I know, I said I'd do a better job keeping up my blog. What can I say? I suck. Anyway, Xen is coming up on his one-year birthday! He's making really nice progress in his training. The following video shows training for "object guard". His job is to prevent me from...
I haven't written on my blog in many months. What happened?! All is well! I stopped running day-to-day operations at FDSA, and that freed up time to do what I am seriously passionate about - education. Free education, for the most part, because I spend a very high...
There are at least three ways I use my hands around my dog's head for positioning - Chin rest (dog places their head in my hand), Pocket hand (dog places the side of their head/muzzle against my hand) and Nose bridge (dog pushes their muzzle up into my hand). I use a...
Timely for me. Today Chimène, (who has a lightning fast out on a tug) would not let go of a new holee-roller ball I gave her.
She sat, barely blinked and did not change her grip in the slightest.
Gave myself a computer break after that shock and here’s Denise with this Deep Dive. Perfect! I’m going to do some serious thinking of the toys with respect to the dog’s motivation for them; possession, fight, or chase. Also, what I play like with regard to those toys and things. For starters.
I’ll probably watch this 20 more times.
Big Thank You! And 20 more Big Thank Yous!