Well, with the new terms of service changes to livejournal, not going to be supporting them. Another end of an era, I have moved my blog to:

https://cleverdogsblog.wordpress.com/

Set up the jumpers course from the Spring Cup for classes this week, that was a fun course to look at again.  Amusingly, on our second 'attempt' at this course, both dogs had completely different faults than at the trial. Bright went to the wrong end of a tunnel (admittedly, I WAS pushing in that direction!), Navarre ran past a push back serp (that ( Read more... )

I look good with a pyrshep, if I do say so myself:

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Pixel is like ... 15 months?  Somewhere in there, such a fun girl, Carol has done a wonderful job with her. And this was Pixel's first time running agility with someone other than her mom - she has skills! Though, to be fair, Carol kindly edited out the bits of Pixel attempting to kill me by ( Read more... )

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Playing around with a little obedience at the arena this morning before classes. Suddenly, Haku had beautiful and consistent pick ups with his dumbbell. Where the heck did that come from? Was it because it was on concrete? Hm. Lots of marking and rewarding the behavior, super happy with that improvement, wherever it magically came from. Also ( Read more... )

Set up the AKC NAC Finals course for classes this week. Well, a variation of it, naturally. Though the part I was able to put into the arena was fairly close to coursemap.


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