Last weekend I went up to Cleveland to attend a judge’s seminar for AKC obedience/rally. I’ve intended to go for at least 10 years and never made it until now! I’m really glad I took the time to go. While judging AKC obedience/rally is not my goal – I do Read more…
AssdfLast month we had our first attempts at AKC Open (obedience, level 2). It was great! The trial was a “two trials in one day” event. Griffin and I entered both trials for regular Open and for Preferred Open (half height jumps). Historically he has done best with more Read more…
A year ago I thought we finished our first level AKC Obedience title. And then in March a friend was checking on the AKC titles/events records and didn’t see it listed. I immediately emailed AKC about the error…and checking my records, I found we hadn’t finished it! At the end Read more…
Way back in 2001 when Blaze was a puppy, I did a lot of reading online about dogs and training – very quickly I learned about dog sports/activities – including competition obedience. For many reasons (dog health! behavior challenges! rules at the time prohibiting mixed breed dogs!) I just wasn’t Read more…
On Friday we drove up to Minnesota for an action packed 3 days; participate in a trial, judge a rally obedience trial, go to the vet specialist, and visit with dog friends. Yesterday we got to do two runs in CDSP obedience first thing in the morning before I judged. Read more…
Last weekend we hosted what we think is the first Companion Dog Sport Program (CDSP) trial in Ohio. One of our instructors and I (not knowing each other!) went to a seminar about it 9-10 years ago, but it seems nothing came of it at the time. This is a Read more…
One more “Griffin is the best” post is necessary. On Friday we did an AKC obedience trial. He was great. We need to do more training but also were able to show many things we can do well. We did Novice, Pre-Novice, Beginner Novice, and Rally Novice. We got a Read more…
During our trip we got to go to an obedience trial! The first level has some similarities to AKC and some big differences – with the exercises and with the general trial. Prior to the event we got emails about confirmation and a listing of all the dogs who would Read more…
Summer has been so busy! In June we did one day of a CPE agility trial that went fairly well – the jumpers course was one of the most beautiful I’ve seen. The next weekend we went to watch some of the CPE nationals (30 min away!), taking 4-H’ers and Read more…
When I was planning to go to the Titlemania event, I accidently cancelled my Wednesday classes, thinking the four day event started on a Wednesday. This worked out great, I found out about a Wednesday seminar in Kentucky that I would normally have not been able to attend. For a Read more…