Agility Trial Success Tip #5: Become your own coach when none other is available to you. Head to the trial with your coaches advice and your own planning to create a consistent event routine at the event. These lists include hints, pre and post run [...]
Agility Trial Success Tip #4: Kennel for comfort and safety. Set your dog up for success by focusing on the location you choose to crate your dog. Event stress can be minimized by choosing a crating area that presents the best possible environment for yourself, [...]
Agility Trial Success Tip #3: Fuel Your Body Plan meals to fuel your body. When you plan ahead you won’t be tempted to eat convenience food being served at the trial. I choose to drink a juice for breakfast, a smoothie at lunch and a [...]
Agility Trial Success Tip #2: Packing lists… have them! I have several lists depending upon the trial I am heading to. We can create a master list here. In the comments below share your agility trial packing list. “Before anything else, preparation is the key [...]
Swagger and I are preparing for our upcoming trip to FCI World Championships in Zaragoza, Spain representing Subaru Agility Team Canada. In my preparations this week, I gave my "agility trial checklist" a once over to see if there were any needed "tweaks". As I was [...]
The results of our 2016 Recallers Video Contest are in! Over the past week, you have narrowed down the fifteen wonderful videos in our finals to the top three. Each dog we bring into our home presents us with new challenges, we get frustrated, we [...]
The Championship Round The "Grand Finale" of our 2016 Recallers Video Contest is here. The top six videos as voted by you are competing for THREE winning spots. Our video contest celebrates our Recallers. A group of people who decided they wanted dogs that listen [...]
Day Three of our Recallers Video Contest Today starts the third and final round of our semi-finals! Scroll down for the videos and pick your two favourites. If you haven’t already done so, you can still view the videos from Day One and Day Two. [...]
Day Two of our Recallers Video Contest Wow, voting has been hot! We have five more great dog stories for you today, just scroll down to watch the videos and cast your vote for the two that touch you the most. Deciding on two is [...]
Anyone reading this blog who has raised a dog has been there at one point or another. Frustrated as $h!% when our dog just doesn’t co-operate. Sometimes we plead and that works, sometimes, we bribe and that works… but more often than not the dog [...]
This weekend something bizarre happened. My otherwise reliable agility dog Swagger suddenly did the exact opposite of what I cued him to do. It was like he was hearing conflicting cues and chose to listen to someone else. It wasn’t until I looked at my [...]
This weekend I will be hosting something that I am pretty sure has never been done in the agility world before. It is a three-day seminar with 8 agility handlers (most of which have been extremely successful in agility with past dogs) and the entire [...]
