Category: Dog Training: Handling
How Handling Systems are like Spandex
We had a full day of handling here yesterday and another one planned for today. Double box times two! Yesterday was a group of mostly high drive dogs, 11 of the 14 being over-the-top Border Collies. For the most part, all of the dogs worked very well. However, at the end of the day, I had [...]
Read moreA Special Gift for You!
Lots of great lessons were discovered during my recent time out west. There is one lesson though, that I find myself repeating over and over again when I teach, and yet still I don’t see the change in people’s behaviour. You know the old saying “If you always do what you have always done, you [...]
Read moreMAC Trial
Well another one in the books. It was cold and snowy here the first day I arrived in Minnesota, well dah. It is Minnesota and it is February! A really well run trial. The girls from Omaha were up and I have to thank Brittney and Dana for making sure my runs got videoed. Some [...]
Read moreA New Goal for All of Us to Aim For
The trial I was at on Friday was a small one. There were two standard runs and in the second one, Feature was the only 26″ dogs (video included below). However with this very small trial there where still 3 people (that I knew of) competing (and doing very well) that were between 77-81 years old! [...]
Read moreThe Trophies are in a Box in the Basement
Here is a comment posted to yesterday’s blog that I think is worth highlighting. It came in from Trish who asked: Wondering… as a handler that is ‘watched’ every time she competes – what pressure do you feel (externally or internally) to make each run as good as it can be? In other words, how [...]
Read moreWinning When You Lose and Losing When You Win
I got a note from a student recently that was thrilled with her performance at a weekend trial, earning her first ever “double Q” in an AKC trial, the first step toward her MACH, gathering a boat load of mach points in the process as she was 18 seconds under time and 1.9 seconds faster [...]
Read moreRunning the "baby" dog
Well Feature and I had a chance to get to know each other better as a dog and handler team while we were in Florida. First of all, we worked together at camp for three days and then we had two weekends of trialing. I have to say bringing out a new dog is one [...]
Read moreHeading Home
Well all good things must come to an end and so we must leave the sunny south and head back home. We had a great time in Florida, topped off with one of my favorite trials of the year the “Dog-Gone-it!” trial in Orlando. I must take this opportunity to encourage all of you all [...]
Read moreQuestions Answered in Techno-geek Style
Okay guys, I got such a positive response the last time I presented this format here on the blog and since I couldn’t get the hologram to work 
I decided to go back to this format once again. Since this session would have gone on for ever, and I found out that YouTube doesn’t [...]
Very Clever!
Well there are some very clever people out there. I notice this morning there are still orders coming in for the ebook “Phase One of Excellence in Weave Pole Training”, even though I said it would no longer be available after the new DVD was released. So I went to our website and I can [...]
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