Exercising the Dogs
Keeping in the theme of the week, today I am going to give you a brief run down on some of the activities I use to keep my dogs fit throughout the year. Before I do though I will mention that I like to give [...]
Retrieve Games
Okay my intention was to do a quick video and post this little clip with the rest of my exercise thoughts today. However, even though I have a ton of stuff to do, I got carried away with the editing and the entire project took [...]
Fido Fitness
I had a question last week about what I do to keep my dogs in shape for competition. First of all, it is great that people are thinking about their dog's fitness level. It doesn't matter if you are a serious agility competitor or a weekend [...]
Weave Pole Spacing
There has been much debate about the "best" spacing between weave poles. In Europe all the weave pole bases I have seen have been on 24" centres. I don't know if they ever where different or how we here in North America started with have [...]
Swinging With The Dog
There have been a few questions since I posted my National's standard runs about turning my dog away from me on the contacts. It occurred when my dog raced up the dogwalk on my left arm and had to turn away from me into a [...]
Catching Up to Last Week
So back from the USDAA regional last weekend and I will write about it later, but for now I am going to post the last of my Canadian Nationals videos. This is the 2 standard classes that where offered. Take a look at the standard [...]
A Better View of Jumpers!
So far this week I have showed you each girl's Steeplechase runs, Encore's Gambler's and errrh ummm "jumper's" run. So to redeem myself I will post Feature's two Jumpers runs from the Canadian Nationals. Day one she had the fastest time during this first run [...]
Looking for Clues in a Jumpers Debacle
Very few of my runs are "flawless." I do have screw ups just like anyone else, but at last weekend's Canadian Nationals I had a lulu of a fiasco, the likes of which I have not experienced in a while. Encore and I are pretty [...]
Harvesting the Fruits of Training
Back in November of last year, I wrote about how I felt the need to work on my dog's Gambling Skills. The post was called "Getting Old Fashioned". My winter project was to grow my dog's skills so that the Gamblers class was not going [...]
AAC Nationals Steeplechase
Well the 9th Canadian National Agility Championships have been put to bed. No I did not "win" the overall championship, but I did have a great weekend. The event was really well run, the organizers thought of just about everything, right down to having packages [...]
Canadian Nationals Agility Championships
This morning we head up to Ottawa for the Canadian National Agility Championships. This would be the ninth year for this event. It is different than any other National Championship that I am aware of, not only in that consistency is crucial, but also the [...]
Peaceful Success
Yesterday I started explaining my thoughts on the evolution of ourselves as competitors. Remember Stage one was the "Romance Stage" where ignorance is bliss and we get extreme joy just watching our dog being able to do a sequence of 2 or 3 jumps in [...]
