I hate volunteering at trials, don’t get me wrong, I like to be helpful to the host club and I don’t mind keeping busy but if I have to sit through another class full of trotting, sniffing, stressed,...
Yes, I am actually going to attempt riting on this thing again, with spring finally here I am finding my motivation So this weekend was Summit’s first real trial!! I can’t say it was my ...
Yay! and Riot is the medium team alternate….check out the team!
We just returned home from our trip to California where we had 3 days of agility seminars with Greg Derrett. It was a bit of an adventure driving through LA and renting my own car for the first time...
Summit chewed through my video camera cords, lap top charger, and cell phone charger a while ago (that is his only weakness when it comes to chewing ) but we got a brand new camera for Christmas!! H...
Bet you thought I was gonna say “foundation”… ;wrong! ”relationship” 230;nope! ”desire?”…c loser. Wanna know what I believe is the biggest hole in mo...
Some recent shots of Summit 7 months 7 months 6 months 6 months
Not sure where the time has gone but Summit is not over 6 months old! We have been very busy doing lots of training, here is a quick update: Socializing: Although Summit has shown no fears of new p...
Don’t worry, this is not some rant about how crazy we can be, throwing ourselves and or lives into this crazy sport we call dog agility. This post is about dog agility training and the importa...
We have had a busy month, starting with the trip to Austria for the world championships then flying out to Vernon, BC for a week of seminars, then directly to Moncton, NB for another 4 days of teachi...
Since I am not updating my blog much while here, check out team member Tiffany’s blog http://blog.tntbordercollies.c om
We are just finishing off our to do list before we leave this Saturday for Austria. Riot and I have been training hard all week, setting up courses from this years judges and working lots on jump gr...
Well I am back from Sweden ad even though I had a good time I really missed my dogs!! After 10 days away from Summit we had some training to do. I am still extremely happy with him and I can’...
Well I caved and finally bought a new computer. My old computer was about to give out on me so I decided to go for a Mac this time. I wanted to test out some of the video editing stuff so I took a ...
Summit is now 12 weeks old and we have accomplished so much. I have not had a puppy since Riot who is now 5 1/2 and back then I didn’t put much thought into the foundation training that I now ...
We had Susan Salo here on the weekend for a repeater jumping seminar for all the people that came out for her foundation clinic in November. I got to work Preston, Riot, Bounder and even Summit! Th...
Well we are back home from the 2009 AAC nationals and finally have a free moment to post. Our trip to Ottawa started off with a bang when we were held up at the Edmonton airport and almost missed our...
Here is a video of our restrained recalls and a few photos. We have been trying to do around 20 recalls per day in different environments learning to come screaming when he hears his name. Recalls ...
Well the good news is that Summit is great about sleeping through the night, ironically that is about the only time he does sleep! He is good about hanging out in the crate (as long as I am close by)...
I know, I know, everyone think their puppy is perfect, but he really is the most perfect puppy in the world! He stayed up until 2 am last night playing with me, he is just so entertaining its hard to...
I have been planning for a border collie pup for over four years and for the last six months I have been looking at breeders from all over north America. I have done tonnes of research on different ...
Well this is a bit overdue but our AAC regionals was a huge success! Our regionals were in Lethbridge this year and flashing Canines and Go Dog Go put on a great event. Unfortunately Chase re-injur...
As lucky as I am to be doing something I love for a living and as much as I sincerely enjoy instructing dog training and agility classes there comes a point where it can become frustrating. No so mu...
I have a confession to make… I really am a lousy blogger. This blog reminds me of all the record keeping books I have started; the first few pages are packed with relevant information and comm...
I have been living under a rock for the past couple months just getting classes and seminars scheduled, teaching every night and during the day and haven’t really had much to post about. I just...
Since I have been back from Florida I have been focusing on teaching Bounder (9 1/2 years) and Chase (7 1/2 years) lots of new stuff. They miss working and hate seeing me take Riot and Preston into ...
Fanny will be coming back for some more workshops in June. She is planning on coming for our AAC regionals with her cocker Shejpa. I don’t have details yet but she will be doing a 2 day advan...
Here are some of Riot’s runs from the Vero Beach USDAA trial: And from the Orlando trial:
Our trip to Florida this year was a non-stop action packed agility enthusiast’s dream vacation. The trip started with a red eye flight to Orlando after teaching my Thursday night class on the ...
It always seems that in the sport of dog agility, and probably most sports out there that there is such a small jump from being average to being good at what you do. Most people in the sport of agil...
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