Aiden’s Training Day
Today was our first day of IPO training in almost a month. Our trainer, Mario, had been in Brazil with his GSD Caribou. Caribou is the same age as Aiden ( 2yrs, 4 months old) and already has earned his IPO-3. Mario and Caribou have just qualified for the WUSV World Championship in France in October.
Aiden tracking
After tracking it was on to obedience
During Mario’s absence we were able to keep training on our own in both tracking and obedience but Aiden’s favorite part of IPO had to wait until Mario came back.
I think Aiden was very happy to see Mario again!
During Aiden’s IPO-1 he slipped off the sleeve in the long bite. Since that time Mario has been using the smaller sleeve for long bite to build Aiden’s confidence up again.
Seems to be working
Mario and Caribou
Dylan was with us today but we did not get a picture of him at training. Two weeks ago Dylan and I helped at a Canine Good Citizen test. Dylan did a great job with the “meet and greet a dog” part of the test. Afterwards we went to the A&W and Dylan had his own hamburger! He enjoyed his evening out!
Lynda,
Aiden is looking nice. How did he take to the smaller sleeve? I like his nice tucked up position in his jumps. He’s focused and happy while heeling, too.
What to go, Dylan…Mr. Meet and Greet..now at the A&W. Lucky boy you get your own burger! 🙂
And, Congratulations to Mario and Caribou for making the World Team. That’s a pretty young dog for this. Hope he does well.
Terri
Nice to see Aiden “smiling” at Mario. Looks like he is happy to be back to work.
Aiden looks fantastic and very happy to be back at work! Send congrats to Mario, love the picture of him and Caribou…I bet they make a great team. I am sure Dylan is enjoying his ambassador duties to the fullest:-)
Super job, Team Aiden. You are very lucky to have a good trainer!
You are doing awesome Lynda!
love watching you train IPO with Aiden didn’t realize that is who you train with. I saw them(amrio and Caribou) at a local trial I went to watch and he was my favorite dog to watch as I loved how he went from drive to bite to control in obedience it was really fun to watch such a young dog do so well. We are still plugging along Pyro just turned 15 months and is doing well.