Category: Ramblings
Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice, That’s What Girls are Made Of
What fun this topic has been. Thanks to everyone for sharing your thoughts. Some have been hysterical! As far as performance in the ring goes, there have been some great male dogs and some great females all around the world in agility. I think generally speaking the girls are quicker but the boys are faster. [...]
Read moreSnips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails (or why boys are icky)
Okay I knew once I wrote the “gold bullion comment” last week, that I would have to address my preference for selecting females over male puppies. Let me preface this by saying three of the rescue dogs I have taken, trained and re-homed over the years, were males (they all lived with me …
Read moreMaking a Game of Changing Behaviour
I have been sent this video clip by many of you now so I have taken the hint and am posting it here to the blog. It really is about blending what you want with some imagination.Think about this in reference to dog training. Take something in your dog’s (or even your spouses:)) behaviour and think [...]
Read moreHelen King on Structure Evaluation
When Susan asked me to write about what kind of structure to look for in performance puppies, I thought, sure but how do I give them the meaning of life in a few paragraphs? OK, that is a bit of an exaggeration but it is not something you learn in one blog entry. It has [...]
Read moreOn Picking MY Puppy
Okay, sometimes my blog is a bit frustrating. Yesterday was one of those days. I scheduled a post to come up tomorrow and (even thought the date read Oct 30th) it showed up yesterday (on the 28th). So that is why some of you may have read a post that was there for a few [...]
Read morePuppies You Just Hafta Have . . .
So I have heard from some of you that you are curious why I did not mention Encore in my two posts last week about how I picked my puppies. It was for no reason in particular other than brevity, just as there was no reason why I didn’t mention how I selected my first [...]
Read moreFirst night
I can’t believe how awesome it is to finally be in a real home, especially one we have waited so long to get into! Yesterday a few friends and relatives lent us a hand and we got everything into the house in 6 hours! I seemed to remember it took days to pack it all [...]
Read moreEverything IS Amazing and So Few People are Happy
This is another great video clip for you with Conan O’Brien interviewing comedian Lewis CK. ”Louie” is talking about how amazing life is right now and yet how “non contributing zeros” can still find something to complain about. Basically the clip is about gratitude and appreciating all that is good with the world we live [...]
Read moreOr is it . . .
Some great comments following my post yesterday. I love when my own students don’t agree with me! Not that I want a lot of arguments when I am teaching, but it is brilliant if you question opinion, that makes everyone better. If you push me to explain myself you may expose a weakness in my [...]
Read moreLove at First Sight . . . It is a Must!
Writing the post yesterday got me thinking about raising those two puppies. I realized I actually was also training a 3rd puppy at the same time. When I brought Speki home to train I actually already had a 6 month old Border Collie that was in for training. In total I have brought in 5 [...]
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