Weekend of February 10/11, 2007 We traveled to Hampton VA to a Novice/Open AKC trial, indoors at the Merrimack Dog Training Center. It was my first time there, though Karen had been there before. We took three very novice dogs: Karen with Patch, a rescued border collie who is 7 and displays all the behaviors that border collies have been bred for centuries to have, and which cause people to place them free to a good home; Pam had Jessie,
Read moreConfession: My dogs don’t know the common obedience cue, “Stand.” Once upon a time I taught all of my dogs to stand on cue, but since I stopped doing competition obedience I didn’t feel the need for it and just stopped teaching it. Recently, in doing Canine Freestyle, I discovered a need for it. And now, while working on conditioning my couch potato Aussie Frenzy, it becomes even more important. I dawdled with it from time to time over the
Read moreWhile at Fair Hill in October we purchased photos done by Sport Photography CA. I just put one of the series they did into a Flash movie of our BC Jolt weaving. You can view them on our Photo page.
Read moreJoon lives. Really. I know I haven’t written anything since NOVEMBER 28th! (I actually didn’t realize it was that long ago! Oh my.) Let’s see, first of all I caught a cold – had no voice, a head full of stuff, and then it segued into an ear infection, and now I can’t hear. It’s been cold. Or hot. Or raining. There was a bunch of holidays in there too, disrupting any semblance of a “normal” life around here. Though
Read moreThe other day I was reading one of my e-mail lists (probably Clicktrain) and came across a post in which someone said something like if you find yourself in an adversarial relationship with your dog, you’re doing something wrong. This brought me up short. I know it to be a truth, but sometimes I guess I just need to be reminded. As you have probably read, Tuck and I do not share the same views about where dogs should defecate.
Read moreDog’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
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