Feature playing sit-stay games with distractions at 18 weeks of age. To follow up on a post from last week, I want to clear up any misunderstandings, I am not suggesting you wait until your dog is three or four years old [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Canadians! Well, the trial in Memphis was a success but a very wet, muddy and a bit cold one (the weather, not the people). The people in Memphis were very hospitable, Lynda and I had a lot of [...]
Last night Lynda (my friend and one our very capable Say Yes instructors) and I were on our way to a trial in Memphis, Tn. While driving, we had a discussion that made me think about a few tales I have been told recently (I [...]
You may think with the title of this blog I just stumbled upon the answer to the perfectly reliable running contact, or perhaps a new line of agility clothing that contours your butt to look three sizes smaller than real-life, or maybe I [...]
Fun around the weekend here as there was a sun shower that left a beautiful double rainbow over head. I was out with my dogs and a sun shower suddenly popped up. As luck would have it, I had my camera with me so here [...]
The title of my blog today was taken from a comment left yesterday. How amazing it is for us that our dogs will give us second chances and do it without judgement of our previous actions. Sure, if you have given them reason, your dog [...]
Well anyone of you that has been reading my blog for any length of time knows the answer to that question. Without a doubt, my great agility dogs all start out and end up being great family pets first and foremost. I was asked to [...]
First of all a very special thanks to all of you who demonstrated your generosity by donating to the Valencia children in Vancouver (please see Friday's blog post). No this was not a scam, no my blog had not been hi-jacked, yes this is a [...]
Today's blog is not dog training related nor even dog related. I would like to relay an email I received from my sister in Vancouver on Wednesday morning. In the midst of supper on Tuesday evening my sister's oldest son received a phone call from his 16 [...]
To follow up on yesterday’s post today I will describe some lulu screw ups caused by my disrespect of the power of the clicker. To quote Bob Bailey “What you click is what you get.” Now this sounds pretty simple but you really need to [...]
The precision of a clicker was needed when teaching Twister how to "pray." One of the things I am asked about by newcomers to our program is why we do not use a clicker very much. After-all, my website is www.clickerdogs.com you know! [...]
I am sitting at the airport Monday morning waiting to board our plane back home. Our 2nd FCI Championship experience is over. I will post some of my runs later but unfortunately I haven’t been able to see my last run as it was accidentally [...]
