Thursday, March 5, 2009

Flanks, flanks and more flanking

It has been much warmer here the past couple of days. It reached 44 degrees here today with no wind this afternoon. So, obviously we have been out working dogs the past couple of days. They are all rusty from not being able to work much this winter, other than holding sheep off of the feeders. So, I have been working all three of mine on flanking exercises to get them to free up on their flanks again. I can also only do so much in the sense of outruns due to snow, slush and water. Cash was working really nice and was taking some of my inside flank commands while working on driving. Corbie, for whatever reason, wasn't taking her inside flanks. This is odd as she is usually better at that than Cash. Cash is usually so strong eyed and such a line dog that he doesn't want to flank while driving. Go figure! So, for now we will work on cleaning up flanks again. Jag wants to go back to slicing his away inside flanks. One extreme or the other with him sometimes. So, it's back to flanking exercises for him too. Unfortunately due to the snow piled up by all of our fences I can't do any of the exercises with any of them with me up against the fence. So, we will just have to make due with however we can do the exercises.

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