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Toss it
Julie has been video recording a lot of our runs lately, the good ones, the bad ones – who knows going in. But here’s the cool thing she does – after you watch the “bad” one…she erases it. It’s over, … Continue reading
Newest Stuffie
Every once in a while I find a cute stuffed dog in the children’s section of a thrift shop and buy it for Chico to play with. When we traveled two years ago, we had the first Stuffie and Chico … Continue reading
Lions and tigers and bears – oh my!
Well, not really, but I have been feeling a bit wild-eyed lately, planning a kitchen, probably without enough professional help and it has kept me from sharing a fun run from what is now close to two weeks ago. It’s … Continue reading
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Open water!
The past week sped by as I considered appliances for my kitchen and made daily visits to the work site to decide things like where does the shower end, and would the toilet be better over here. It’s quite the … Continue reading
Weaves
Here’s Chico in a practice session at Julie’s: Hear him roar, he owns them suckers. Here’s a compilation of our weaves at the AKC trial a couple weeks ago: Not a lot of weave pole ownership there. One thing I … Continue reading
Distance, distraction, duration
Those are the three factors that can be used to up the ante when you’re teaching a behavior. A trick that Chico can do at home becomes instantly harder when he’s asked to do it in front of someone visiting … Continue reading
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How good is my dog?
This morning I realized that in a fit of searching for something else last night, I left two sources of treats well within Chico’s reach for twelve or fourteen hours and he didn’t go shopping. Yes, tidy house makes tidy … Continue reading
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Sounds like fun, let’s go!
Vermont based agility club NOMAD is having a three day trial in this summer. Held at the Trapp Family Lodge. The singing von Trapp family of Sound of Music fame moved to Vermont when they left Austira and settled in Vermont. … Continue reading
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Tagged NOMAD, Trapp Family Lodge, USDAA agility, von Trapp family
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Standard and Pairs runs
For those of you who like travel stories better, sorry, but today you get two more agility runs. Third class of the day was Standard and this was our least effective run, I let down on Chico. It was tough at … Continue reading
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Tagged Pinetree power classic, sled dog races, start line, USDAA agility
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Last weekend’s USDAA Jumpers and Gamblers
We had four runs last weekend and since Paws in Action was there, I have video of all four. I’ll give you two today and two the next time, how about that? First class of the day was P3 Jumpers. … Continue reading
Can I Bring the Dog? 