Sled dog breeding

[SternRose]

It doesn't really matter exactly how old Sasha is. She is a rescued stray, spayed, and she is in her forever home. Cheyenne too will be getting spayed. I always let my dogs have up to 1 year of age before spay or neuter. After Cheyenne's birthday I will make her an appointment to get fixed. She is here to stay, she has so many social problems that if I tried to re-home her I would be sentencing her to euthanization. Dawn will also be getting spayed as soon as I convince my hubby. He doesn't want to spay her, he wants to try 1 litter first. He and I are butting heads about it. I don't see why he needs to breed Dawn even once when we have a deposit on a high quality show line female due to be born at the end of the year. (well, if the b*tch gets pregnant. But the proposed stud and b*tch both have extraordinary bloodlines. If no pregnancy or no high quality female is born I can wait on another pairing or for the same b*tch to come back into heat). This female pup is supposed to be my foundation b*tch and Phantom's mate, if all goes well.

That's soo exciting! I'm watching my breeders litters, I know the paring I want and she's got that litter planed for the next few months I think, and I want to see the out come.

 

[Starfire669]

That's soo exciting! I'm watching my breeders litters, I know the paring I want and she's got that litter planed for the next few months I think, and I want to see the out come.

Same for my pup. The pair I wanted as parents were already planned. So I placed a deposit and now we are just waiting for the female to come into heat.

 

[SternRose]

Same for my pup. The pair I wanted as parents were already planned. So I placed a deposit and now we are just waiting for the female to come into heat.

Don't you just hate the wait? Lol, but it'll be worth it in the longvrun( or in some cases right away)

 

[Starfire669]

Don't you just hate the wait? Lol, but it'll be worth it in the longvrun( or in some cases right away)

It took me a while to find a pairing that I liked and wanted. And I started looking by studying Phantom's pedigree and family tree. Listed the faults and strengths of his line. Then looked up some winning dogs and did the same. My choice was a pup that I think will compliment his bloodline. It's a big risk, I am new at this so I may not understand everything. But I didn't just go and say, oh she is pretty I want her pup, or this one is from a champion so the pup will be good. I did my best to pick a good match for Phantom, I'm praying I made the right choice. The breeder asked me bunches of questions and helped me in regards to my choice.

One day though, I will get a silver Siberian and an agouti Siberian. I love those colors!

 

[SternRose]

It took me a while to find a pairing that I liked and wanted. And I started looking by studying Phantom's pedigree and family tree. Listed the faults and strengths of his line. Then looked up some winning dogs and did the same. My choice was a pup that I think will compliment his bloodline. It's a big risk, I am new at this so I may not understand everything. But I didn't just go and say, oh she is pretty I want her pup, or this one is from a champion so the pup will be good. I did my best to pick a good match for Phantom, I'm praying I made the right choice. The breeder asked me bunches of questions and helped me in regards to my choice.

One day though, I will get a silver Siberian and an agouti Siberian. I love those colors!

Well, I just picked a pairing because I don't have the other mate, so when I get there I will look for his other half if he does good in the ring.

 

[Windrider]

Your dog is gorgeous! How long did it take you to train her? Got any tips for a beginner?

The large contacts have me concerned. The dogs rarely work on the full sized versions, and when they do, it's at a walk and with a spotter, just in case. I'd love for my dogs to compete, but not at the risk of injury. I think Dawn would be good in compitition, Sasha doesn't seem to have the drive needed, and my puppy needs time to mature before getting serious with him.

Thank you! I don't know how to answer the question "How long did it take you to train her?" LOL I don't know anyone in agility who ever thinks the training is done! Windy is my first serious agility dog, though I did train and trial a bit with my old girl, a rough collie.

I started training Windy when she was 9 weeks old. Just usual puppy stuff plus following my hand through "course like movements" (front and rear crosses on the flat) and then going through the uprights of jumps without a bar, around cones, stuff like that. She was doing full length tunnels and chutes on her own by 12 weeks. Was doing full courses with lowered contacts and open channel weaves by 6 or 7 months. I am pretty sure she thinks she was born to do agility. ;-)



I started jumping her at her competition height at 1 1/2 years (large breeds should wait until 2 at least). We made our debut in AKC Novice the weekend after her 2nd birthday. Blasted through AKC Novice and Open that summer, plus USDAA Starters (which is more difficult). I can't trial during the school year (I teach weekends), so this summer with Windy being three years old, we finished AKC Excellent and started the long slog through Masters towards our MACH (Master Agility Champion) - those 20 double Qs are going to take a few years, I think. Also finished USDAA Advanced, but will wait until next summer to start their Masters, since that organization has crazy, world-title type Masters courses, which we aren't ready for.

Windy is a very intense and driven Sheltie who lives for agility. Most of our current training has to do with training me! LOL She is so fast I have GOT to be timely in my handling or she just makes up her own course!







Any tips for a beginner: Well, agility is so hands-on, it would be difficult giving advice without seeing your dog run. What are you having problems with? Definitely tell the owner of that dogwalk he needs to at least put a coat of paint with a good amount of sand in it for that running surface. The rubberized stuff is SO great, but a sanded surface is okay and what everyone used to use.

Any just because everyone is posting stacked pictures: Windy free stacked at 10 weeks. Her breeder has bred some of the greats in the Shelties, so Windy has awesome structure and is totally sound and never seems to hurt herself even though she throws herself around a course. She wasn't shown in breed due to being a bit large and "butch" for a girl and her back-skull is slightly sloped.

 

[SternRose]

Thank you! I don't know how to answer the question "How long did it take you to train her?" LOL I don't know anyone in agility who ever thinks the training is done! Windy is my first serious agility dog, though I did train and trial a bit with my old girl, a rough collie.

I started training Windy when she was 9 weeks old. Just usual puppy stuff plus following my hand through "course like movements" (front and rear crosses on the flat) and then going through the uprights of jumps without a bar, around cones, stuff like that. She was doing full length tunnels and chutes on her own by 12 weeks. Was doing full courses with lowered contacts and open channel weaves by 6 or 7 months. I am pretty sure she thinks she was born to do agility. ;-)

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I started jumping her at her competition height at 1 1/2 years (large breeds should wait until 2 at least). We made our debut in AKC Novice the weekend after her 2nd birthday. Blasted through AKC Novice and Open that summer, plus USDAA Starters (which is more difficult). I can't trial during the school year (I teach weekends), so this summer with Windy being three years old, we finished AKC Excellent and started the long slog through Masters towards our MACH (Master Agility Champion) - those 20 double Qs are going to take a few years, I think. Also finished USDAA Advanced, but will wait until next summer to start their Masters, since that organization has crazy, world-title type Masters courses, which we aren't ready for.

Windy is a very intense and driven Sheltie who lives for agility. Most of our current training has to do with training me! LOL She is so fast I have GOT to be timely in my handling or she just makes up her own course!


Any tips for a beginner: Well, agility is so hands-on, it would be difficult giving advice without seeing your dog run. What are you having problems with? Definitely tell the owner of that dogwalk he needs to at least put a coat of paint with a good amount of sand in it for that running surface. The rubberized stuff is SO great, but a sanded surface is okay and what everyone used to use. Any just because everyone is posting stacked pictures: Windy free stacked at 10 weeks. Her breeder has bred some of the greats in the Shelties, so Windy has awesome structure and is totally sound and never seems to hurt herself even though she throws herself around a course. She wasn't shown in breed due to being a bit large and "butch" for a girl and her back-skull is slightly sloped.

OMG! She's Soooo cute! Where'd you get her?

 

[Starfire669]

Thank you! I don't know how to answer the question "How long did it take you to train her?" LOL I don't know anyone in agility who ever thinks the training is done! Windy is my first serious agility dog, though I did train and trial a bit with my old girl, a rough collie.

I started training Windy when she was 9 weeks old. Just usual puppy stuff plus following my hand through "course like movements" (front and rear crosses on the flat) and then going through the uprights of jumps without a bar, around cones, stuff like that. She was doing full length tunnels and chutes on her own by 12 weeks. Was doing full courses with lowered contacts and open channel weaves by 6 or 7 months. I am pretty sure she thinks she was born to do agility. ;-)

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I started jumping her at her competition height at 1 1/2 years (large breeds should wait until 2 at least). We made our debut in AKC Novice the weekend after her 2nd birthday. Blasted through AKC Novice and Open that summer, plus USDAA Starters (which is more difficult). I can't trial during the school year (I teach weekends), so this summer with Windy being three years old, we finished AKC Excellent and started the long slog through Masters towards our MACH (Master Agility Champion) - those 20 double Qs are going to take a few years, I think. Also finished USDAA Advanced, but will wait until next summer to start their Masters, since that organization has crazy, world-title type Masters courses, which we aren't ready for.

Windy is a very intense and driven Sheltie who lives for agility. Most of our current training has to do with training me! LOL She is so fast I have GOT to be timely in my handling or she just makes up her own course!


Any tips for a beginner: Well, agility is so hands-on, it would be difficult giving advice without seeing your dog run. What are you having problems with? Definitely tell the owner of that dogwalk he needs to at least put a coat of paint with a good amount of sand in it for that running surface. The rubberized stuff is SO great, but a sanded surface is okay and what everyone used to use. Any just because everyone is posting stacked pictures: Windy free stacked at 10 weeks. Her breeder has bred some of the greats in the Shelties, so Windy has awesome structure and is totally sound and never seems to hurt herself even though she throws herself around a course. She wasn't shown in breed due to being a bit large and "butch" for a girl and her back-skull is slightly sloped.

I'm building my own training coarse. It will take me a few years to get everything, including the contacts, but I have 4 jumps and a beginners set of weave poles. I want to build my own dog walk, A-frame, and teeter so I can get the rubber surface, plus my training facility is 45 minutes away and only does Friday night and Saturday afternoon and there are so many people that you barely get warmed up before you cycle out of 1 ring and into another. It's good for starting out, but when we are ready to start doing speed runs, it won't work because of the ring set up and rotation deal. So best if I build my own coarse. I'm working 4 dogs in agility with a possible 5th if she gets enough self confidence. Each dog has different strengths and weakness and different approaches to agility. My best dog Dawn, the light copper Siberian, is serious about agility, fearless, and after only 4 training sessions is working off leash and doing fairly well. She don't get the zoomies nearly as often as my other Siberians. Her strengths are the contacts, she takes the full sized teeter, and dog walk off leash (at a walk and with my hand in front of her, my body next to her and a spotter on the other side for the dog walk). She is a beautiful jumper, and being a Siberian has speed to burn. But she don't like the chute and refuses it more often than she takes it, and she needs work on her weaves. I need instruction on how to do cross overs and distance handling. She is one I think might have what it takes to go to compitition, with her drive and focus. My pup Phantom is reckless but gives agility his all, when he wants too. He loses focus a lot, gets the zoomies often, and sometimes gets suicidal (trying to jump off the apex of the A-frame and what not). He won't even try the baby teeter, sometimes he runs the baby dog walk and others he refuses to set foot on it. He is a good jumper, but we keep them short since he is still growing. He is awesome at weaving, he follows my hand still, but he is off leash and I don't have bait in my hand and he does a 6 pole weave already. He has the drive, and I'm hoping that maturity will give him the focus. He could also be a compitition dog. Sasha, my son's dog and the one you saw on the dog walk, is slow and timid. She will never be a compitition dog. But she is steady and she takes all obstacles off leash, except the weave, my son hasn't tried training her on that yet. I think she is a good first agility dog for a reckless 12 year old boy. She keeps him grounded. She is very obedient, and does 3 minute sits, downs, and stays in obedience class. If my son wants I can always enter her in obedience competitions, as I think that is more suited to her personality. But as with most kids he wants agility and running, so I'm not sure how to go about helping them train. Rascal my Belgian Malinois, hasn't made up his mind about agility yet. He has a great working attitude, but he is dog aggressive and he would rather herd. He herds the Siberians here at home. But I swear he is part kangaroo, he can jump over 4 feet from a stand still. He is very athletic and can out run the Siberians in a sprint. Until he makes up his mind, there isn't much I can do with him right now. So I am focusing on training Dawn and Phantom as they have the most potential and drive.

 

[Americano Blue]

I'm building my own training coarse. It will take me a few years to get everything, including the contacts, but I have 4 jumps and a beginners set of weave poles. I want to build my own dog walk, A-frame, and teeter so I can get the rubber surface, plus my training facility is 45 minutes away and only does Friday night and Saturday afternoon and there are so many people that you barely get warmed up before you cycle out of 1 ring and into another. It's good for starting out, but when we are ready to start doing speed runs, it won't work because of the ring set up and rotation deal. So best if I build my own coarse.

I'm working 4 dogs in agility with a possible 5th if she gets enough self confidence. Each dog has different strengths and weakness and different approaches to agility. My best dog Dawn, the light copper Siberian, is serious about agility, fearless, and after only 4 training sessions is working off leash and doing fairly well. She don't get the zoomies nearly as often as my other Siberians. Her strengths are the contacts, she takes the full sized teeter, and dog walk off leash (at a walk and with my hand in front of her, my body next to her and a spotter on the other side for the dog walk). She is a beautiful jumper, and being a Siberian has speed to burn. But she don't like the chute and refuses it more often than she takes it, and she needs work on her weaves. I need instruction on how to do cross overs and distance handling. She is one I think might have what it takes to go to compitition, with her drive and focus.

My pup Phantom is reckless but gives agility his all, when he wants too. He loses focus a lot, gets the zoomies often, and sometimes gets suicidal (trying to jump off the apex of the A-frame and what not). He won't even try the baby teeter, sometimes he runs the baby dog walk and others he refuses to set foot on it. He is a good jumper, but we keep them short since he is still growing. He is awesome at weaving, he follows my hand still, but he is off leash and I don't have bait in my hand and he does a 6 pole weave already. He has the drive, and I'm hoping that maturity will give him the focus. He could also be a compitition dog.

Sasha, my son's dog and the one you saw on the dog walk, is slow and timid. She will never be a compitition dog. But she is steady and she takes all obstacles off leash, except the weave, my son hasn't tried training her on that yet. I think she is a good first agility dog for a reckless 12 year old boy. She keeps him grounded. She is very obedient, and does 3 minute sits, downs, and stays in obedience class. If my son wants I can always enter her in obedience competitions, as I think that is more suited to her personality. But as with most kids he wants agility and running, so I'm not sure how to go about helping them train.

Rascal my Belgian Malinois, hasn't made up his mind about agility yet. He has a great working attitude, but he is dog aggressive and he would rather herd. He herds the Siberians here at home. But I swear he is part kangaroo, he can jump over 4 feet from a stand still. He is very athletic and can out run the Siberians in a sprint. Until he makes up his mind, there isn't much I can do with him right now.

So I am focusing on training Dawn and Phantom as they have the most potential and drive.

nice. i do basic beginner agility with Meringue on days i can't run

 

[Starfire669]

nice. i do basic beginner agility with Meringue on days i can't run 

The A-frame and dog walk will be the last obstacles I add to my yard.