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Exciting day!
Today is an exciting day for me, Starfish to the Sea Animal Rescue will be pulling my foster dog from a shelter in West Virginia (barring anything strange). Dexter will be my first foster dog and I am very excited! He's a 1 year old Australian Cattle Dog who is...
I sure am manly with a hacksaw!
There are very few things I love more than learning new games/sports/tricks with the dogs. I love the process of learning together... of taking a journey together where neither of us really know the route. It's why I've taken obedience classes, rally-o classes,...
How Exciting–a break in the action
A few days ago I was shocked to find that fellow pet blogger Tail Waggin had passed along the "Stylish Blogger Award" it's a nice bit of positive reinforcement for sure! So I'm sort of "late" in the game and many of the blogs I follow already have this award but part...
He's so stubborn!
"He knows what I want but he just refuses to do it!" Okay, well, what exactly is going on? "When we are out for a walk and he does his business, I ask him to sit and he just completely refuses. All I want is for him to sit while I pick up but he is just so stubborn...
Adrenaline… detrimental to thinking?
When we think about a system being flooded with adrenaline we generally think of super strength, hyper vigilance, jittery, energetic and possibly a crash as the adrenaline works its way out of the body. What I failed to think about what the effect adrenaline had on...
I need a farm
I have always seen myself ending up on a mini-farm with somewhere between 4 and 15 acres. I'd love to have a big barn where I can hold training classes, maybe a small number of goats or a few cows, some chickens, a nice field for agility/frisbee, and I'd LOVE a body...
Foto-Friday
Alright, this week has continued to have some wordy posts and I think I'm ready for a break. The last few days have been chilly but beautiful. Full sun, mild breezes, and generally really pleasant. I have spent as much time outside as humanly possible reading,...
Train Naked!
Not you, the dogs! Clicker Training, unlike more traditional training, really allows the handler to build up off-leash reliability from the very get go. Traditional training (especially at its worst) is centered around delivering leash pops and corrections. Dogs...
Missing…
We take a break in the clicker action to post about two missing dogs. A good friend of mine runs a small rescue group and a former foster (a dog who was once considered unadoptable for fear issues) has gone missing from her Furever home with another rescue dog in the...
Click your way to Confidence!
A few weekends ago at agility class Rio had a bit of an accident. We were just working on a simple circle pattern with a crazy entrance/exit from the tunnel (from the back of the curved tunnel). There was a tight-ish turn after a jump to the dog-walk. I don't...