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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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I'm calling this "Part I" because it's dawned on me there will be many more Parts to come . . .
Moments after posting my earlier blog on lessons learned at the Rusch Park match, Spur and I went out to practice a few things.
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Saturday, Rusch Park, a few hundred dogs and their owners out for a morning of practice and preparation. We were there for obedience, conformation, rally, Canine Good Citizen, you name it.
The event is put on every year by the Doberman...
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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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I'm on the internet tonight, shopping for cheap sheets, all in the name of excellence in dog training.
This spree is at the recommendation of my trainer, Mary Vogler. For several weeks she's been away, or our schedules haven't meshed, and I haven't...
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In 2003, Petra and I were fortunate enough to participate in the AKC Obedience Invitational. The top four dogs of each breed are invited, and the show pits 100 of the top obedience dogs from across the nation.
Alas, we finished in 99th place. ...
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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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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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In the midst of all the current frenzy over Spur's upcoming shows, the USPS brings a message from our vet. It is time for Petra's geriatric check-up.
Petra? Geriatric? How has this come to be?
The fact is, Dunnigan's...
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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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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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