Wow, wow, wow what a week my dogs and I have had. We just wrapped up the USDAA Nationals. This year it was a 5 day event in a new venue in Louisville, Kentucky. Great show site, yes it needed some work on the footing [...]
Have you ever walked into a room and then forgot what you went in there for? You search around, can’t figure out what you need so you leave and then 10 minutes later you remember and you go and get it? How do you deal [...]
My first run at the World Championships was going to teach or shall I say re-teach me a very important lesson and that was; read the course maps carefully and read the numbers as you do your walk through. I was running on team. Canada [...]
I returned home from Germany late Sunday night and I arrived home with one of my airplane colds:(. Yesterday I slept . . . a lot! I have so much to share with all of you about my experiences at the World Championships in Germany [...]
Early morning start tomorrow means I can't write much. Team Canada is the first team to practice at the FCI World Championship venue so we have a breakfast call at 5:30 AM and on the bus at 6:15 AM. Here is a video I put [...]
All ready to head out to Germany. The girls are prepared, my back is back to 100%, bring on the world! Getting into the spirit of the event I had my toes painted. Last year I coloured my hair to match my dog. That didn't [...]
I came across this last night when I couldn't sleep. Although I did not know Jeep personally I knew of him and the great team he made with his owner Katie. I knew Katie's mother but only recently met Katie as she attended a workshop [...]
Today I wrote a post for a training list about head halters being my tool of choice in training. I thought I would share it here with all of you. Don't get me wrong, I want all of my dogs on a flat collar-- it [...]
Well, we leave for Germany for the FCI championships in just 6 days. Our team flies out on Sunday evening from various airports across Canada and we all meet up in Frankfurt when we arrive Monday morning. My dogs and I are ready to go. [...]
I have been away from the blog for the past week or so -- mostly a forced absence. My back decided it was a good time for me to "take a break." My back has dictated forced "downtime" in my life in the past. Of [...]
So why is it that after those killer work outs that the other girls were sore and I wasn't? As little as only four years ago I used to get really sore just like anyone else. You know that "ooh-don't-touch-me-there-and-I-can't-barely-get-down-to-the-toilet-sore-muscles." It was normal, but not [...]
So last week a few of my students got together here for a Say Yes "holiday." I have to quote "holiday" since for many of you, it wouldn't be your idea of a "holiday." We had my favourite Scottish born fitness guru come to kick [...]
