Category: Dog Training: Skills
Can You Do It In a Box? GameDay 24
This was meant to be my recall e-course’s lesson for today. But I thought I would share this one with everyone. Earlier in the week Lynda (one of our instructors here at Say Yes) and I were sitting around discussing the recaller course. Lynda felt some struggles people may be having with their dogs were [...]
Read moreTomorrow’s Brilliance
We just wrapped up another 4 days of camps here at Say Yes. Thursday & Friday it was Advances in Dog Training followed by Saturday and Sunday’s Critical Elements for Sport and Life (formerly puppy camp so lots of puppies here but no longer restricted to puppies). Lately we have had some super people here [...]
Read moreFeaturing Feature!
Today is all about the baby dog! I have some video highlights of her weekend at the AAC Nationals. For all of you on the recallers side, we still don’t have a lesson up for you today so I am going to give you the assignment of finding the times when value for RZ …
Read moreAnother Nationals In the History Books
We arrived home from the AAC Nationals at 2 AM this morning. My dogs ran wonderfully all weekend long, both of them. Between the 7 events (Steeplechase finals, 2 Standard, 2 Jumpers, 2 Gamblers) the two dogs won 5 of them. Feature won both Standards and 1 Gamblers, Encore won the other Gamblers and the [...]
Read moreFinding the Joy
In her third and final instalment (for now:)), Helen shares some of the key lessons she has learned up to this point of her journey with her pankin’ pants poodle puppy Uppity. At one point when I was very frustrated with Uppity’s slow progress, I was talking to Susan on the phone and whining to [...]
Read moreThe Road to Recovering From Stress
In my last post “Stressing in the Real World” my friend Helen opened up about the ups and downs of training her challenging Standard Poodle puppy “Uppity.” Today we learn what the keys where for Helen’s turn about. Once again here is Helen . . . Although I had a lot of bad days while [...]
Read moreStressing in the Real World
For the last six months or so I have been observing my friend’s struggles and successes with her new Standard Poodle puppy. I thought her story was one that could help a lot of people so I ask her to share it with all of you. Here is Helen and her story. When it was [...]
Read moreStress; Another Distraction or Something Greater?
Recently our recall e-class came up against where “Stress” fits into the list of distractions you need to work through. I have written several blog posts on stress over the 2 years I have been blogging, if you do a search on “stress” you will come up with quite few. This one will add …
Read moreWow Have Things Changed Since 1998 . . . Or Have They?
This is the final instalment of the interview I did in 1998. I hope it has been as much fun for you looking back as it was for me! Question 11. What are your training/teaching/judging involvements in Agility now? i.e. how often do you train your own dogs, how often do you teach classes and [...]
Read more“Wow!” On So Many Levels
This weekend was another fabulous Canada Cup competition. And it was wow, amazing as it is every year. There is always the threat that this event will go away as entries are inconsistent at best. The weekend is so much work for our hosts Susan and Adrian to take on, but it is almost like [...]
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