We hosted a World Cynosport Rally (WCRL) trial last weekend. It was our first time ever hosting a 2 day trial – and it was easier than we expected! I had all three dogs participate – Griffin did well but not our best, mostly because I was distracted. We broke Read more…
Viktor is now 24 months old. We have been addressing his ‘valgus deviation of both front limbs’ since he was a young puppy. Our rehab vet in Minnesota wanted to see him to evaluate his elbows and make a plan for moving forward. On Monday we went to an eye Read more…
I’ve been judging for the World Cynosport Rally program for about two years. That judging has primarily been at our facility and so that we could keep entry costs as low as possible for our exhibitors. A few times I’ve been asked to judge elsewhere but usually those requests come Read more…
One more “Griffin is the best” post is necessary. On Friday we did an AKC obedience trial. He was great. We need to do more training but also were able to show many things we can do well. We did Novice, Pre-Novice, Beginner Novice, and Rally Novice. We got a Read more…
Apparently all I have to share is Griffin doing fun things. I promise the young dogs are getting trained and that I intend to post things useful to my behavior/pet training clients! All retriever breeds have a “Working Certificate” test through their national breed club. These tests are supposed to Read more…
When Griffin was about a year old we (re)met a group of people that became dog training friends. I was interested in obedience (AKC) and agility (CPE, USDAA). Their interest was in an obscure sport called MondioRing. Seven years later, they’re competing/preparing to compete and 2 weekends ago they hosted Read more…
A few weeks ago we had Denise Fenzi back again. We had a half day on engagement, half day of heeling games, and Sunday was ‘Handler’s Choice.’ I’ve seen Denise present twice before, but it’s been a few years. It’s fun to see so many people enthusiastic about training. Denise Read more…
Only a few weeks until our training friend Fanny Gott is here for a 2 day trial-prep seminar! We did the online class version of this a few years ago and loved it. Rally: We’ve been doing some trial prep for a change. Last weekend we did a rally fun Read more…
A week before we left we did AKC agility. Our first time in Excellent for jumpers and then we got our last Open Standard pass. This let us jump into the level 3 (of 3) in Sweden. Over on the left, you can see the course map for that first Read more…
In the middle of the trip we had a chance to attend an agility seminar! This wasn’t a planned part of our trip but was a great opportunity . We did two half days with Isabelle Emanuelsson and Jouni Orenius. The set up was excellent – the seminar host had two Read more…