Very few of my runs are "flawless." I do have screw ups just like anyone else, but at last weekend's Canadian Nationals I had a lulu of a fiasco, the likes of which I have not experienced in a while. Encore and I are pretty [...]
Back in November of last year, I wrote about how I felt the need to work on my dog's Gambling Skills. The post was called "Getting Old Fashioned". My winter project was to grow my dog's skills so that the Gamblers class was not going [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. My dogs were amazing, as a handler, I let them down in the early rounds but we [...]
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. Some of you may have heard me say this before. 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 [...]
So here I am trying to remind Feature exactly what are my expectations on her contacts. I trained Feature differently then my previous dogs in that I introduced the running contact before I did the stopped. With Encore I had a running A Frame and [...]
I was away for a few days and since I was gone we had a bit of a Twitter-gone-mad problem here on the blog. It is all fixed now so everyone should be able to read this post without an issue. Okay, so I got [...]
I hope you all received the newsletter that I sent out earlier today where I wrote about the Contact Seminar I gave out west. If not, sorry, I don't know if I can re-send it. If you are signed up to the newsletter and you [...]
The title of this post sounds a bit like an old Jimmy Stewart movie to me (okay, now I am dating myself!). Regardless, I thought I would catch you up on some of my teaching in Washington State last month. I had a Contacts & [...]
Well Novice camp started off with some excitement as this young lady decided she needed to lay her eggs right at the end of my opening sequence! Every year at the end of May-first week of June, the turtles come up from [...]
