Puppy Preocuppiedatiousness
Feature's puppy has taken over my life. I just can't get any work done he is sooo darn cute, I can just sit and watch him all day long . . . and I do! He is no longer going by his puppy name of [...]
Punishment In Today’s Dog Training
I thought it was time to address my thoughts on the use, abuse, misuse and the misunderstanding of the “non reward marker” (NRM) in dog training A non reward marker is usually a word or phrase that when spoken to your dog, lets him know [...]
The Singleton Puppy
I am writing this blog post today not from a position of a great depth of knowledge but reporting from two singular experiences. I am hoping anyone reading this that has gone through a similar situation will offer their perspective. I suppose for many of [...]
Sid the Kid
Those of you that are not on Facebook, that were unable to follow the links in my last post to the “surprise” here it is. Last November, while teaching in Australia I made arrangements for Feature to be bred to a lovely male that had [...]
Big Announcements for a Monday Morning
So two big announcements. First. I have a new facebook page. Big deal you say. Here is the deal. But I have printed today's blog post on this new page. It contains I big reveal by me, something I haven't shared publicly yet but I [...]
January in Canada
I hope all of you have had a great start to your new year. As you may have noticed I have been hibernating up here in Canada. Truthfully I haven't been doing much except spending time with John and my dogs. This is the first [...]
The Triple Crown In Louisville Kentucky
Wow, wow, wow what a week my dogs and I have had. We just wrapped up the USDAA Nationals. This year it was a 5 day event in a new venue in Louisville, Kentucky. Great show site, yes it needed some work on the footing [...]
Greetings From Germany
Early morning start tomorrow means I can't write much. Team Canada is the first team to practice at the FCI World Championship venue so we have a breakfast call at 5:30 AM and on the bus at 6:15 AM. Here is a video I put [...]
Feet Flag
All ready to head out to Germany. The girls are prepared, my back is back to 100%, bring on the world! Getting into the spirit of the event I had my toes painted. Last year I coloured my hair to match my dog. That didn't [...]
Head Halters VS A Flat Buckle Collar
Today I wrote a post for a training list about head halters being my tool of choice in training. I thought I would share it here with all of you. Don't get me wrong, I want all of my dogs on a flat collar-- it [...]
“Back” At It!
I have been away from the blog for the past week or so -- mostly a forced absence. My back decided it was a good time for me to "take a break." My back has dictated forced "downtime" in my life in the past. Of [...]
Featuring Feature!
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 [...]
