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Dog’s note to God: We dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID’s, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.
Snoopy
Do not make the [...]

or How Your Dog Too Can Spend Three Days in a Crate.
So much for happy holidays for the short guy. We’re not doing too well in the potty training department. I think the major problem with trying to potty train an adult dog is that they have much better control over their eliminations. [...]

AKC’s new FAST game, a game of strategy where distance skills are very useful
USDAA’s Snooker, a game of strategy where control is very useful (not that it’s not useful in FAST too).
By popular demand, we’ll throw in a tunnelers game, for the blast it gives the dogs.

More information is available at http://www.mountainviewdogs.com.

Words to the wise: Stay home (or just don’t enter) if you are invited to go to an agility trial in an unheated Virginia horse barn during the second week of December. It will take me a while to recover from this one.
The good parts were the dogs’ runs which were exceptionally wonderful, until the [...]

As inferred earlier Tuck did not come without issues, and it only took me about a day and a half to find out what the biggest one was. That’s when he started resource guarding, and the biggest resource he was guarding was me. He decided that Libby was not to be allowed near [...]

In an email discussion list I’m on, I’ve recently answered some questions about my favorite agility venue and would like to share this info. So here is my USDAA FAQ - which may be added to as more comes up.
Q. With what I can read on the USDAA website, it looks like the dogs run [...]