Have any of you tried agility?
Cassie and I do it - totally for fun - we are way to hopeless to enter anything more than a day of fooling around with club members.
We are more serious about ring craft.

Cash is just starting with agility. He is doing a 6 week introductory course and we are entering our fourth week. I am not happy with the trainer or equipment and I am trying to get us into classes with a renowned trainer, but she has a waiting list. We are on the list and I just hope that in 3 weeks, we will be able to start training with her.

We also started another obedience class today. I absolutely love Karis Bryen! She is the owner of Happy Dogs in Cape Town and is an animal behaviourist. She is the nicest person that I have met in a long time! Well, except for other Yorkie owners, of course!

I am also signing Cash up for flyball soon and he is starting a trick training class to help prepare him for possible advertisement and movie roles (he has an agent!!).

Total overload on training, but it is so fun to see them working so hard for you.

That is Excellent!
I am very happy for you and Cash. I am crossing finger, toes and paws for the both of you.
Another thing I would like to do but haven't yet been able to get to class is Canine Citizen.
I have heard much good about flyball.
Oooooh.... one thing for sure..... Cash has a very loving Mama!
Thumbs up to you!

Thanks. He is a joy to work with and is so focused on me during training. June is also enrolled in puppy classes and I intend to enrol in every class possible after that.

The thing is: Cash didn't do any classes for a year and I feel very bad about that now. He missed some crucial things, but we can work on it and we are! June is in a big dog class where she just seems so tiny, but she is keeping up. Most of the dogs are about 5 months old and June is only 13 weeks, but she is hanging in.

Oh, and I absolutely love clicker training! It makes everything so easy and if Cash hears the clicker (the twinkling sound it makes when I pick it up), he comes running! Too funny.

Oh, I forgot to ask, but what is ring craft?

Sorry - its training for conformation/breed showing.

Oh ok. I want to attend some shows this year. I always wanted to go to them, but finally decided that this is the year that I am going to start.

Btw, your yorkie in the avatar is beautiful!

LOL Thanks. The photo is of her just woken up from a good nights sleep - hence the crackers are all messed up!

Marilize do you maybe know where in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town I can
take Chloé for puppy classes?

She is well away with the potty training, so think the time is right now for all
the other stuff. I really need to teach her not to beg at dinner times while
we are busy eating. Are all Yorkies such beggars or do I just need to train
Chloé not to beg?

With regards to the begging, I taught Cash 'out'. This means that he needs to get his butt out of the room. So, if he is begging, I just ask him if he wants to go out. He distinguished this from being told to go out and he knows that it is a warning that if he continues to do it, he will have to go out. It always works.

I think it is natural for puppies to beg. You just need to be consistent and never give her anything. Every time she gets something by begging or while you are eating, the begging will get worse.

I was very strict with Cash and I am very strict with June, but with Cash, my ex-boyfriend's mom looked after him on some weekends and they gave him pieces of food off their plates. So, they taught him to beg, but he knows that he won't get anything from me, ever. He tries his luck with other people, but if it irritates the other person, I use the 'do you wanna go out' tactic and that works.

Cash had his first training in Vierlanden, Durbanville. I think the trainer's name is Claire and the company is Dogsense. She uses clicker training and the dogs are also introduced to agility. She has a course set up and the dogs are encouraged to get used to it. She is very professional and nice, although I like our current trainer much more.

She usually has a waiting list, but give her a go. A bit expensive, but totally worth it. It saved Cash and myself! And clicker training is the best method ever.

I can go on forever, but with clicker training June knew her name by 9 weeks, she can now sit, down, almost shake and stand on her hind legs.

If you need more info on the puppy school, let me know.