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abirddogmoment · 4 months

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Thinking about my Rory goals again and its been a minute since I updated on her progress so here are some thoughts:

Tomorrow will be seven weeks of Rory! I've been working really hard to convince her to be a good citizen and we've had some big successes:

She is fully crate trained, very rarely if ever makes noise in her crate.

She is housetrained and fully understands how to ask to go outside. Only one accident since I've brought her home!

She sleeps really well and will put herself back to sleep if I'm not ready to get up (provided she doesn't have to go outside).

She can maintain her path walking past people on the sidewalk, some wiggles and staring but no attempts to jump on them.

She has never met a stranger and was excited to meet her vet, groomer, misc trainers, etc.

She is neutral to excited around strange dogs of all shapes, sizes, and behaviours.

She rarely alarm barks and her demand barking is way down.

She's eating reasonably consistently and understands how to ask for food.

She's a really cool dog and has a lot of potential. I've been thinking a lot about our goals for competition. I got her "as a friend to dabble with" so there's a tiny bit of pressure to perform, but not much.

I want to get her CKC CH since I've never had a show prospect and we have so many local shows (and lots of competition locally in the breed).

I want to run puppy stakes to learn more about CKC pointing field trials.

I want to work through the trick dog program as something easy and low pressure to do while she grows up.

So no huge goals for her first year or two. As for upcoming outings:

Confo debut at two semi-local shows at the end of March and beginning of April.

Field trial at the beginning of May (if they hold puppy stakes).

Big road trip at the end of May.

Local shows in June and August if we're feeling it.

So anyway, we have some plans but mostly we're just chilling. She's a cool little dog and I'm trying to keep the pressure off her.

Can't wait for the spring and summer though, it'll be so fun to get her out! 💜

#about aurora #rory borealis #this photo is from her bird dog intro a few weeks ago #this weekend she gets to go swimming #and then weve got another bird dog intro in a couple weeks #shes doing really good with everything #shes a cool little dog #bird dog training

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