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/2009/11/sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice-thats-what-girls-are-made-of/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/11/sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice-thats-what-girls-are-made-of/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:21:46 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2230 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. [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/11/sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice-thats-what-girls-are-made-of/feed/ 16 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/11/why-boys-are-icky/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/11/why-boys-are-icky/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:35:29 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2199 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 for 3 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/11/why-boys-are-icky/feed/ 62 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/helen-king-on-structure-evaluation/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/helen-king-on-structure-evaluation/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:35:49 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2153 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 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/helen-king-on-structure-evaluation/feed/ 18 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/on-picking-my-puppy/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/on-picking-my-puppy/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:35:50 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2127 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 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/on-picking-my-puppy/feed/ 16 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/puppies-you-just-hafta-have/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/puppies-you-just-hafta-have/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:55:52 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2096 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 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/puppies-you-just-hafta-have/feed/ 10 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/or-is-it/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/or-is-it/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:48:22 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2091 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 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/or-is-it/feed/ 23 http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/love-at-first-sight-it-is-a-must/ http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/love-at-first-sight-it-is-a-must/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:35:01 +0000 Susan http://susangarrettdogagility.com/?p=2075 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 [...]]]> http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/10/love-at-first-sight-it-is-a-must/feed/ 52