A Lightbulb Moment

Went out to Dianne's yesterday to work Echo. Katy was there with Scout, and Jaenne came out with Mo. Katy went first and I videotaped a bit of their run. I put music to it, and attempted to upload it to YouTube and Photobucket, but both places rejected it because of copyright issues. If anyone knows what I am doing wrong and can help me fix this, I would appreciate it. I've uploaded other videos with music on them. Is there a certain type of music that has royalties? How does this work?

I am starting to work on driving with Echo. She is quite comfortable on the away side, so I let her go to that side for confidence, but I am also intermingling some work with her on the come bye side and trying to make it as positive experience as possible. I need to focus on using "there" instead of "lie down" ... and then Dianne explained something to me that made my driving with Zip make all the sense in the world. She basically told me never to let Echo go to head when driving. That didn't make sense to me, so I said, "Well how do I get the sheep back here to set it up again?" She said, "Call her off and do an outrun." She said that by letting her go to head while driving to fetch them back, you're setting yourself up for a battle because the dog will always anticipate that happening. The dog needs to understand that while driving, they get to go to the hip and to the shoulder but never past that. Make the fetch an outrun and a completely separate exercise. It all makes perfect sense. So I'll be practicing working on this.

I took some photos of Dianne's dogs for her website (Zorro, Andy, Annie, and May) and sent them all to Ellie. I can't wait to see how the website eventually turns out!

Happy tails,
JD