Two runs with Laev today, both qualifying. That was good. The second suffered a bit of “puppy brain” — she was a little distracted and therefore slower to respond — and we scored only a… 

…and Laura’s getting what she deserves. It was a healthy drive to our Rally trial this weekend, and I’m running eight courses a day, so I thought I’d drive over the night before and get… 

If you haven’t been to a Kathy Sdao seminar yet, quit reading this blog and go find one. I’m not kidding! I have seen her three(?) times and I think she’s fabulous. Okay, this weekend… 

Every year Shakespeare does Agility demonstrations for the Reach For Tomorrow program for handicapped and at-risk children. It’s a five-day program servicing about 3,000 kids, but this year we participated only two days, as I… 

Finally! Camera and computer are now on speaking terms, more or less, and I was able to pull some video to post. Shakespeare’s UDC Adult Temperament Test – Again, this test is not designed to… 

We spent about 50 minutes in the training building after class tonight. We’ve just started Step 5 of Susan Garrett’s 2×2 weave poles method. During step 4, Laev was actually going out through the poles,… 

If you haven’t seen Cindy Noland’s art, you need to check it out. She does fabulous photography, and she managed to capture the only existing still of Laev’s temperament test: see here and then you’d… 

So, apparently my video camera is not-quite-dead. The Firewire port broke last year about this time, while I was at the UDC Nationals, and apparently this year in honor of that anniversary, the USB port… 

Every once in a while, one hears of a collar accident. This past week I encountered two — Laev caught her martingale on a borrowed drop-pin crate, and a client’s dog caught her flat bucklet… 

It’s drizzly and cold today (about 45 degrees F) so I took Laev out and practiced heeling in the rain, downing on wet gravel and sitting in the mud. We were using a tug as…