Puppy Camp Success

Posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009

Another puppy camp has been put to bed. What fun! It was all I thought it would be and more. Fun puppies and great students, I mean they really embraced the program. More energy by [...]

Belly Laughs

Posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009

Today is first day of another puppy camp. I am extra excited since 19 of the 24 puppies are less than 6 month old. Little sponges at this age, really. It is amazing how [...]

Exercising the Dogs

Posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Keeping in the theme of the week,  today I am going to give you a brief run down on some of the activities I use to keep my dogs fit throughout the year. Before I [...]

Retrieve Games

Posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Okay my intention was to do a quick video and post this little clip with the rest of my exercise thoughts today. However, even though I have a ton of stuff to do, I got [...]

Fido Fitness

Posted on Monday, August 24th, 2009

I had a question last week about what I do to keep my dogs in shape for competition. First of all, it is great that people are thinking about their dog’s fitness level.  It doesn’t matter [...]

That Once in a Lifetime Dog

Posted on Friday, August 21st, 2009

What I am about to say may come across as haughty and please forgive me if it does, as it is not my intention. I want to describe for you the relationship that develops with [...]

Treading Softly . . . not!

Posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Wow after yesterday’s response I was thinking today I would cover medi-care, hand guns laws or perhaps abortion.  Thanks to everyone that wrote in on the sensitive topic. Apparent Alex Baldwin stated an opinion similar to [...]

A Silver Lining or a Thunder Cloud?

Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Looking back I don’t think I have ever written anything on this blog that could be considered controversial. It is about the change today. 

Michael Vick, once the highest paid professional football player of all [...]

Weave Pole Spacing

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

There has been much debate about the “best” spacing between weave poles. In Europe all the weave pole bases I have seen have been on 24″ centres. I don’t know if they ever where different [...]

Swinging With The Dog

Posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009

There have been a few questions since I posted my National’s standard runs about turning my dog away from me on the contacts. It occurred when my dog raced up the dogwalk on my [...]