Thank you everyone for voting yesterday for Day 1 of the Puppy Peaks video contest! Nearly 500 people cast their votes yesterday for our videos! That's awesome! Now you see what a difficult decision it was for us to choose just 20! Just as a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
17 years young but still loves a great game! As much as we would like to prevent it, our agility dogs do grow old. As a matter of fact all dogs grow old, even if they were not once agility dogs. :) If [...]
Small but mighty - 9 1/2" Shelby winning in the 12" class in 1998 at the age of 10 years old. When I think back on to my first years in agility with my Jack Russell Terrier "Shelby," it makes me happy to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Those of you who have been tuning in over the last few weeks have heard a lot of talk about my course, the Five Minute Formula for a Brilliant Recall (Recallers). We've gotten a lot of questions, and I promise, they will be answered in [...]
The time has come to announce the winners of this years Recallers Video Contest! We've had a great couple of weeks watching all of your videos, choosing our favorites, and reading your comments. Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who took the time to [...]
