What a week it has been! Yesterday concluded our last day of voting for our Top 20 videos in the Puppy Peaks Video Contest, and today, the top 8 videos chosen over the last 4 days will FACE OFF for the Grand Prize! We received [...]
Day 4 of voting is upon us! We've had nearly 1,500 people vote for our first 15 videos...can you believe it? Thank you to everyone for voting, and a special thanks to our talented videographers for providing us with such beautiful entertainment over the last [...]
Well let me start off by saying, "WOW!" Once again, the members of our wonderful community have managed to surprise me with your talent...not only as dog trainers, but as video makers as well! Over the last two weeks, we have been running our 1st [...]
The Games Championship is comprised of two Games: Snooker and Gamblers. If you are really keen to learn more about each game, there is a briefing written up on the WAO home page. Snooker is a game that most people who are new to agility [...]
"If you aren't learning you are dying" I am sure I have seen that quote somewhere before but for the life of me, I can't find it who gets the credit for it. I do love the quote, each of use has to make a [...]
Today, I feel like I am only barely scratching the surface on the topic of tugging :)). Why Does My Dog Need To Tug? You may be asking yourself why the heck is tugging so darned important anyway? Personally, I believe all dogs should learn [...]
Swagger "working it" with his toy while I pound away at my computer today. There have been some great reports written on my last blogpost after the last newsletter. I am happy to see so many of you are starting to exam the triggers [...]
What's Missing In Our Foundation Dog Training ? The laws of science have taught us all how to use reinforcement to shape our dogs’ responses. As we train a dog we are actually building behaviour, like a little girl with her glue gun making crafts or [...]
Shelby on the seesaw, check out the dinosaur Cross Over obstacle in the foreground. Today I had a thought… How could my life have been different “If I knew then what I know now?” Think about that for yourself, what would be different? What [...]
There were some great comments on my tugging post yesterday as to why you thought long duration tugs had the potential for more focus for the environment while short bursts of tug games alternating with other responses created great attention for the handler. You pretty [...]
Tugging is a big part of my dog training, I hope it is also a big part of yours. It is a great reinforcer for most dogs. For those dogs that are not currently big fans of tugging, it is a skill that be cultivated [...]
Today we re-open registrations for Puppy Peaks, but just for the holiday season. Over the past two months we have had many requests to re-open the program so today is your day! When I thought about what to write for the blog, I thought who can [...]
