Category: Susan Speaks
Help Is On the Way!
Membership has it’s privilages . . . but it also has its hiccups! No worries though, we have them all covered. I may sound like a broken record, but I just can’t say enough about the job Jason and Andrea of WebManna have done for me with this new venture. Jason didn’t go to bed [...]
Read moreWe Are Live!
Check us out, we have finally got all of the changes made to the blog so that my new e-course is ready to take registrations! Click on the video and you will get more details about the program. At the bottom of this post I am going to let you know what you should expect about [...]
Read moreYou’ve Got Me Up at Night . . . .
Okay so I can’t get you out of my head, but that is a good thing I think, for both of us. Sooooo, totally task focused I threw all vanity aside this morning and put this video together for you. You all get to see what greets John each morning when I roll out of [...]
Read moreWhat A Great Way To Kick Of the Games
Okay, I just had to share this. Love, love, love it. What a great way to start our IFCS World Championships today. Enjoy. Today I am grateful for Feature who turns 3 years old today and is participating in her very first World Championship and I am also grateful for Encore, who is being a [...]
Read moreStressing Dogs, Dancing Humans & Weirdly Inappropriate Reinforcement
Stress. It is a hot topic. At every seminar I teach someone will tell me about their “stressy” dog and how they (as the handler) will need to alter my instructions in order to deflect the stress of the environment away from this woeful creature. Here is the thing. It is an incredibly difficult lesson [...]
Read morePay Truth Forward
Okay since I wrote about asking John to lie to me yesterday I thought I would share with you information about a presenter I met at Tony Robbin’s workshop in Orlando a few weeks ago. His name is Gary King. He had a unique presentation on character and honesty. He spoke about “inconsequential lies” such [...]
Read moreA Neccessary Untruth
So John and I have had this agreement when I go away to teach. It is that he will lie to me. I think it may be unfair to him, but he doesn’t complain and luckily he has rarely had to lie. So the agreement is, that if anything happens to one of my dogs [...]
Read moreShaping Fun
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 present before she is even able to snore. I don’t know really but I guess it couldn’t hurt to give [...]
Read moreHappy New Year 2010!
Let me take this opportunity to send out my own personal best positive vibes for each of you that regularly visits this blog. Here is wishing 2010 to be the best year ever for each of you! I know I am totally stoked. I have tons planned for the year. We …
Read more2x2s and the Experienced Dog
This is a question that keeps coming up with dogs learning the 2x2s for the first time but have had previous experience with weaving. What often happens with these dogs is that, even though you may establish the Reward Line, when you send the dog from high on the arc the dog often will choose [...]
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