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The last two weeks have been crazy busy. We've been to Carmel for the Del Monte Kennel Club Trials, and to Reno for the Truckee Meadows Dog Training Club Trials. Two very different venues and experiences, all building Spur's exposure to different performance...
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Each spring, the AKC Gazette publishes the results of all the previous year's competitions. Championships, Obedience, Tracking, Agility, Rally, Field Trial, Hunt Test, Earthdog, Lure Coursing and other titles completed in 2007 are all found here, organized by group and...
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Ah, the good, the bad and the ugly. After two days of all-terrier obedience trials, and one day at the Sacramento Kennel Club trials, Spur remains legless. i have made the difficult decision to scratch the fourth day.
And that, my friends, is...
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I'm told that there are places in the US, especially in the midwest, where obedience trials are all held in virtually identical locations. These are large buildings - because the weather is unsuitable for so much of the year - with nicely separated, babygated rings,...
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It's 6:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, and Spur and I are on the road to Vacaville. Our destination is the oversize metal-sided building that Cessie Banfield has set up for dog training on the property behind her home in this rural neighborhood.
Once a...
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On Monday nights, if I can sneak away from work early enough to make Alan Miller's lively advanced dog training class, you can bet that Spur and I will be there. Alan offers beginning, intermediate and advanced dog training classes at a couple of locations in the...
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It was a lovely Saturday so Spur and I headed to the park. My plan was to work on goes - this is the part of the Directed Jumping exercise in which he must run straight away from me until I tell him to stop and sit. It's the element of Utility which worries me the most.
When we got...
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Friends in my non-dog life keep asking me what it is I'm so worked up about these days. Utility Dog? What the heck is that?
Well.
AKC obedience titles are based on three sets of exercises, Novice, Open and Utility, Utility being the most difficult. In a nutshell, at...
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With the Sacramento AKC obedience trials just a few weeks away, Spur and I have upped our training schedule to the max. It's important that he practice his skills in as many different venues as possible. Dogs are very situational. Spur knows the exercises, but he hasn't fully...
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After ten years of showing my miniature schnauzers in AKC obedience trials, it's fun to have a chance to chronicle the journey towards titles, the fun we have together, the interesting people and amazing dogs we meet along the way. I learn something new from Spur every day - and I hope he...
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