Respecting the Value
While writing my last post about value building in Crate Games I was reminded of a post I answered about using a food toy such as the Tug It toy or other container with food in it. One reader on a forum asked; Why not [...]
Crate Games and the Question of Value
I got a question on my YouTube site last week about Crate Games, but for some geek-type reason unknown to me, my response never gets through, so I thought, why not blog about it? Here is the original question; I have been using crate games [...]
2×2 Weave Pole Training Discoveries
Recently I responded to a post on a forum about someone struggling with their 2x2 training and wondering what they did wrong (or perhaps was the method flawed and not appropriate for all dogs). Obviously I feel the method works wonderfully for all dogs but [...]
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 [...]
What’s Wrong with this Picture?
Poor Buzzy, too polite for his own good. He wouldn't want to disturb anyone or anything in life. So when DeCaff decided she was going to take over his bed this morning, Buzzy happily accepted he was going to have his morning snooze in hers. [...]
Progress Not Perfection
As many of you know I am pretty big into continuing education. I am constantly enrolled in some course trying to learn something. At this time of year I end up having more time to digest some of this great information. One of the coaching groups [...]
Colouring Outside the Lines
Yesterday I finished the last of 4 days teaching foundation handling workshops. A great group of enthusiastic students with a varied range of experience. Some handlers brand new to agility while others were coming back for a refresher after a year or so of trialing [...]
Ever So Close!
Well my last agility event for 2010 has been put to bed. Encore and I had the honour of representing Canada at the American Kennel Club Invitational last weekend. The annual event has 5 of the highest pointed dogs of each breed that competed in [...]
The Question of Education
This is going to be a random collection of thoughts about Education. My series in my newsletter entitle "The Good Student" has, a bit like, Ruff Love, gotten some misinterpretations that I want to clear up. I do not condone abusive teachers or instructors that [...]
Learning Styles
Tomorrow I will be sending out the third instalment in my series “On Being a Good Student”. This is going out to all of you that are subscribers to my newsletter (if you are not a subscriber you can sign up on the right hand [...]
Visualization; Can You See It?
Over the weekend John Cullen and I did our first webinar for our group of students that signed up for Pre-Competition Routine course. This first webinar was on Visualization. We had a lot of really excellent questions posted to our members area. Some were by [...]
Lessons from Oz
Many years ago during my first trip to New Zealand I cracked up when I heard the handlers refer to a set of weave poles as the "weavers". The concept stuck with me and both Encore and Feature's weave cue for the weave poles is "w-e-a-v-e-r-s!". [...]
