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. 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. 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 [...]
The Fix is on for Feature
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 [...]
Sorting Through a Few Problems
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 [...]
More from the NW Regionals
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 [...]
Weaving In Washington
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 & [...]
Party Crasher at Novice Camp
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 [...]
I Don't Get It . . .
So I am looking over my registrations for the upcoming Novice camp this week and I don't quite get it. Why do people trip over themselves to get into a masters camp (we have been full for some time for our July Masters camp) but [...]
An Epidemic of "Buck Fever"
My observations from the Ontario regionals this week can be summed up by a comment I am borrowing from a friend. I was talking to a business colleague yesterday and he used the phrase "Buck Fever." He spoke about how a marksman on the practice [...]
Susan Salo Workshop At Say Yes
Susan Salo is here for the next week, although a few of us are sneaking out on the weekend to support our one and only USDAA trial in Ontario. Susan has been coming around here so long now, I am sure our absence won't be [...]
