On the Home Stretch
Ten days of teaching down, here in British Columbia, one to go! I am here in Kelowna where I teach a One Jump workshop today. I just have to give a shout out to all of the people that came out to the workshops in Vancouver. [...]
Impressive Dog Training
It takes alot to impress me but this video taken in the 1950's sure did. Enjoy! Today I am grateful for vintage video like this one, it really is inspiring!
A First for Agility?
I could be wrong but I think this could be the first of it's kind. I have a friend that is currently doing her PhD on injuries to dogs competing in the sport of agility. Before you think this is just someone out [...]
Making Great Strides In Just One Day
Good day yesterday in Vancouver. Again a really keen group working in masters handling and luckily for me I had a large number of observers at the workshop as well (I think there was about 20 or so of them). Being day two of the [...]
Hanging On to Good Behaviour
I have been on the road this time exactly one week and already I am seeing some "CRAP" from my dogs. Crap is a word that I have often used while teaching if I don't like what my students are rewarding. ". . .well that [...]
Skinner Was Right
Reading the comments on my blog while in my hotel room last night, I came across this one from Theresa. Theresa was just at one of the workshop a couple of days ago and what a nut. She certainly added to the atmosphere of the [...]
New Experiences for Traveling Dogs
My dog are country folk. While at home, life is pretty quiet. We walk on our own 28 acres so do not meet up with new dogs. There are few children that come to visit and those that do, are very well behaved. Almost all [...]
Sleepless Near Seattle
Ok a the title is a bit lame I know, but I flew over 3,000 km to get to Vancouver, and being just over 3 hours from Seattle, I just had to do it. I have now finished two days of workshops here on the [...]
The Necessity of Failure to Create Great Success
Take a moment to watch this awesome video, it is really revealing. I love it. I especially like what Danica Patrick has to say. "You're driving your car and you feel freightened a little bit. We bump up against that feeling as much as we [...]
65 Unique Tug Toy Ideas!
Well here it is, our list of weird tug toys suggestions. Thank you to everyone who contributed, we should all be proud! If any of these items spark another idea for any of you, send it along and I will continue to build the master [...]
17 Down, 14 to Go!
Hey a big shout out to all that have added your ideas to yesterday's blog on unique Tuggers. Keep them coming everyone and I will add my own later this week. I have also been getting a great response to this month's "31 Dog Training [...]
Tug Drive
Well Day 3 of Tweener camp yesterday was as awesome as Days 1 & 2. The highlights are numerous. One of the cool thing was the tug drive that has been created and maintained by students that have struggled with it in the past. I [...]
