Setting the Bar

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s been a while. But let’s jump right into it, so to speak. When training your dog, be very careful of what it is exactly that you are training. Camm recently started ducking under jump… Read More

So You Think You Want to Be a Rock Star

Alternative title: How to Socialize Your Puppy in One Weekend. Second alternative (more accurate) title: Sleep is Overrated. Yikes! Five weeks in and hardly a peep on the blog about the new tribe member, Rhys. Plenty on Facebook… Read More

Snowy and Clean

Snowy and Clean. It pretty much sums up the last few weeks. There’s presently a lot of snow here – at least for the Pacific Northwest portions that aren’t in the mountains. Also, my house is now very… Read More

This is How We Ring In the New Year

How to end the year and start the new year? With an agility trial of course! Really, did you expect anything different? So by the skin of her pearly white teeth, got Camm qualified for CPE Nationals in… Read More

Recovery

Today is a recovery day. Also known as a “lost day.” The dogs and I slept until 11 am this morning. I know. Shameful. The funny thing is, that I actually had to push the dogs aside to… Read More

The Dog is What Matters

I enjoy the Qs as much as any competitor, but quite some time ago I realized that’s not really why I do agility. I enjoy the camaraderie of the people I’ve met through agility and the friends I’ve… Read More

This Dog

Last week was all about Youke. Around here, the idiom of “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” often holds true. Youke is not a squeaky wheel. At least not within my small tribe. I make a concerted effort… Read More

Therapy Session

“Really? We have to leave soon? I’m just getting my nap on.” I had a hard time getting going on Friday for the weekend’s agility adventure. For once, I was not the issue. The dogs all wanted to… Read More