Advanced Rally Challenges
If you’d like to have some challenging Advanced Rally course practice, I’d like to offer some to you.
Holding posts edited in Elementor
If you’d like to have some challenging Advanced Rally course practice, I’d like to offer some to you.
Book Review: Attitiude + Attention = TEAMWORK: Seven Steps to Success by Catherine L. Zinsky
This article is not meant to be a lesson on how to obtain a trick dog championship. It is just the tale of my journey during the summer of 2020. A Canadian, senior, who loves playing and working with her dogs.
Zooming. Most of us have heard the term. A dog running in big circles around his handler while the handler feels helpless to stop or control the behavior.
To say that 2020 has been a difficult year is an understatement. The COVID pandemic disrupted the lives of millions of Americans, forcing them into their homes.
The title speaks for itself. Still worthy advice…
2018 Front & Finish Dog Trainer’s Survey Exhibitor Comments – Part IV *** I’ve been a proponent for a long time that there should be a handler’s meeting. They do it for Novice but why not for the other classes? They do it in agility and herding: you can talk to the judge, ask scoring or…
*** I feel that some of my answers are dependent on my present dog situation. I’ve only got two dogs; one who completed his titles before the changes to obedience were implemented and another, younger dog who dislikes obedience so we’re currently training in agility. I do own a heavy-bodied breed, though, and I don’t believe that the broad jump did any physical harm to either of the ones I trialed at the open level.
2018 Front & Finish Dog Trainer’s Survey Exhibitor’s Comments – Part II by Bob Self Dog Trainer’s Survey – Exhibitor Comments ~ Continued From Section I *** I think that having the most experienced and successful handlers (referred to as “the OTCH people” at many of the trial that I attend) be more supportive and warmer…
2018 Front & Finish Survey Exhibitor’s Comments ~ Part I by Bob Self Last month we published the 2018 Dog Trainer’s Survey for exhibitors participating in Obedience & Rally competitive events. Results of this study are being published in two parts, first exhibitors comments, and second the actual response data to the questions. There were a…