Here’s an overdue post on last weekend’s trial. Wednesday was our club specialty, and I was working the fundraiser sale/raffle tables. I took Laev for some socialization and experience. It was a good idea; she’d… 

It’s been cold this week. Last Saturday we went tracking and I kept Laev’s fleece coat on her, as temperatures were cold enough to induce frostbite in only a couple minutes of exposure. She tracked… 

Today was a very good training day. After tracking, we went for club bitework practice. Laev did two sessions today, and the first was some of the most fun ever. Our helper wanted to do… 

Yesterday I laid a long track in one of our snowy fallow fields. It had been a while since Laev tracked, and I was concerned about keeping her head down and in the footprints —… 

A friend sent me this article on canine vision. Really fascinating, that members of the same species could have such drastically different physiology…. On the other hand, the generalization at the end is clearly bunk.… 

A friend sent me this article on canine vision. Really fascinating, that members of the same species could have such drastically different physiology…. On the other hand, the generalization at the end is clearly bunk.… 

This morning, Laev laid her head in my hands and leaned quietly against me for an ear and cheek rub. You wouldn’t think this was such a big deal, but this is the first time… 

This has nothing, nothing to do with training, but this email exchange was kind of fun, so I’m preserving it here. Mark: Wii! I managed to grab one from Amazon. It’ll be here Thursday. 🙂… 

Tonight, Laev showed me how our training is really starting to stick. We set up two blinds in the barn, and I set up Laev before the first. Now, we’d done this for the first… 

Schutzhund training tonight, and we have mostly good news to report. I started with retrieve practice, because I’ve made a silly error with that; I began training the retrieve from scratch with my plastic AKC…