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	<title>K-9 Unit In-Training</title>
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		<title>Don has fun with his reward</title>
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Don received a brand new towel as a reward for a hard-days-work and he turned it into a game. The remains are left draping him in the photo. Don&#8217;t trust him with your laundry. 
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		<title>Half Way Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday marked the half way point for Don&#8217;s and my training. During the past week we traveled to Taylorville and Decatur.  We use as many different resources as possible because when we work we&#8217;ll never be in the same situation twice.  In Taylorville we used the club house at an old golf course.  This club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rochellek9.com/index.php/2010/04/02/half-way-done/</link>
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		<title>Consistent, Insistent and Persistent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to learn that training Don is repeating the same obedience and agility exercises, drug/narcotics detection, bite work, tracking, and article searches over and over and over, pretty much to the point that we could do them with our eyes closed. It gets boring but it&#8217;s necessary and important. Keeping high intensity and making it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rochellek9.com/index.php/2010/03/23/consistent-insistent-and-persistent/</link>
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		<title>2 Weeks Down!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just finished up week 2 of 10.  At the end of week 1 I began teaching Don to heel, he didn&#8217;t catch on really at all so I really worked him this week on it.  I wouldn&#8217;t say we have perfected it but we have made a lot of progress.  I do give alot of credit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rochellek9.com/index.php/2010/03/12/2-weeks-down/</link>
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		<title>Day 3 of Week 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy dog!!! Don had a great day!!! This morning we worked really hard on sitting, laying down, and heeling.  These simple commands look easy but when you&#8217;re training a young dog with a lot of energy it really takes a lot of patience.  Don loves his tennis ball which is his reward when he does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Week Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize to everyone that has visited the blog and has not seen any posts from me, I havent had any internet access until I got home tonight.  WOW!! First week down, how many are left!?!?!
The people who told me it wouldn&#8217;t be easy didn&#8217;t lie. Like anything else in life, we&#8217;ve had our good days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rochellek9.com/index.php/2010/03/05/first-week-down/</link>
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		<title>The Search for a Good Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The week of February 15 we headed out to Vohne Liche Kennels to meet different dogs and find the best match for our departmental needs and our handler. We evaluated ten dogs-nine were male and there was one female in the  group that consisted of German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, and Dutch  Shepherds. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rochellek9.com/index.php/2010/02/24/the-search-for-a-good-dog/</link>
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