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January, February, March - 2011
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January all had their Interceptor no improvement in the weather, decided to just shut
down until the middle of February
Feb 1st all had their Interceptor - very cold (below zero weather)
Feb 14th Dremeled all dogs nails
Feb 15th cleaned out Wood duck house, blocked any cracks with Gorilla tape Gunny's right
rear outside nail bleeding at the skin line (not bad).....crusty ice on top of deep
snow Feb 16-17th big thaw & snow disappearing rapidly
Feb 18-19th slippery ice with ruts - dangerous just walking
Feb 20th - rain & windy changing to ice and snow, wrote up preliminary training plan
Mar 2nd Interceptor for all four
Mar 3rd-6th hibernation mode
Mar 7th morning & afternoon - short OB sessions afternoon - conditioning....free run mud
Mar 8th repeat
Mar 9th morning - OB & short walking singles marking session
Mar 10th morning & afternoon - OB & run brief session of walking baseball
Mar 11th morning - OB & short marking session, afternoon run "remote drop drill"
Mar 12th afternoon - run double T (bumpers) & marking drill (with ducks)
Mar 13th afternoon - run Renegade casting drill
Mar 14th afternoon - set of short cold blinds (with ducks)
Mar 15-16 took two days off, drove to Little Rock, Arkansas to pick a Phowler boat and
ProDrive mud rig after buying a matching trailer at Illowa Marine = tough couple
of days on the road
Mar 17 sunny, temp around 60° - ran Gunny & Daisy at the square pond for exercise and
fun, threw a couple of remote sit, honoring, stand alone singles and each ran a 100
yard cold blind, slept well
Mar 18 cloudy, temp around 50° - ran Kooly & Taffey with the same routine as the two
younger dogs did yesterday came back later in the afternoon and exercised
Gunny & Daisy together
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note: official training starts April 1st (How appropriate is that?)
note: record floods predicted for the Mississippi River = need to move duck camp
trailer to even higher ground early next week
Mar 19 ran Gunny & Daisy at the Square pond DTA, a few stand alone singles & a cold
blind (exercise) used mallard Dokken Kooly & Taffey had the day off
Mar 20 day off – rained hard all day
Mar 21 sunny, forecast high 61° - exercised all four dogs + long walk
Mar 22 cooler, left to move trailer at Mississippi duck camp - record flood projection
Mar 23-28 six day forecasts clear & very cold = March is “going out like a lion” issue with
Gunny = missed physical cue (he bit me, discussed with Pete, tweaking a few
situations & mostly clarified the focus - awareness makes it manageable
Tuesday next ten days = 40’s and 50’s with four days of rain
Mar 29 forecast - sunny with a high of 45°….charge wingers modifications on boat finished
trip to Illowa Marine, Gunny went for a ride
Mar 30 cold & windy
Mar 31. 2011 ran Gunny - easy, fun marks = exercise, his routines are different = he now
stays in different crates which are in different areas, focus on desensitization of “his
areas to "protect & simple, on lead OB to the airing yard with the other three, paying
close attention to his body language so that it becomes a 24/7, “no big deal” habit
for me plus he will be “too busy to target” anyone, his bowl possessiveness was
eliminated by feeding him in several different “venues”, a variety of very uniquely
different bowls and pans, off the floor & out of hand, using various crates and in
different locations uses the same logic, for example – he trades places with Daisy’s
crate living room), there is a secluded crate in the patio (good view), he can train out
of two different crate/boxes off the van (again switching with Daisy), the same Daisy
crate “switch” is done at the duck camp trailer = seven different “dens”
update from February 18, 2011: the established routines have placed Gunny's
issues in remission - maintenance, expectations and routines are working
note: remaining proactive and keeping awareness fresh is an ongoing focus
update from March 2013: Gunny will be running HRC Finished this summer,
his issues from the past are no longer a problem, hip issues remain an issue
which requires a close watch on training loads
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