Category: My Dogs
Comparing Notes
Here is some fun. This is an interview that was done with me in 1998. It was for an Agility Magazine (Agility Spotlight) that was in existence back then but it didn’t make it. I came across this interview and I thought it might be fun to post it and compare my answers today to [...]
Read moreDoes this Mean 2×2 Training Doesn’t Work?
At the recent IFCS World Championships in England Encore really struggled with her weave entries. Believe it or not I actually had people come up to me telling me they where concerned as they just bought my 2×2 Weave Training DVD and wondered if I felt they should train that way? Too funny. First of [...]
Read moreMore Videos From the 2010 IFCS World Championships
Here are a couple more videos. I hope to get one more up of Encores runs. Enjoy! And this one is just fun. Today I am grateful that Heathrow airport is once again open so the dogs and the team can fly home (John and I are staying here another week to visit with his [...]
Read moreComplete Canadian IFCS Updates
Well, right in the middle of the comp over here in England, just too much to focus on to write a complete blog post but if you have some time, check out our team blog at www.aacwt.com there are videos, results and great pictures there. Today I am grateful for all the messages of support [...]
Read moreUpdates From the Motherland
Well our IFCS 2010 adventure began last weekend. We had a team practice locally and then the team came back to our place for dinner and a photo shoot. Our team managers Tracy Sklenar and her assistant Nina Durante have done a super job of organizing us all. From the group vet check on Friday [...]
Read moreFor Those Who Have Been Asking . . .
I took last weekend and went through some old video tapes. Many of you that have read Shaping Success have been asking to see Buzzy perform when he was in his youth. I wasn’t able to find the ones I wanted (where he won Championships) but I think I found enough to give you [...]
Read moreBut She is Still My Baby Dog . . .
Well big news came in tonight, the CKC Agility Team Canada (FCI World Team) was named. I am very pleased to report that Missy Encore and baby Feature have both be named to the Large Dog team. For Feature, being named to her 2nd World Team before her 3rd birthday is both exciting and [...]
Read moreIs There a Difference?
Any of you that have been following this blog for a while know that I am all for positive thinking. Tony Robbins referrs to it as not creating self limited beliefs for yourself. In Shaping Success I wrote about how I learned from my mistakes of doing just that. When Buzzy was young (and a [...]
Read moreBuzzy Wins The Alberton Spring Classic!
We have had great weather here the last few days. All the dogs are certainly enjoying it. I put together this little video of Buzz having fun now that he is feeling so much better. I can’t stress enough to all of you with older dogs (and those that own dogs that will some day [...]
Read moreExactly Where You Should Be
Reinforcement based training takes a hit when people on the outside see it fail. That is the truth with any systematic way of training. Critics use those that have little success as a warning sign of impeding doom to any that would attempt to train using similar methodology. There are so many people wanting to [...]
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