Rolling out a Big Adventure
17 years young but still loves a great game! As much as we would like to prevent it, our agility dogs do grow old. As a matter of fact all dogs grow old, even if they were not once agility dogs. :) If [...]
Jumping into Height Changes for All Dogs in Agility?
Small but mighty - 9 1/2" Shelby winning in the 12" class in 1998 at the age of 10 years old. When I think back on to my first years in agility with my Jack Russell Terrier "Shelby," it makes me happy to [...]
Life’s Little Detours: Making Outrageously Tasty Lemonade
According to my booking calendar (planned more than a year ago) I should be in Germany right now. I had made my decision at that time, that I would not be applying to Canada’s FCI team to travel to South Africa in 2013 [...]
Dog Agility Championships: Bring On Snooker & Gamblers
The Games Championship is comprised of two Games: Snooker and Gamblers. If you are really keen to learn more about each game, there is a briefing written up on the WAO home page. Snooker is a game that most people who are new to agility [...]
International Agility Championship . . . The First Time All Over Again
I just got home from my participating in my second WAO (World Agility Open) event held in Oviedo, Spain. Some consider this one of the four "world championship" type agility events; FCI in October, European Open in July, WAO in May and IFCS held every [...]
Your Dog Recovering From Severe Trauma . . . Is There A Baseline?
As many of you will know my then 8 year old Border Collie "Encore" suffered a major traumatic event 3 months ago when she collapsed seizing one morning which could not be stopped. With good medical care and the outpouring of prayers from this dog [...]
What Does Internationalization in Dog Agility Really Mean?
Today is the first “Dog Agility Blog Event for 2013” and the topic myself and other dog agility bloggers are writing on is “Internationalization.” When I first saw the topic I thought to Attending my first ever World Championship as a spectator in Finland in [...]
Let’s Change Lives!
Those of you who have been tuning in over the last few weeks have heard a lot of talk about my course, the Five Minute Formula for a Brilliant Recall (Recallers). We've gotten a lot of questions, and I promise, they will be answered in [...]
Recallers 4.0 Video Contest Winners Announced!
The time has come to announce the winners of this years Recallers Video Contest! We've had a great couple of weeks watching all of your videos, choosing our favorites, and reading your comments. Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who took the time to [...]
Recallers 4.0 Video Contest – Final Videos FACE-OFF!
Today is the day! The Top 6 videos from our Recallers Video Competition will now FACE-OFF to determine who is the official winner of the 3rd Annual Recallers Video Contest! Let me begin by saying that the makers of these 6 videos should be incredibly [...]
Recallers 4.0 Video Contest Voting – Day 3!
Day 3 of the Recallers 4.0 video contest is upon us! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to come to the blog to vote and leave your feedback in the comment section. We agree with everyone - it is hard to choose [...]
Recallers 4.0 Video Contest Voting – Day 2!
Wow! In our first day of voting yesterday, we had over 1,000 votes (and counting) for our first five videos! I can tell by your comments that you agree - it was hard to narrow down the great videos to just 15! Each videos is [...]
