As you may know if you follow our Facebook page "Cinnamon and Mint the Beagles", we have been working very hard in every sport we do. We have been doing really well especially in Agility this year. We have been working very hard in Canine Freestyle as well, but we haven't had as significant achievements in the sport recently as we did two years ago. Mum has stopped competing in Obedience and Rally-O with Cinnamon, because she gets very nervous in the ring of the sports. Her anxiety in and around the Agility ring has improved a lot and now she rarely reacts to other dogs in Agility venues. Mum thinks that is because Cinnamon loves and enjoys Agility so much. In fact she has had two wins in Agility Championships this year and graduated from Jumpers C and Starters, and now she is competing in Jumpers B, Novice, and Intermediate. I have been doing well in Agility too, but I am not as fast as Cinnamon, so I haven't been able to graduate from Jumpers C yet.
Well, have you seen the title of this post? Yes, it's about how clever I, Mint, am!! Do you remember that we worked on "One New Trick A Month Challenge" three years ago? Wow, three years ago!? It's been a long time since! After that, we continued to learn new tricks but not as many as we did in 2012. Also, Mum has always said "Cinnamon is very clever and quick to learn new tricks, while Mint is very clumsy although he does them diligently once he has learned them". I thought that it was an insulting comment on such a clever boy like me. So, I decided to start performing my clever tricks to earn "Trick Dog" titles.
Do you know a world's famous dog trick instructor, Kyra Sundance? Her books about how to teach dogs tricks are very popular around the world. Recently we found out that her programme "Do More With Your Dog!" offers "Trick Dog" titles, and Mum decided to try them with me. When Mum told me about it, I was very excited because she chose me over Cinnamon!! Yes, she knew that I was a clever dog as well!! Yay!
Under the "Do More With Your Dog!" programme, there are five trick dog titles, "Novice", "Intermediate", "Advanced", "Expert", and "Champion." So far I have earned from "Novice" to "Expert". So, my next challenge is "Champion"!!
This is a video of tricks I performed to earn my Expert Trick Dog title.
hello mint its dennis the vizsla dog hay gud job on beeing clever!!! the champion challendj wow that sownds like the top of the line all rite i no yoo can do it!!! ok bye
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to hear from you, Dennis!! Hope you've been doing well. Yes, I, Mint, will do my best to earn the Champion title too!
DeleteI didn't know you had a Facebook page! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on both of your accomplishments! Also thanks for sharing the trick dog titles. I had no idea she was doing that. I'll have to look into the requirements. :) Congrats on making expert Mint! I love the video. So talented. Also so handsome!! Good luck with your Champion title!
Thank you for your comment!! How has Jackal been doing? Hope everything is going well for you all.
DeleteWe find Facebook easier and more convenient, so we kept posting our news on Facebook while we were absent from the blog world. But, we hope to blog more often from now on again so that we can let everyone know what we are doing in more detail.
Jackal has many tricks, so it should be easy for him to earn trick dog titles too!!
I'm following your Facebook page now so hopefully I can get caught up again. :D
DeleteJackal is doing well. When we moved my grandparents next door were feeding him cat food without me knowing and he put on a lot of weight. He's been on a diet for a year now and still has more to lose, but it's going well. Unfortunately due to the weight he can't comfortably do some of his tricks anymore, but he already knows enough to get the first title easily. We haven't been working on our tricks or anything lately because I've been so busy with building the house and now working all the time, but we will get back to it eventually.
I look forward to you blogging again! :D
Thank you for following our Facebook page ;-) Hope Jackal can lose weight smoothly so that he can enjoy learning and doing tricks again. He is very good at it!
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