Yesterday we took Fanny and Epic to the Chicago airport. One of the challenges of flying with bigger dogs is that not all international airports can take bigger crates – or at least not with direct flights. We got there with plenty of extra time and walked dogs around the Read more…
She swam with her breeder and dog family (including a papillon!) before she came to me – but she hasn’t had any interest in swimming. On the warmer winter days she would wade in with Griffin and today she finally went in! I love when dogs enjoy swimming – it’s Read more…
Right now our Saturday classes are extremely popular – a class of 4 and of 10 beginners in agility, 5 dogs in manners, and 5 in an intermediate agility class – plus additional private sessions. We also have to cancel for seminars, trials hosted at our building (WCRL rally and Read more…
Over the weekend we did our first seminar together! We were at the training center for a Shaping seminar with Fanny Gott. We spent some time working on her heeling and retrieve. Saturday had a lot of auditors and I was very happy with how attentive she was. And Sunday Read more…
On Wednesday we went to Gahanna High School for a special event “spread the word to end the word” day. Griffin was there to meet kids and do some tricks. There were kids doing other things – table games, wheelchair basketball, bean bag toss games, and a ‘pen’ of therapy Read more…
Click here for a past post about 4-H. I’ve been involved with the Ohio dog 4-H program since Blaze was a puppy and I did other 4-H things for many years before that. My current roles are an advisor (maybe with two clubs!) – organizing and assisting with meetings, as Read more…
We did AKC Agility on Friday. I’ve been arriving at trials too late, this time I arrived many, many hours earlier than needed. It gave me time to watch quite a few of the Excellent dogs, train my dogs (outside – the trial site was very crowded), go on a Read more…
Somehow Blaze is 15! For a dog with a not-so-great background, I had expected him to be crippled by hip dysplasia or to get hemangiosarcoma well before this point. But he’s still doing extremely well. I wish we had removed the mass on his front leg a few years ago, that’s Read more…
One of my goals for this year is to do a better job of making notes after trials and events. I need to remember to get pictures of course maps and I need to ask others to help video our runs. Griffin and I had our second trial AKC trial Read more…
Last weekend we did our first UKI agility trial at the “Senior” level. This meant we got the harder level courses. I recognize most of the people there from other trials and events but don’t really “know” many of them. I need to get brave and ask someone to take Read more…