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Dice – 9 months of age
I have good intentions to write regularly about Dice's progress and then life happens. Anyway, here's an unedited clip of Dice working at nine months of age. If you're working cue discrimination or drop on recall you'll get some ideas here to prevent creeping, via...
Start of Drop on Recall
The drop on recall requires 1) a solid understanding of your drop cue and 2) the ability to process that cue in motion. You can do this at several levels of detail, depending on the needs of your dog. To see this exercise broken down into tiny bits, most appropriate...
Eight month update
Dice is a pleasure to train. I haven't kept up as well here on my blog as I would have liked, but I am training daily and having a lot of fun doing it! Here's our morning session. What strikes me above all is the importance of keeping him in the game. If he's...
Podcast episode with Denise about Conversations with Raika
Okay; this is big news. I have a new fiction novel coming out about my life with Raika and it's currently available for pre-order! I'll talk more about the book here on my blog soon, but for now....how about a podcast that describes our story? I hope you'll take a...
Dice is eight months old
I'm having a blast training this dog! He's full-on teenager right now and not the easiest to manage but he's a hard worker and a whole lot of fun! Plus he's handsome. Here, you can see for yourself: