Posted on 03/19/11

In the homes stretch everyone! I really appreciate all of your help with the voting and of course the dialogue in the comments section has been great! So same routine as the last two days. Vote for your two favourite videos. Yesterday was tough, I think today is even harder! Today’s entries come to your [...]
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Posted on 03/18/11

Day two! Thank you everyone for voting yesterday what a great response! The polls will stay open on all videos until this Sunday evening at midnight. Here you have a completly new group of videos to choose from. Once again please select your two favourites. For those of you that have been asking about our [...]
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Posted on 03/17/11

I had a tough job so I am looking for some help for each of you. It was nearly impossible to pick out the top 15 of nearly 200 amazing videos from the graduates of my 5 Minute Formula to a Brilliant Recall. I was absolutely blown away by the creativity, enthusiasm, and courage it [...]
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Posted on 03/14/11

Over the weekend Swagger got to have his sixth visit with his stand-in siblings the PineBank Labrador Retrievers. It was, once again, a great improvement upon his last two visits this time showing great confidence and less aggressive play with the group. He did more running about they actual wrestling and arguing. He is definitely [...]
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Posted on 03/10/11

Mr. Swagger has some new things for you all to count today. Naughtypants! See how many unwanted behaviours you can find in this short clip. You can see where the foundation of a lot of unwanted behaviours starts so young. This puppy could easily grow up to be a dog that will not come when [...]
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Posted on 03/08/11

Swagger had his fourth play date with the Labrador puppies. It was by far the best to date. Many “firsts” were shown during yesterdays play date. For the first time in four visits he actually allowed the Labs to put him on his back and play with them from this position. What was really [...]
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Posted on 03/06/11

This is a video I posted to my FaceBook page a couple of days ago. It shows Swagger with his new toy (which is a great confidence building toy for puppies). At the end it shows how I start my puppy’s jump training. Swagger turns 5 weeks old today, hard to believe really! [...]
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Posted on 03/04/11

Following up on my last post on NRMs I mentioned that the only place I really use one in my training is when the lack of information will create an expectancy of reinforcement for my dog. I mentioned the teaching of weave poles as one place that a NRM is critically important. The other place [...]
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Posted on 02/27/11

I think I have neglected you blog readers a bit by posting a lot of my updates about Swagger on my new Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SusanGarrettDogAgility). So today I am going overboard, with this mega- blog post. And yes, I promised to get back to our talk on NRM this week:). As you can see in [...]
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Posted on 02/21/11

Great conversation about non reward punishers over the past week or so. More on that later. For those of you not on facebook I thought I would post a few new pictures and videos of Feature’s little boy “Swagger.” He turned three weeks old yesterday and is a whopping five lbs! He is totally living [...]
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