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December 30, 2006 Averill Cats and dogs Leave a comment

Stuff I found while cleaning up my computer

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 mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. Martha Scott If dogs could talk, it would

December 25, 2006 lvance Cats and dogs, Dog training, Tuck Leave a comment

Tuck’s First Christmas. . .

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. Puppies are pretty much pre-programmed. If their legs are moving they need to potty. If they eat, they need to defecate. Easy. All you have to

December 21, 2006 Averill Agility training, Dog training Leave a comment

New Years Day Games at Mountain View

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.

December 12, 2006 Averill Agility trialing Leave a comment

December Trials

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 afternoon of day #2 when the handler’s brain became mush and she couldn’t form a complete “go tunnel” cue and “table” came out instead

December 10, 2006 lvance Agility training, Cats and dogs, Dog training, Tuck Leave a comment

Tuck the Floor Dog

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 me especially in the study. Needless to say that did not sit well with Libby nor I. I was angry and Libby was upset. It really bothered

December 8, 2006 Averill Agility trialing Leave a comment

Q&A – USDAA Agility

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 “naked”. At least the people get to wear their clothes. Also looks like USDAA runs all “Starters” together without “A” and “B” classes.I couldn’t