Wild and Crazy Dogs!
13 years ago, eyes told it all about then 7 week old Buzzy. Yesterday I wrote a post for a clicker list in response to a question to helping out-of-control dogs. I decided this post needed to be shared with all of you [...]
Profound Thinking at Skills Camp
We had another great group in for skills camp this weekend. Lots of pivotal break throughs for many campers. We had some extremely experienced students and some brand new ones but all really nice people, so it makes teaching almost effortless. My staff were as [...]
Contact & Directional Questions Answered
Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few questions come in about my contacts, so here are some answers for you all 1) My "Swing " cue means "turn away from me" it does not necessarily mean turn left. As a matter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Swinging With The Dog
There have been a few questions since I posted my National's standard runs about turning my dog away from me on the contacts. It occurred when my dog raced up the dogwalk on my left arm and had to turn away from me into a [...]
Catching Up to Last Week
So back from the USDAA regional last weekend and I will write about it later, but for now I am going to post the last of my Canadian Nationals videos. This is the 2 standard classes that where offered. Take a look at the standard [...]
Dissecting Punishment
One of last week's blog posted caused a bit of a stir amoungst some of you so I will deal with a couple of comments that were made.  From Nelci  AWESOME!! Love the picture of Feature on the Teeter. I do have some [...]
Slowing Things Down
I felt a little badly that my last post was all about Encore while Feature had a great weekend at Canada Cup herself. So to alleviate some guilt, I had to post Feature's run for you all as well. Just so you know this isn't [...]
Perfection
I don't have a lot of time today, tons to do before Tuesday, but I had to post this run from the weekend. Canada Cup was again fantastic. Â My dogs were amazing, as a handler, I let them down in the early rounds but we [...]
Testing Feature
To evaluate Feature’s understanding of her job on the contacts I needed to set her up for a planned failure. This was going to take a few days for me to set the stage. I spend several sessions over the course of the week reinforcing [...]
Irritation is Motivation
Irritation is motivation. Some of you may have heard me say this before. Â When you are really irritated by something you will take action to change it. Those of you that are overweight right now are that way because it doesn't bug you enough. When [...]
