Death by Tray
I am not a sci fi fan. I have never seen a single episode of Star Trek or Star Wars however I can still appreciate the humour in this clip. It is a crack up. Warning there are some "F-bombs" dropped so it may not [...]
Perspective
Thanks to all of you for warm wishes for Encore and I at the World Championships at the end of this month. Yesterday Encore and I had a bit of a slower paced day as I prepared for camp starting today. I worked on some [...]
A New Countdown Begins
Technical problems yesterday I couldn't get this post to work. But here it is a day late! Today is September 2nd. That means only 16 days until the FCI world championships begin and only 11 days until Encore and I start our trip to Austria. [...]
Puppy Camp Success
Another puppy camp has been put to bed. What fun! It was all I thought it would be and more. Fun puppies and great students, I mean they really embraced the program. More energy by the last day on Sunday, then even the first day [...]
Belly Laughs
Today is first day of another puppy camp. I am extra excited since 19 of the 24 puppies are less than 6 month old. Little sponges at this age, really. It is amazing how much faster you can teach key dog training concepts when there [...]
Exercising the Dogs
Keeping in the theme of the week, today I am going to give you a brief run down on some of the activities I use to keep my dogs fit throughout the year. Before I do though I will mention that I like to give [...]
Retrieve Games
Okay my intention was to do a quick video and post this little clip with the rest of my exercise thoughts today. However, even though I have a ton of stuff to do, I got carried away with the editing and the entire project took [...]
Fido Fitness
I had a question last week about what I do to keep my dogs in shape for competition. First of all, it is great that people are thinking about their dog's fitness level. It doesn't matter if you are a serious agility competitor or a weekend [...]
That Once in a Lifetime Dog
What I am about to say may come across as haughty and please forgive me if it does, as it is not my intention. I want to describe for you the relationship that develops with a dog when you compete at the highest level of [...]
Treading Softly . . . not!
Wow after yesterday's response I was thinking today I would cover medi-care, hand guns laws or perhaps abortion. Thanks to everyone that wrote in on the sensitive topic. Apparent Alex Baldwin stated an opinion similar to mine recently and he too is feeling a bit of [...]
A Silver Lining or a Thunder Cloud?
Looking back I don’t think I have ever written anything on this blog that could be considered controversial. It is about the change today. Michael Vick, once the highest paid professional football player of all time, now a convicted felon, dog fighting ring-leader and reported [...]
Weave Pole Spacing
There has been much debate about the "best" spacing between weave poles. In Europe all the weave pole bases I have seen have been on 24" centres. I don't know if they ever where different or how we here in North America started with have [...]
