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 these skills because he’s not supposed to be moving very 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 enthusiastic about her topics and that made everything even more Read more…
For the past almost-two-weeks we’ve had Fanny here for an obedience seminar. It was great, we had so much fun and I’m very happy with all the training I accomplished with Griffin. We had quite a few people who were able to attend most of the 10 days (a day Read more…
Last week we went and visited a friend and her dogs. When I arrived we took the dogs for a short walk together and rewarded the dogs for moving with us and not being too curious about each other. We were able to quickly have the dogs walking quite close Read more…
It’s surprisingly hard to find large jingle bells. A few years ago I really wanted some so that we could do holiday-themed tricks during part of a December group class. After four craft stores I was finally successful and we had fun teaching the dogs to nose target the bells. Read more…
Griffin needs to be able to be sent across the ring, past jumps, in the third level of competition obedience. We haven’t done any practice with a ‘real ring’ set up since spring. And surprisingly, his session looked really good. I really like his sharp turn when I ask for Read more…
This has been one of my busiest summers. We went to several seminars, traveled to teach a camp, did some puppy sitting/training, taught many classes (mostly new topics!), went to an agility trial, trained my dogs a lot, and helped with the 4-H program at the local and state level. No Read more…
I’m back to teaching agility classes and I’m so happy to see some of my past students again. For the most advanced level class, we’re playing with having a ‘theme’ for three weeks so that we can really build on the skills. Our current theme is ‘distance’, and specifically working Read more…
5 years! It seems like I’ve had Griffin forever, but it also doesn’t seem too long ago I was driving across New York to meet him. In the last year we’ve done our first few agility trials, started and completed a rally trial, moved to off leash rally, did obedience Read more…
Luna’s now (approximately!) 9 years old. She’s been learning new tricks, getting extra treats, and stealing all the food puzzle toys from the other dogs.