Overheard in public tonight: “Wow! That dog’s only ten weeks old and it already knows sit on a hand signal!” Well, actually, we started with the hand signal, but I didn’t mention that. I did,… 

Wow, what a delight in my inbox today. I returned to several days’ worth of unchecked mail, because my time’s been taken with other things (more on that later), and found a number of hostile… 

Oops! I didn’t mean to cause a panic with my mention of Shakespeare in the last post; I got a couple of emails about him. He’s absolutely fine. 🙂 But I have been kicking around… 

I had a rough afternoon, thinking about Shakespeare’s future as a performance dog. (More on that later, when I get my head sorted out.) It was relieved by working Laev on Armin Winkler for the… 

Those are tracking exercises for Laev, not the marks Laev leaves on the floor. I carefully prepared for Laev’s first puppy track, only to have her attack the flag. See the relevant post. This morning,… 

I am very grumpy at the moment, as I just discovered that the person I asked to videotape our work with Armin Winkler today never hit the record button. C’mon! It’s even big and red!… 

She’s now offering sits when she wants something! This beats mugging, jumping and biting by a mile. Yippee! Trying the hand signals for the first time from another person today was rough. But we managed,… 

She’s now offering sits when she wants something! This beats mugging, jumping and biting by a mile. Yippee! Trying the hand signals for the first time from another person today was rough. But we managed,… 

I’m getting a lot of anonymous comments — which is fine, except that some of them ask questions and I can’t respond without a point of origin! But here’s a basic review: Laev was born… 

Forgive me for being a bit snarky, but it’s been a bad ear day, so to speak. I was approached so many times today with, “What a cute puppy…. Oh, she has a tail. Hm.…