Today kicks off the first day of the AAC Nationals. John and I did some sightseeing yesterday with John and Lynda Hill and all our dogs (well, the ones that we have out here in Calgary). It was a wonderful day in the Rockies as [...]
In her third and final instalment (for now:)), Helen shares some of the key lessons she has learned up to this point of her journey with her pankin' pants poodle puppy Uppity. At one point when I was very frustrated with Uppity's slow progress, I [...]
In my last post "Stressing in the Real World" my friend Helen opened up about the ups and downs of training her challenging Standard Poodle puppy "Uppity." Today we learn what the keys where for Helen's turn about. Once again here is Helen . . [...]
For the last six months or so I have been observing my friend's struggles and successes with her new Standard Poodle puppy. I thought her story was one that could help a lot of people so I ask her to share it with all of [...]
Recently our recall e-class came up against where "Stress" fits into the list of distractions you need to work through. I have written several blog posts on stress over the 2 years I have been blogging, if you do a search on "stress" you will [...]
We will be leaving for the Canadian National Agility Championships next Wednesday AM so the countdown begins. Five days out so I have to squeeze in some training between the rest of my life. Today's to do list: Morning work out (I have been naughty [...]
This is the final instalment of the interview I did in 1998. I hope it has been as much fun for you looking back as it was for me! Question 11. What are your training/teaching/judging involvements in Agility now? i.e. how often do you train [...]
Thanks for your patience everyone as we had some maintenance done here on the blog. I don't know or pretend to understand the geekdom behind the scenes world, I am just grateful for Jason taking care of us all. And speaking of technicalities we just [...]
I can't tell you how excited, proud, grateful, happy I am when I read comments like Esther's this morning; Five minutes might seem like a blink of an eye but even my snapping turtles can move amazing distances in just 5 minutes [...]
You may have noticed a bit of a change to the layout of the blog as Jason added a very clear and obvious icon to click for Recallers to enter into the members only section of the blog (by "members" I mean those that have [...]
I received this letter from a student yesterday that I thought it was well worth posting it to all of you. Not just because of the uber nice things she says about me, but to put all of this focus on recalls into perspective. Hi [...]
Here is some fun. This is an interview that was done with me in 1998. It was for an Agility Magazine (Agility Spotlight) that was in existence back then but it didn't make it. I came across this interview and I thought it might be [...]
