I think this may be like suffering through home movies of someone elses kids. Just be grateful that I edited down to less than two minutes. It was Encore's birthday on Saturday so Friday she got to run agility, (Saturday I had a full day [...]
The trial I was at on Friday was a small one. There were two standard runs and in the second one, Feature was the only 26" dogs (video included below). However with this very small trial there where still 3 people (that I knew of) [...]
Here is a comment posted to yesterday's blog that I think is worth highlighting. It came in from Trish who asked: Wondering… as a handler that is ‘watched’ every time she competes - what pressure do you feel (externally or internally) to make each run [...]
John and I are living in this tiny little apt above a garage right now. We have been here for about 8 months while we are having a new house built. We used to let students use it when they were here for camps or [...]
I got a note from a student recently that was thrilled with her performance at a weekend trial, earning her first ever "double Q" in an AKC trial, the first step toward her MACH, gathering a boat load of mach points in the process as [...]
Canadian agility lost one of it's very special dogs yesterday with the passing of Sarah Mairs' brilliant Golden Retriever "Gabby". She was only 10 1/2 years old. Gabby was an amazing flyball dog, one of the fastest "non-Border Collies" of her day and brilliantly represented [...]
I have had a few of you email me privately and one post to my blog why I thought a "fool-proof method of running contacts was unlikely." I don't pretend to have all of the dog training answers and I am not a pessimist about [...]
Earlier this week John and I had to spend the day in the car running errands an hour or more away from home. Yes of course he drove, I do love me life. As he was driving I was thinking about all of the technological [...]
I am continuing the topic I started yesterday, describing how I have emotionally coped with the advancing progression of my dog's lives. Denial and Grieving. The day after losing Stoni I had to leave for 3 weeks of teaching in Australia. Stoni had been sick for [...]
It has to do with the oneness you become with that dog on the agility field. You are a team. The time and dedication invested in a relationship to reach that degree of unity only helps to fuel the burning pain of loss as your time together draws to a close.
I talk to me dogs. I don’t mean I talk to my dogs the way normal people do, saying things like -- ”yeah boy, get the stick”. I mean I talk to them like I expect, at any moment, they are about to answer back. I don't [...]
This is a great read by a seven your old kid, really you have to check it out. In it he says "I believe everyone is weird in their own way." I am about to prove it. For a light-hearted change of pace I thought I [...]
