Author Archives: annieriecken

and how it relates to your whole life. I may be preaching to the choir here, but this is a great talk about positive reinforcement training, dominance theory, dogs, and human relationships. Well worth the ten or eleven minutes it … Continue reading →

In USDAA agility there is a kind of competition called Dog Agility Masters (or for those of us running our dogs at a lower jump height, Performance Versatility Pairs – PVP) where two handlers form a team. Each handler/dog team runs … Continue reading →

On Saturday I learned that it isn’t possible, at least for us, to look at a wood stove in northwestern Vermont and also run agility in northwestern Massachusetts on the same day. It looked so much closer on the map, … Continue reading →

My niece just sent me a picture of Chico when he was first with their family. Yes, that’s a toy sword. I don’t know the story either. But look how much thinner he was then. He has a waist. His … Continue reading →

Chico’s eyelid is much better, he started to scratch at it yesterday and when I looked, the stitches were starting to dissolve and fly around his eye and into his field of vision, so I quick pulled out the remaining thread … Continue reading →

We haven’t seen green grass for months. I found this little video of Chico ignoring the weed eater, taken last July, and it’s so nice and green, and the birds are chirping. It was like that before, and will be … Continue reading →

Because it’s cute.