http://susangarrettdogagility.com Agility training for all dogs of all breeds Fri, 18 May 2012 04:09:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/05/should-you-run-or-stop-your-agility-dogs-contacts/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/05/should-you-run-or-stop-your-agility-dogs-contacts/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 16:17:30 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=8304 Running Contacts Are They For You? Do all handlers need to train their dog’s do do a running contact? I would think not. There are some people that are just not fast enough to handle a dog with running contacts; the solution is of course to train both. Any of you signed up for my [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/05/should-you-run-or-stop-your-agility-dogs-contacts/feed/ 106 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/04/contact-training-for-those-with-no-interest-in-dog-agility/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/04/contact-training-for-those-with-no-interest-in-dog-agility/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:09:24 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=8273 Weird eh? Why on earth would anyone who has no interest in dog agility want to know anything about how to train agility contact obstacles? To explain the reason let me share a story with you. Years ago John (my husband) used to travel to, and help me out at many of my seminars (he [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/04/contact-training-for-those-with-no-interest-in-dog-agility/feed/ 33 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/03/how-good-is-your-glue/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/03/how-good-is-your-glue/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:03:34 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=8126 What’s Missing In Our Foundation Dog Training ? The laws of science have taught us all how to use reinforcement to shape our dogs’ responses. As we train a dog we are actually building behaviour, like a little girl with her glue gun making crafts or . . . if you were a little girl with [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/03/how-good-is-your-glue/feed/ 134 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/02/did-i-make-a-difference/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/02/did-i-make-a-difference/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:11:33 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=8031 That question was suggested to me recently as one to think about “Susan, how would you answer that question at the end of your life.” Did I make a difference? I know my mom and dad made a difference raising 8 amazing children of their own and adopting two other equally amazing children (I won’t [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/02/did-i-make-a-difference/feed/ 101 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/09/contact-questions-answered/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/09/contact-questions-answered/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:00:04 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=1599 Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few questions come in about my contacts, so here are some answers for you all 1) My “Swing ” cue means “turn away from me” it does not necessarily mean turn left. As a matter of fact if you review the video from the post [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/09/contact-questions-answered/feed/ 0 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/dissecting-punishment/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/dissecting-punishment/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:35:30 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=1449 One of last week’s blog posted caused a bit of a stir amoungst some of you so I will deal with a couple of comments that were made.    From Nelci   AWESOME!! Love the picture of Feature on the Teeter. I do have some questions, after this “exercise” with Feature and the DW, what [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/dissecting-punishment/feed/ 14 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/irritation-is-motivation/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/irritation-is-motivation/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:02:50 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=1420 Irritation is motivation. Some of you may have heard me say this before.  When you are really irritated by something you will take action to change it. Those of you that are overweight right now are that way because it doesn’t bug you enough. When something irritates you enough your words and thoughts turn from [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/irritation-is-motivation/feed/ 13 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/the-fix-is-on-for-feature/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/the-fix-is-on-for-feature/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:07:47 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=1404 So here I am trying to remind Feature exactly what are my expectations on her contacts.   I trained Feature differently then my previous dogs in that I introduced the running contact before I did the stopped. With Encore I had a running A Frame and a stopped dogwalk for the first 2 years of [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/07/the-fix-is-on-for-feature/feed/ 9