Some great comments following my post yesterday. I love when my own students don't agree with me! Not that I want a lot of arguments when I am teaching, but it is brilliant if you question opinion, that makes everyone better. If you push me [...]
Writing the post yesterday got me thinking about raising those two puppies. I realized I actually was also training a 3rd puppy at the same time. When I brought Speki home to train I actually already had a 6 month old Border Collie that was [...]
I love to play head games with my dogs and I know they love it to. I don't mean this is a cruel way but rather in a challenging way. I teach something through shaping with lots of reinforcement. Let's say there are 10 critical elements to [...]
This is a positive reinforcement lesson and it is very funny. It was sent to me this week and I thought you all would enjoy it. Have a great weekend everyone! Sorry you have to go to youtube to watch it as for some reason [...]
Those words should never be uttered out of anyone's mouth once we get this monster list of rolling. Don't be shy there are no wrong answers. What do you do with your puppy? What skills do you teach your young dog. I don't mean tricks [...]
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 [...]
