When I went to Minnesota last week to take the dogs to the rehab vet specialist we also did a Canine Good Citizen(CGC)/Community Canine (CGCA )test to raise money for my friend’s foster dog and his veterinary expenses. We had Read more…
Something interesting happened after the post. We hosted a WCRL rally trial on August 23rd. Griffin is not allowed to be running yet so we did the Level 1 (on leash) class. I haven’t been training him on any of Read more…
I read this blog post today, “Perfection in Training” which is about taking a realistic look at the situation when a dog is ‘perfect’ in training but not in competition (or real life – I hear it a lot in Read more…
We went to Minnesota again to visit the excellent rehab vet and help our friend Megan with a work project. The travel went well and once we actually left, the traveling was more relaxed than our first trip. We attempted Read more…
In the past I rarely used a dog to help with demonstrations. Concerns: Part of it was that my dogs weren’t really appropriate (Blaze – unpredictable/impulsive, Luna – nervous, Griffin – not trained in manners), part of it is that my Read more…
My first few attempts at this post were 5x longer. Even with only one flight experience I learned a lot. Read more about our adventure here. In the past I had said I would absolutely never fly a large dog Read more…
Griffin has been on restricted activity all month. We managed to still do a lot of training – it just was the things I should probably do rather than the things that are more fun to work on. It’s been Read more…
Last weekend we had Dr. Julia Tomlinson come to present to us about dog health and ‘sports medicine’ type things. She was an excellent at presenting and interacting with all of the the people and dog attendees. She’s also very Read more…
Friday was “Take Your Dog to Work Day.” There’s a nice picture of Blaze and Griffin at work with their friend Marsh. My dogs think that’s great. They get to go to work with me most of the time. When Read more…
Before our spring adventures we found out about an injury that Griffin has had for a long time. We elected to wait to do treatment until our after planned activities – otherwise he would have had to stay home doing Read more…