For various agility programs dogs have to be measured at the trial to be sure they are in the correct jump height class. After you are measured a few times, you do not need to be measured again for that organization. Griffin and I did our first AKC trial over Read more…
CleanRun is one of my favorite dog companies. They do lots of interesting things. “CleanRun” is the name of the magazine but the company now does other things like an online store with great products for training and playing and traveling with dogs. They publish books and DVDs and have Read more…
We did one of our first 2-day agility trial weekends in a very, very long time. Griffin and I entered a few classes on both Friday and Sunday. This was his best trial weekend – we had one good run after the next – most of the errors were little Read more…
Most breeds have a national breed club that promotes the type of dog, preserves history, encourages improved health and behavior, and provides educational resources. Most of the breed clubs have a national level event. Golden Retrievers are popular dogs and good at many things – so our national specialty, held Read more…
In the last month we’ve done 6 days of agility trials and one day of rally obedience – it ended up 4 days of trialing, each in a different program, in 8 days! Most of the agility days have been good – we had one bad trial day where he Read more…
I’ve been helping with the dog show for many years now. 4-H kids from all over the state train and prepare to participate in the event. Adult and youth volunteers work very hard to run the 5 day dog show. We’re exhausted by the end and so are the dogs! Read more…
Two days after our first AKC obedience trial, Griffin and I were up in Minnesota and did agility. Griffin has not been to an agility trial for about 18 months – at the last event he did a total of 3 jumps all day (and a few months after that Read more…
Griffin had his best lesson ever last Monday! I wasn’t sure if it was going to happen due to a and watching a live stream of our instructor competing out of state the day before… but we had an 8AM agility session. I wasn’t prepared – I didn’t have Read more…
During my trip I got to see many different dog activities and training. Here are few notes about what we did, learned, and observed Herding: Early on in my trip I was at a herding seminar. The dogs made amazing progress in two days, it was impressive how the training progressed Read more…
We did a lot of things last year that I don’t think I shared about – here’s just a sample! January: Griffin and I entered our first AKC obedience trial (but had to leave before it was even our turn!). February: I went to the area veterinary conference and went Read more…