cousin Wilson! I saw him a few times over the summer when he was at grandma and grandpa's, but I haven't been to his house in a long time. I don't

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We had a great day yesterday! Grandma got here about 7:30 and we left. It only took a little over an hour to get to the trial site - not a bad drive at all. Of course, grandma and mom talked the whole way and kept me awake! This trial was held at a fieldhouse/fitness center. The standard ring was in one room and the jumpers ring was in another (so it made for a quieter atmosphere). I ran my Open

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What happened to October - blue skies, pretty leaves, indian summer, dry air? We have skipped October this year and gone straight to November - rainy, cold, windy, gray. I don't mind it that much although we don't go outside like we used to. But mom is whining about the bad weather all day long!Last night we went to our Wednesday agility class (we missed last week because mom had to rehearse

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Here I am when I was young and barky (now I'm older and barky)!Sorry we haven't been posting but we will soon! Lack of inspiration, I guess.....Gotta zoom!Ricky

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These days mom has really been pondering the question of how to make me a faster agility dog. After my slow starts at our last trial and then a pretty slow and ho-hum class last Wednesday, mom is looking for advice! Seems like the magic meatballs are not so magic any more. Don't get me wrong - I still like them! But they don't always motivate me. I am super fast when mom gets me to lose my mind.

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After skipping tRicky T-Day last week and then only posting someone else's trick video the week before that, we felt a lot of pressure to post a trick this week!! LOL! So we made a very quick video this morning showing the beginnings of my new trick - stand in the corner! We were inspired to learn this from Dazzle's corner trick (video we posted two weeks ago) and then we also saw Blue over at

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We ran two runs today in the Columbus All Breed Training Club Agility Trial held nearby at a Sports Barn (usually the building is used for soccer so the surface is artificial grass carpet). It was our first time competing somewhere other than the horse barn. So new place, new surface. Mom decided that she wanted me to get used to spending some time in my crate at trials, so my friend/trainer Deb

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On Friday mom and dad took me hiking in Hocking Hills State Park! We had been there before but not yet this summer and it was a perfect day weather-wise so we all decided to go! We took our lunch and had a picnic in the primitive campground. Then we went to a place called Cedar Falls and hiked and hiked! Our photos didn't turn out too great - the lighting is difficult and we only had mom's cheap

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The weather has been so nice here that we are just practicing agility and not training tricks much. We have worked on the lift back leg trick a little, and we run through most of the tricks I know about every other day. We also try them in new places - at the training building, at the park, etc. I guess when the weather gets bad (winter is coming all too soon), we'll have lots more time for

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Sara blogged about her class with Oreo the other night and told us about the distance work they did and also about the puzzler that they worked on. She was nice enough to include the course maps, so today we printed them off and tried to set them up in our backyard. Each had to be modified a little to fit, but we think we got the general idea. (Sara, Oreo and Misty also practiced the puzzler in

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We've been busy with agility practicing and not as much trick practicing. Mom is teaching me to lift my back leg up (she says we are going to call it "Are you a boy dog?" but we haven't gotten that far yet so I'm not supposed to know). We made a short video to show you my progress - watch and you'll see me lift my leg once really high without using the books!I am back in the novice competition

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I've had my dogwalk for a week now and I am loving it! On Sunday mom set up a little course with jumps, weaves, and tunnel/dogwalk discrimination. We made a video focused mostly on the dogwalk, so we did some stuff off-camera that you can't see and also edited the video a lot. Hope you enjoy it though and agree with me that I am making some dogwalk progress and my enthusiasm for it is affecting

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Last weekend when we were at grandpa and grandma's building the dogwalk, we took a little break and set up one jump, the chute, and six plunger weaves in the backyard to just have some fun!Hope you all are having a great last weekend of the summer!Gotta zoom!Ricky

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Guess what? We built a dogwalk!!! On Thursday morning mom and I met grandpa at a building supply store and we went in and got materials to start building my new dogwalk! We decided to build it using sawhorses as the base and 8ft. x 12in. boards as the planks. Luckily for us grandpa had some old sawhorses he wasn't going to use any more and we cut those down to fit. We spent most of the day on

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Mom and I just got home and look at what we found waiting on our doorstep! A package from Ludo!!! I was so excited and got mom to come right in and help me to open it!Smells good!Wow - look at the fun stuff inside - some yummy treats, a smiley face clicker (is mom going to introduce me to the clicker finally? I've heard a lot about click/treat!), and a puzzle toy called "Hide a Squirrel"! (I

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Gotta zoom!Ricky

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I just found out that Ludo picked me to be this month's tRicky T-Day winner! Wow! We're so honored - thanks, Ludo! We made a couple videos of tricks a little while ago and haven't posted them until today. One is of snake - which I have known how to do for a long time, but mom thinks it's very relevant now considering I didn't do the weaves in my trial on Sunday. She just won't let me forget about

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