Avatar photo

About Susan Garrett

Susan Garrett is a world-renowned dog trainer with over 30 years of experience and multiple national and world championship titles in dog agility. She is the founder of DogsThat and host of the Shaped by Dog podcast, where she has helped hundreds of thousands of dog owners worldwide build calm, connected dogs that are a joy to live with through games-based, positive training.

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 [...]

By |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 [...]

By |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 [...]

By |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 [...]

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