Ring stress

by | May 28, 2018 | Generic training advice

Sue Yanoff, a student at FDSA and a longtime obedience competitor, wrote the following description of her journey to her CDX with her Beagle Ivy.    I asked Sue if I could share it here because in my experience, ring stress is the most common problem trainers run into...

Brito five months general training

by | Nov 1, 2013 | Brito

Here is an eleven minute training session of Brito from this morning.  You can see a variety of things. Shaping with a dumbbell.  I normally hold it because he tends to put his feet on objects sitting on the floor.  That is not a habit that I want to encourage. (...

Brito – Training Day 5

by | Oct 27, 2013 | Brito

For those who are worried that Lyra may have disappeared…no worries.  She’s doing very well and, if anything, has been rather brilliant this week. But…she’s getting to be a “trained” dog, which means there is less and less that I...

Lyra – 5 months – Schutzhund preparation

by | Jan 13, 2012 | Lyra

Along with Lyra’s adult teeth came a brain.  A very nice combination. Her worries disappeared – almost overnight.  Everywhere I’ve taken her this week she’s been a rock. With people, she’s even more social than she was as a very small...