2026 Issue Index
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Ratings
- Top 100 OTCH Point Listing
Features- Trevy: A Sparkling Career & A Joyful Farewell
- Great Champions. Great Listeners
Highlights- New Year’s Training Resolutions: Some For The Handler & Some For The Dog
- Course Practice: Continuing Intro To Rally #30: Excellent Course
- Where To Now?
- AKC Classic – 2025
- HGE: Now Known As AHDS
- NADOI: Ground Your Dog!
- Clarity In Connection & Preventing Post Reinforcement Check Out
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Ratings
- Front & Finish® Top 100 Dogs of 2024
- Front & Finish® 2024 Top Ten Novice A Teams
Features- Encountering Hemangiosarcoma
- Handled With Heart: A February Reflection On Dogs & The Human Heart
Highlights- Continuing Intro to Rally – 31: Excellent Course
- Take A Break Then Start Up Again
- Obedience – Feel The Addiction
- Enjoying Old Photos of Past Dogs at Christmastime
- NADOI – Get It In Writing: The Power of Contracts
- Coming Next Month! The 2025 Delaney Rating Results
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In This Issue
- Front & Finish™ Delaney Rating System – 2025 Results
- From Chauffeur to Competitor: The Rise of Team Cleo
- Bringing Persnickety Home
- It’s Never “Just”
- Sometimes The Best Dog Wins, Sometimes The Best Dog NQs
- Advanced Rally Challenges: Excellent & Master Challenges
- Playing Dumb With The Dumbbell
- How Do You Get To The Olympics? Practice!
- Ideas For Entertaining Bored Dogs
- A Foray ~ The Backwards Orbit
- NADOI ~ From Shelter To Service
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In This Issue
- Front & Finish™ Rally Combined Rating System – 2025 Results
- From Novice A to Legend: Ozzy’s Story
- Rocket Revisited
- The Privilege and The Price of Dropping In
- Continuing Intro to Rally – 32 Novice & Advanced Nested Courses
- Continuing Toward Perfection With The Dumbbell
- Rosette, Rosette, Who’s Got The Rosette?
- Nose Work Classes
- NADOI ~ Characteristics of Effective Dog Training Instructors
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In This Issue
- Front & Finish™ Open A Obedience Ratings – 2025 Results
- Stemming The Decline of Obedience – A Radical Proposal to Restructure Obedience After the Agility Model
- Cookies! Confessions Emerging from Three Decades of Treats Dependence (Part 1 of 5)
- Do You Ever Look Your Dog In The Eyes
- Continuing Intro to Rally – Advanced Rally Challenges 32
- Should Dogs Ever Retire From Training?
- The Price of Admission
- A Little About Lhasa Apsos
- NADOI ~ Resolution: Fit Dog in 2026
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In This Issue
- Front & Finish™ Novice A & B Obedience Ratings – 2025 Results
- Stemming The Decline of Obedience – Continuing The Conversation
- Where Have All The Tchotchkes Gone? A Dog Sports Reflection
- Biscuits & Bones – The Next Few Issues
- Continuing Intro to Rally – Advanced Rally Challenges 33
- Away From The Doghouse ~ Choosing From So Many Dog Sports
- A Foray ~ Preventing Forward Motion During Command Discrimination
- Doggedly Obedient ~ Dogs See With Their Noses
- AKC Lauds Passage of Farm Bill for Animal Welfare
- Cookies! Confessions Emerging from Three Decades of Treats Dependence (Part 2 of 5)
- The Quiet After The Storm – Remembering Obvi
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Ratings
- Lifetime OTCH Point Leaders
Features- Stemming The Decline of Obedience Reader Feedback
- Cookies! Confessions Emerging from Three Decades of Treats Dependence (Part 3 of 5)
Highlights- Biscuits & Bones – Our Sport. Our Community. Our Future.
- Course Practice – Advanced Rally Challenges – Rally In Small Spaces
- Away From The Doghouse – Good Thoughts Only When Entering A Trial
- Doggedly Obedient ~ Can You Tell When Your Dog Is In Odor?
- A Common Bond ~ Why Go?
- Can Obedience Learn From Agility
- Saving the Sport Of Obedience Competition
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In This Issue
- Front & Finish™ Ratings ~ Rally Master Ratings
- Hubble The Rescued Beagle ~ Doggedly Obedient
- Have Your Say! Upcoming National Obedience Survey
- Cookies! Confessions Emerging from Three Decades of Treat Dependence – (4th of 5 )
- Biscuits & Bones – Continuing The Conversation – More Readers Respond
- Book Review~ Exercise Finished
- Course Practice – Advanced Rally Challenges 34 – Master Challenge
- Perspective ~ Three Little Words
- Away From The Doghouse – Every Dog Trainer Has Something Worth Passing Along
- A Common Bond ~ First Timers
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Features…
- Front & Finish™ First & Foremost Obedience Rating System
- Obedience Training Is Important For All Dog Sports
- Reinforcement The Modern & The Forgotten
- Cookies! Confessions Emerging from Three Decades of Treat Dependence – (5th of 5 )
Highlights…- Biscuits & Bones – Looking Ahead
- Course Practice – Intro To Rally – 34 – Rally In Small Spaces
- AKC – New World Screwworm Update
- Away From The Doghouse – Read The Rulebook
- Ring Ready Workshop Recap – 3 Ring Confidence Games
- Blaze Graduates To Non-Pairings ~ Doggedly Obedient
- NADOI – Lessons from the Dogs of Kauai
- A Common Bond ~ Title Rosettes
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Features…
- Front & Finish™ 2025 Advnced A Rally Ratings
- Front & Finish™ 2025 Intermediate Ratings
- National Obedience Survey: An Early Look & What Comes Next
- Proof of What?
Highlights…- Dog Trainer’s & Judges
- Advanced Rally Challenges – 35: Excellent Challenge
- Letter’s To The Editor
- Teaching My Senior Dog A New Language
- Book Review – Diane Bauman’s Teaching Dogs To Make Better Decisions
- A Common Bond: Sportsmanship
