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Today is all about the baby dog! I have some video highlights of her weekend at the AAC Nationals. For all of you on the recallers side, we still don't have a lesson up for you today so I am going to give you the [...]
Today is all about the baby dog! I have some video highlights of her weekend at the AAC Nationals. For all of you on the recallers side, we still don't have a lesson up for you today so I am going to give you the [...]
We arrived home from the AAC Nationals at 2 AM this morning. My dogs ran wonderfully all weekend long, both of them. Between the 7 events (Steeplechase finals, 2 Standard, 2 Jumpers, 2 Gamblers) the two dogs won 5 of them. Feature won both Standards [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This weekend was another fabulous Canada Cup competition. And it was wow, amazing as it is every year. There is always the threat that this event will go away as entries are inconsistent at best. The weekend is so much work for our hosts Susan [...]
Rushing around making sure everything works before we open up registration to the new e-course, I am still hoping it will happen before the end of this week, cross your fingers. We had our CKC Agility Team Canada practice last week followed by a fundraiser [...]
Some of you have noted that what was valuable to your dog as a puppy is not the same today. That is great actually, since most of what was valuable as a puppy with my Border Collies involved chasing things away from me and that [...]