Just kidding – kind of! Rudy has been staying with us while his family travels. He’s 14 now and I’ve known him since about 10 weeks! I haven’t seen him in two years – from puppy to 12 he was pretty much the same dog – it’s hard to see Read more…
We make a few trips up north each year so that the dogs can go to their wonderful rehab vet. We’re most concerned about Viktor’s legs right now. We like to time the trips with dog show opportunities. Friday: We entered an obedience trial somewhat close to home. Griffin was entered Read more…
I’ve been helping with the dog show for many years now. 4-H kids from all over the state train and prepare to participate in the event. Adult and youth volunteers work very hard to run the 5 day dog show. We’re exhausted by the end and so are the dogs! Read more…
I wish I had video showing exactly what Griffin’s doing with his nose at the gate – he’s so adorable. This is something we need for our competition obedience training. We’ve been adding in an automatic duration nose touch to the gate. In the previous session I was giving him Read more…
Somehow Griffin and I ended up on an adventure with a friend. We had a departure date and we had an end date – and the parts in the middle just sort of happened. First we took the dogs to Washington DC. I’d been here before – 12+ years ago Read more…
Griffin has been on restricted activity all month. We managed to still do a lot of training – it just was the things I should probably do rather than the things that are more fun to work on. It’s been hard to not do the sequencing and trial prep we Read more…
Friday was “Take Your Dog to Work Day.” There’s a nice picture of Blaze and Griffin at work with their friend Marsh. My dogs think that’s great. They get to go to work with me most of the time. When we go teach lessons they sometimes go with our car Read more…
During my trip I got to see many different dog activities and training. Here are few notes about what we did, learned, and observed Herding: Early on in my trip I was at a herding seminar. The dogs made amazing progress in two days, it was impressive how the training progressed Read more…
Yesterday we went to the local elementary school to do a few presentations. These were the youngest kids I’ve presented for and we had three groups, about an hour each time! Griffin did some agility, some tricks, and we talked about different ways to get behaviors. My favorite part was Read more…
5 years! It seems like I’ve had Griffin forever, but it also doesn’t seem too long ago I was driving across New York to meet him. In the last year we’ve done our first few agility trials, started and completed a rally trial, moved to off leash rally, did obedience Read more…