Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
One New Trick A Month - April - Hide in a Suitcase
Hi! It's Cinnamon.
Finally it's my turn to show a new trick I have just learned!
This month I learned to hop in a suitcase and hide in it. I hope you enjoy watching the movie!
Finally it's my turn to show a new trick I have just learned!
This month I learned to hop in a suitcase and hide in it. I hope you enjoy watching the movie!
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Pets Picnic in The Park 2012
Hi! It's Cinnamon.
A week after SPCA Devonport Dog Parade I told you about in my last post, Mint and I did another dog dancing demonstration at Humane Society Pets Picnic in The Park in One Tree Hill Domain.
Actually I did demos in the same event last year and the year before, and the one I did two years ago was my first ever dog dancing demonstration in public!
This time I invited our friends Kurosawa the Retradoodle and Marvi and Milia the Chipoos over to see our dancing for the first time.
Well, this demonstration turned out to be in one of the hardest conditions I had ever experienced. For one, there were a couple of families having a picnic lunch just by the ring. (You know it's so hard for Beagles to ignore food especialy when they are off leash!!) Also, as soon as Mum put my stool in the centre of the ring as a preparation, many kids started coming into the ring to play with the stool. To our relief there were no kids in the ring, when Mum and I were called into the ring for my dance performance, but just when we stood at the starting position near my stool, a toddler wandered into the ring and SAT on my stool with some food in his hand!! He stayed sitting there for a while, so we had to wait until his mum came and took him out of the ring!
After the little human was taken out of the ring, my music finally started. But, my stool smelled so nice that I couldn't concentrate on my performance. I just couldn't help checking the smell of my stool several times during my routine...
Again Mint did a little better than I did. But, again he was so eager to jump that he was jumping when he was not supposed to! Why can't he stay on the ground!?
In our dance demonstration our colleague Fletcher the Border Collie also performed. Because there were only three of us in our team this time, Fletcher did two routines, of which I especially loved his limbo dance routine. It was so unique and cool!
Well, Mum didn't really want to show you videos of our performance this time, because we both made many mistakes in our routines. But, who cares!! I don't mind showing a video of me making mistakes :-)
After our dance demonstration, many competitions took place. Mum didn't plan to enter us to any of these competitions, but, encouraged by Fletcher's human, she entered both of us to the Best Quick Trick Contest, and I won with my handstanding trick and Mint got placed the second with his jumping rope trick!!
Sorry we don't have any videos of us doing our tricks in the competition. But, here you can see how happy we were, having got prizes! (Our prizes were in the red bag Mum is carrying in the photo.)
After the Best Quick Trick Contest, there was the Potato Race, where humans run holding their dog's lead and a spoon with a potato on it with ONE hand, and our friend Kurosawa and his mum won it!! Well done, the Team Kurosawa!!
A week after SPCA Devonport Dog Parade I told you about in my last post, Mint and I did another dog dancing demonstration at Humane Society Pets Picnic in The Park in One Tree Hill Domain.
Actually I did demos in the same event last year and the year before, and the one I did two years ago was my first ever dog dancing demonstration in public!
This time I invited our friends Kurosawa the Retradoodle and Marvi and Milia the Chipoos over to see our dancing for the first time.
Well, this demonstration turned out to be in one of the hardest conditions I had ever experienced. For one, there were a couple of families having a picnic lunch just by the ring. (You know it's so hard for Beagles to ignore food especialy when they are off leash!!) Also, as soon as Mum put my stool in the centre of the ring as a preparation, many kids started coming into the ring to play with the stool. To our relief there were no kids in the ring, when Mum and I were called into the ring for my dance performance, but just when we stood at the starting position near my stool, a toddler wandered into the ring and SAT on my stool with some food in his hand!! He stayed sitting there for a while, so we had to wait until his mum came and took him out of the ring!
After the little human was taken out of the ring, my music finally started. But, my stool smelled so nice that I couldn't concentrate on my performance. I just couldn't help checking the smell of my stool several times during my routine...
Again Mint did a little better than I did. But, again he was so eager to jump that he was jumping when he was not supposed to! Why can't he stay on the ground!?
In our dance demonstration our colleague Fletcher the Border Collie also performed. Because there were only three of us in our team this time, Fletcher did two routines, of which I especially loved his limbo dance routine. It was so unique and cool!
Well, Mum didn't really want to show you videos of our performance this time, because we both made many mistakes in our routines. But, who cares!! I don't mind showing a video of me making mistakes :-)
After our dance demonstration, many competitions took place. Mum didn't plan to enter us to any of these competitions, but, encouraged by Fletcher's human, she entered both of us to the Best Quick Trick Contest, and I won with my handstanding trick and Mint got placed the second with his jumping rope trick!!
Sorry we don't have any videos of us doing our tricks in the competition. But, here you can see how happy we were, having got prizes! (Our prizes were in the red bag Mum is carrying in the photo.)
After the Best Quick Trick Contest, there was the Potato Race, where humans run holding their dog's lead and a spoon with a potato on it with ONE hand, and our friend Kurosawa and his mum won it!! Well done, the Team Kurosawa!!
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Devonport Dog Parade 2012
Hi! It's Cinnamon.
We have been very busy every weekend for the last few weeks. Two weeks ago and a week ago we did dog dancing demonstrations at doggie events, and on the last weekend we went to agility competitions.
Our first dog dancing demonstration of the year was at SPCA Devonport Dog Parade on March the 25th.
That day Mum was very nervous for several reasons. After the Paws N Music competition at NDOA (National Dog Obedience Assembly) last October, we hadn't practised dancing much. So, a couple of weeks before the demonstration at the Dog Parade, we started practising our routines again. It seems Mum thought that it wouldn't be too difficult as we had practised tricks regularly. But, what Mum didn't realise was that dancing to the music is totally different to simply doing tricks on commands. When you dance to the music, you need to hit every trick at the right timing, but when you do tricks on commands, you can do them when you think you are ready. Also, because we were to do our demos on the grass, we had to change the skateboarding part of my routine.
Another thing that made Mum nervous was that it was the day when some road rules were to change. Until the previous day we had some road rules that you wouldn't find in any other part of the world. In countries where vehicles must run on the left side of the road, giving way to the traffic coming from the right at round abouts is nothing unusual at all, but you also had to give way to the traffic coming from the other way and turning to their right at intersections, when you wanted to turn to your left. However, the NZ Transport Agency has decided to change the rule and a couple of other similar rules to make them compliant with standard road rules around the world, and the change came into effect on the day when we did our demo. So, Mum was very worried that many drivers might still be confused about those new rules, creating a high risk of traffic accidents.
Anyway it turned out that all those worries were unnecessary. Who cares if you make some mistakes in your dog dancing routines!? Some sniffing makes Beagles' dance performance more interesting and lively! In fact that is what happened in our demo. I admit that I just couldn't resit sniffing the ground at the beginning of my routine, but I could hear the audience's applause when I went back to dancing!
Mint did a little better than I did, in terms of 'not sniffing'. But, he was so eager to do his favorite jumping tricks, he was jumping even when he was not supposed to. But, again, never mind!! If the audience was enjoying watching what we were doing, that's great, isn't it?
In terms of the changes in road rules, we didn't come across a situation affected by the changes at all. So, Mum's concern was unnecessary again.
Well, after the demo, Mum bought us little muffins specially made for doggies. They were so yummy!!
Sorry we have no photos of our dancing this time. But, I promise I will show you some photos from another demo in my next blog post.
We have been very busy every weekend for the last few weeks. Two weeks ago and a week ago we did dog dancing demonstrations at doggie events, and on the last weekend we went to agility competitions.
Our first dog dancing demonstration of the year was at SPCA Devonport Dog Parade on March the 25th.
That day Mum was very nervous for several reasons. After the Paws N Music competition at NDOA (National Dog Obedience Assembly) last October, we hadn't practised dancing much. So, a couple of weeks before the demonstration at the Dog Parade, we started practising our routines again. It seems Mum thought that it wouldn't be too difficult as we had practised tricks regularly. But, what Mum didn't realise was that dancing to the music is totally different to simply doing tricks on commands. When you dance to the music, you need to hit every trick at the right timing, but when you do tricks on commands, you can do them when you think you are ready. Also, because we were to do our demos on the grass, we had to change the skateboarding part of my routine.
Another thing that made Mum nervous was that it was the day when some road rules were to change. Until the previous day we had some road rules that you wouldn't find in any other part of the world. In countries where vehicles must run on the left side of the road, giving way to the traffic coming from the right at round abouts is nothing unusual at all, but you also had to give way to the traffic coming from the other way and turning to their right at intersections, when you wanted to turn to your left. However, the NZ Transport Agency has decided to change the rule and a couple of other similar rules to make them compliant with standard road rules around the world, and the change came into effect on the day when we did our demo. So, Mum was very worried that many drivers might still be confused about those new rules, creating a high risk of traffic accidents.
Anyway it turned out that all those worries were unnecessary. Who cares if you make some mistakes in your dog dancing routines!? Some sniffing makes Beagles' dance performance more interesting and lively! In fact that is what happened in our demo. I admit that I just couldn't resit sniffing the ground at the beginning of my routine, but I could hear the audience's applause when I went back to dancing!
Mint did a little better than I did, in terms of 'not sniffing'. But, he was so eager to do his favorite jumping tricks, he was jumping even when he was not supposed to. But, again, never mind!! If the audience was enjoying watching what we were doing, that's great, isn't it?
In terms of the changes in road rules, we didn't come across a situation affected by the changes at all. So, Mum's concern was unnecessary again.
Well, after the demo, Mum bought us little muffins specially made for doggies. They were so yummy!!
Sorry we have no photos of our dancing this time. But, I promise I will show you some photos from another demo in my next blog post.
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