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Puppy Peaks Video Contest Voting – Day 4

Day 4 of voting is upon us!  We've had nearly 1,500 people vote for our first 15 videos...can you believe it?  Thank you to everyone for voting, and a special thanks to our talented videographers for providing us with such beautiful entertainment over the last [...]

2013-08-29T12:45:54-04:00August 29th, 2013|15 Comments

Puppy Peaks Video Contest – Day 3

Day 3 of voting is upon us!  First of all, a big round of virtual applause for all of our videos so far!  Aren't they amazing? There have been two tough decisions over the last two days and today will be no more different! For [...]

2013-08-28T15:16:58-04:00August 28th, 2013|11 Comments

Puppy Peaks Video Contest Voting – Day 1!

Well let me start off by saying, "WOW!"  Once again, the members of our wonderful community have managed to surprise me with your talent...not only as dog trainers, but as video makers as well!  Over the last two weeks, we have been running our 1st [...]

2013-08-26T18:46:54-04:00August 26th, 2013|20 Comments

Cutting Your Dog’s Nails: How Important Is It Really?

Today I have a guest blogger by way of an impromptu video. Dr. Leslie Woodcock DVM, is a long time friend of mine (for more than 20 years). She has been our Team Canada veterinarian at most of our international events (WAO, IFCS, FCI) for [...]

2021-08-15T00:52:53-04:00August 19th, 2013|253 Comments

Life’s Little Detours: Making Outrageously Tasty Lemonade

According to my booking calendar (planned more than a year ago) I should be in Germany right now. I had made my decision at that time, that I would not be applying to Canada’s FCI team to travel to South Africa in 2013 [...]

2020-01-11T21:08:16-04:00July 22nd, 2013|71 Comments

Dog Agility Championships: Bring On Snooker & Gamblers

The Games Championship is comprised of two Games: Snooker and Gamblers. If you are really keen to learn more about each game, there is a briefing written up on the WAO home page. Snooker is a game that most people who are new to agility [...]

2020-01-11T21:08:56-04:00May 30th, 2013|15 Comments

International Agility Championship . . . The First Time All Over Again

I just got home from my participating in my second WAO (World Agility Open) event held in Oviedo, Spain. Some consider this one of the four "world championship" type agility events; FCI in October, European Open in July, WAO in May and IFCS held every [...]

2020-01-11T21:10:40-04:00May 23rd, 2013|30 Comments

Your Dog Recovering From Severe Trauma . . . Is There A Baseline?

As many of you will know my then 8 year old Border Collie "Encore" suffered a major traumatic event 3 months ago when she collapsed seizing one morning which could not be stopped. With good medical care and the outpouring of prayers from this dog [...]

2020-01-11T21:11:59-04:00March 21st, 2013|96 Comments

What Does Internationalization in Dog Agility Really Mean?

Today is the first “Dog Agility Blog Event for 2013” and the topic myself and other dog agility bloggers are writing on is  “Internationalization.”  When I first saw the topic I thought to Attending my first ever World Championship as a spectator in Finland in [...]

2018-03-08T07:14:49-04:00March 6th, 2013|50 Comments
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