Apparently I didn't take any pictures at the seminar, so here. Have a photo of dogs in party hats for no reason other than it's fu...

I am really proud of Maisy’s heeling- although I never thought I’d say that. It used to be that her heeling was sort of dull and lackluster,...

What does 2012 hold in store for Maisy and I? Greatness, I’m sure of it! I have no idea what form that greatness will take, but I'm hopi...

A few months ago, I attended a heeling handling skills class presented by Nancy Little , a popular local trainer. Earlier this week, I poste...

On Sunday, I rented some open ring time at a local training facility. We mostly worked on heeling, did a little jumping, and a couple signal...

A few months ago, I signed up for a dog training class without my dog. It sounds weird, I know, but Nancy Little , a popular local trainer, ...

Our heeling task this time around was to add sits to the heeling sequence. I thought this would be pretty easy, as Maisy has always had a pr...

Maisy and I continue to work hard. Well, "work" is probably the wrong word. Maisy actually stands by the front door (we only use t...

Since we’ve decided to make our obedience debut in December , I’ve been reading up on what our chosen venue, CDSP , requires in the novice c...

Maisy and I continue to work diligently on our heeling. When I last posted , Maisy was going rather wide, but was getting more or less in li...

The Denise Fenzi seminar really inspired me. Before that, my training with Maisy had of stagnated. I was kind of bored, and often uncertain...

Maisy and I had a working spot on the final day of the seminar. The night before, a bunch of us went out for supper with Denise, during whic...

She'd rather relax on the couch. Do you ever just have lazy training weeks? I hope I’m not alone in this, but every couple of months, I ...

Tonight, my friends Elizabeth and Beckett and Maisy and I went to an obedience run-through. We both did Novice CDSP . Maisy waiting patien...

Heeling is one of the hardest behaviors to teach and maintain, or at least that's the conclusion I've come to over the past year and...

One of the really cool things about obedience is that if you and your dog are having a good day, it looks effortless. You walk around, and y...

I mentioned that I took Maisy to a performance dog conditioning class the other day, but was so excited by how well she handled a stressful...

Last night, I took Maisy to a Performance Dog Conditioning class taught by Lin Gelbmann , a vet tech with thirty years of experience in equ...

So, it’s been three months since I set my 2010 dog training goals , and I thought it would be nice to evaluate our progress so far. Overall,...