Category: Ramblings
Recallers 3.0 Video Contest Voting – Day 3
Day 3 of the video contest is upon us, and I’m sure by now, you’ve realized just how difficult our decision was in choosing these videos. You are a talented group of people, and I am so humbled to see how many lives (both human and dog) have been positively affected! It warms my heart [...]
Read moreRecallers 3.0 Video Contest Voting – Day 2
Welcome to Day 2 of voting for the Recallers Video Contest (see videos from Day 1 here). Thank you for all of your votes yesterday, on to day two! Voting will remain open until we close registrations for Recallers (which will be when the class fills). Registration for the 5 Minute Formula to a Brilliant [...]
Read moreRecallers 3.0 Video Contest Voting – Day 1
Over the last few weeks, we have run a video contest for previous members of Recallers 2, asking them to make a video about their experience with The Five Minute Formula to a Brilliant Recall. The response was incredible! We had over 250 videos submitted, and your creativity and enthusiasm for our course was amazing…I [...]
Read moreFailing Your Way to Dog Training Success
I think history has proven that learning happens primarily through mistakes, that is what “experience” is all about. Some of the world’s greatest successes have also been amongst the biggest failures. Thomas Edison, who most famous invention was the lightbulb said this when asked about all of his failures “I didn’t fail, I just found [...]
Read moreRemembering
Being today is 11/11/11 it seems to be some sort of super-sized Remembrance Day doesn’t it? Last month when we were in France for the world championships, we had one day to do some local touring. We chose to visit Vimy Ridge and the Canadian memorial there. I personally had no immediate relatives that served [...]
Read moreCelebrating the Life of a Champion
A great Canadian Olympian died suddenly yesterday, much to the shock of not just the Canadian equestrian world, and not just the fans of horse sport, but to the fans of sport and underdogs everywhere. Eric Lamaze great horse Hickstead died suddenly after finishing a round in Italy. Eric and Hickstead won just about all there [...]
Read moreCliff Hangers
Okay, so if you don’t like cliffhangers, maybe you shouldn’t read today’s blog:). The first “leave ‘em hanging” video I am going to show you is a new one I just posted to my Facebook Page. It is a two parter – here is part one, in order to see part two you have to [...]
Read moreA Mother’s Influence
I know I have been away at some big agility events and you may be expecting my first blog post back to be all about those events but, as always my writing is just a dumping of my thoughts and today my thoughts are about mothers. Actually I have been thinking about mothers much longer [...]
Read moreThe Possibilities in Dog Training
Recently I became involved in a discussion about dog training methodology with friends and members of the CAPPDT. I felt compelled to write this post, hopefully I did it without judgement. I know I have addressed this topic many times in the past but it certainly is worth more than one look. Do you know [...]
Read moreAirport Insights
John and I just returned from a working vacation in Italy. We spent that last few days in Rome, it was surreal. Like an adult version Disneyland except that all of the attractions were real and some over 2000 years old! Flying out of the airport in Rome I over heard a conversation that I [...]
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