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I am intrigued by what attracts people to do a particular training course. Possibly because I spend quite a lot of time devising the courses I run for a particular purpose and try to use the name and write up to help people choose if it is the right course for them.

This usually does work but on recent external training courses I have found that what I had planned to do would not suit the dogs that are attending. I can adapt them and still give a good training session in their eyes. Internally I am disappointed that I have been unable to use the equipment/exercises I had planned though.

I will be doing some market research on this later in the year to ensure I word things perfectly for next year :)

Meanwhile Torro does an amazing impersonation of Sergei from the Compare the Meerkat adverts J

He really is a geeky looking dog but has the most gorgeous eyes. He is a tri colour – not a showy off kind off tri like Rhyme but a discreet tri that only his close friends get to appreciate.

I have written a lot about Rhyme in my blogs and don’t mention Torro much. It is as if Torro is private and not to be mentioned. Far from it. 

Torro is the kindest of dogs and is always a part of all we do. He is never any trouble, except for the bopping of dogs not wanting bopping and the disappearing into Tunnels on courses that I don’t want him going into!

At the weekend we visited our niece and nephew Ollie and Emeilia. Ollie is a real outdoor boy and a bit of a daredevil. He is 5 and Emilia is 2. We took the dogs out and dispite their little legs they can walk a long way:)

They don’t have pets and Mark’s brother wouldn’t really want them so we are their opportunity to socialize with dogs. Some parents approach bringing their children up as we do with our puppies with specific socialisation boxes to be ticked (or is that just our sister-in-law?)

Ollie obviously needed a dog to walk – madness giving a lively, excitable Border Collie to a non dog family five year old – recipe for disaster. Not if that Border Collie is Torro Laker. He was superb and just ran along side Ollie – no pulling or messing about. He stood still for Ollie to undo his lead to run with the others and came back to Ollie to have his lead back on for the on lead part back to the house.

We hadn’t seen Ollie or Emeilia since Mark’s birthday so they sang to him :-

http://youtu.be/qNVd9DJ0gCk

Very cute if you like kids :)