Jones who is four and Gracie who is two are half siblings and share the same father. They are definitely a deviation from the Rottweilers I worked for almost close to 20 years. Jones is currently recovering from a TPLO surgery because he is a wild man with zero self preservation. His agility career won't be anything more than just playing around in the backyard with low jumps. But I am planning on continuing his performance dog journey with Rally and possibly competitive obedience.
Gracie may be the most challenging dog I have owned to date. Besides being my first female dog, she doesn't have the confidence that her brother has or my Rottweilers had. She is more reserved and has some fear issues. Gracie has done some very basic UKI agility but had a self inflicted teeter incident that scared her half to death right before she turned one. She has been struggling with agility in general since then. She had some time off this past fall and winter and we are started to try some different training methodology to help her come out of her shell and to learn that training and dog sports are fun. This will be a journey with her and I'll let it unfold on here. Every dog is in your life to teach you something...Gracie is in my life to definitely teach me about dog training in a way I haven't before. So, I hope you find our training path helpful and interesting.