Preparing for Competition: Squishing!

As many of you know, I now teach classes on-line at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy.  One of the courses I’m about to teach is a Ring Confidence Class.  In the process of preparing for this course, I realized just how many behaviors we can teach our dogs in order to allow...

Those Pesky Finishes

My least favorite precision aspect of obedience is the finish.  No surprise, it is also where I lose the most points.  Funny how that works. I do pretty well with the “around” finish but I struggle with the  flip to heel.  That bugs me.  I want my dogs to...

Heeling Games!

Heeling games are simply fun ways to practice your heeling.  Basic heeling games involve some kind of movement – either vertical, horizontal or some type of trick behavior.  More advanced heeling games are a compilation of movement, patterns, surprises, opposition...