Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Hello and welcome to the Sex and Squirrel podcast,

podcast that gives you real life dog training results. Now, today I am joined by Nicole. She does

fly ball and fly ball at a level that I think is pretty cool. Now, they're very noisy, Nicole. Is that normal? Is that every time you train, compete, do things with fly ball dogs. Are they always noisy? I mean, some are noisier than others, definitely. Give me a noisy breed. My whip it across staffing, my goodness, from the minute you get her out of the van and warm her up to the minute she goes back in the van if she's at fly, well, she is barking. But then she's silent the rest of the time. Whereas party, who's colleague cross with it, she's quite gobby at home, absolutely silent in the ring. So, but... So funny. Now, in terms of the barking, is there ever a place where the barking gets in the way? Like, can it ever get too much or they can't think or it's out of control?

Yeah, definitely. If they're too aroused and they're just constantly barking, say if you're trying to train box turn, that's quite a technical thing to try and train. So we do lots of training for toys in Flyball. Quite often we will, we'll switch to food

to try and train a box turn just to get them in the right head space. But you do get some dogs.

Normally dogs that have had no sort of training foundations. If the first thing you're trying

to do is train them a box turn in that sort of environment, you know, we have had dogs just

stand there and bark and they've had to go away. Go and think about that. And ultimately, you know we have had dogs just stand there and bark and they've had to go away.

Go and think about that. And ultimately, you know, some of those dogs never actually make it

because they just find it too exciting. So why do you love Flyball or what do you love about Flyball?

I think it's been part of a team, a team of everybody who sort of is aiming for the same thing, everyone

who loves their

dogs. And like versus agility when you're training, you've got your whole team there. So there's

so many people to pick up on why something isn't going right or to give you little pointers,

that sort of thing. So it's a nice camaraderie. Yeah. And traveling around with your whole team,

like we go, we travel frequently

sort of four hours and yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it is. It's mostly fun. And tell me some of your

highest points of flyball, like what have been some of your like real highs or that was cool or that

experience was good or, yeah, tell me about it. it so the last three years this will be our fourth

year going to crofts so wow high five love that started trying to qualify for crofts about five

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