More Butch Henderson observation, more obedience. I didn’t see any conformation at all this year. I left the seminar early to get in some more practice on the trial field. Wow, Laev’s doing well, I… 

The next day I audited the Butch Henderson seminar in obedience and protection. I opted to audit not because I don’t trust Butch Henderson, but because I just didn’t know him well. I’m very choosy… 

I’m sorry; this is *long* overdue. But here’s the final report on UDC Nationals. We drove home from a fun but hectic four days at Acen, arriving Sunday night. We stripped costumes and panel presentation… 

I know, I know, I’m *way* behind in updating Laev’s blog, but I just couldn’t let this go by. The word is that our mayor Bart Peterson will introduce his BSL again this year. And… 

Well, we’d been making progress, I thought. Last night I had my husband hold Laev’s dinner while I took her through roughly half a BH routine, at the end of which I sent her for… 

My training friend Wes is taking a Harvard class in behavior and shared with me some startling information regarding open and closed economies in training. Graphs of success rates indicated much different rates of learning… 

Okay, UDC Nationals is in two weeks, and my dog is utterly brainless. We’d been doing shorter heelwork, focusing on AKC obedience and AKC/APDT rally over the winter, and I knew we were going to… 

Tonight we were outside for protection training, as the field was finally dry enough that we could work without outfitting the dogs in water wings. 🙂 Laev was THRILLED to be working outside! Positively ecstatic.… 

Well, that was exciting. Today we had APDT and CDSP trials in the same building, which was convenient but tiring (I had 12 runs today). It was great fun, because I was joined by a… 

We had great fun at ClickerExpo, and I was quite proud of Laev. I realized on the second day this was a hugely new experience for her — while we’ve done several trials, she’s never…