Shaping Fun

Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010

Hey some excellent ideas rolling in to try and shape. I don’t know about shaping the Shar Pei to snore doing her waking hours thought. There could be some physiological stasis that needs to be [...]

Shaping Challenge

Posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Okay, it is mid winter (for some, okay hard to imagine it as winter here in Florida). Here is a challenge for you all. Sometime before the

weekend (that is two days) shape your dog to [...]

Defining Agility Brilliance

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

I was eating my breakfast this morning thinking about what I want to accomplish at the three day workshop I have starting today. The workshop is primarily young, adolescent agility dogs, those either just embarking [...]

Start Line “Fun”

Posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010

I entitled this post Start Line “Fun” because for many of you, that is what is lacking. It has become more like Start Line “Hell” than Start Line Fun.  If you are trying to trick, [...]

Start Line Brilliance Begins in the Dryer?

Posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I just wrapped up a workshop with young dogs getting ready to trial. I would say less than 30% of the group had really reliable start lines stays.  That is not a good sign. If [...]

The Barking Agility Dog Hall of Agility Super Stardom

Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010

Okay being the proud owner of Buzz, (who, if there was a Hall of Fame for Barking Agility Dogs, would be one of the first inductees) I feel it would be remiss if I didn’t [...]

Random Barking Thoughts . . . or Barking Random Thoughts

Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

I just love this shot. Kristie Moser took in last weekend in Orlando. It is just a crack up. Encore doing all the talking, then there is me, lips pursed, as if trying not to [...]

The Puppy One Hundred (and thirty five)

Posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010

Okay since I gave you all a bit of a shake up last week with my cyber behaviour experiment, all good trainers know in order to prevent complete shut down, it is time for a [...]

How Awesome is Reinforcement Really?

Posted on Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Okay if you haven’t read yesterday’s blog post, please do or this one won’t make sense to you.
Yesterday I had many of you stressing about what I wrote. You were like dogs shutting down on [...]

Weird Facts for a Wednesday

Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

We are driving to Florida today, of course I use the royal “we” as it is actually my darling John that does all of the driving.  I am working/goofing off on the internet. So [...]