Went tracking today. Carefully laid my track, sighting along trees for a straight line and then corners. Got puppy. Started track. Noticed that she was drifting upwind (unusual, to say the least). I guided her… 

Weekend wrap-up: AKC Rally Obedience, 98/100 and 98/100. At least we’re consistent. 🙂 AKC Open, NQ x 2. I was really pleased with Saturday’s run, though, and we had the same error both days —… 

I was wrong. It used to be that APDT offered varied titles based on score averages, then the varied titles were offered according to scoring within guidelines, and now they just offer one title for… 

Warning: shameless bragging follows. Shakespeare and I manned a CIA booth at Hancock County Paws in the Park and then another at a Camp Bowwow grand opening on Saturday, where we did clicker demos, and… 

My computer is completely fried — massive hard drive error, cannot boot, etc., etc. — so I’m posting this from another machine and it will be very short. 🙂 I took the dogs tracking today… 

I never intended for this blog to become a forum for debating cropping and docking, but apparently some critics are not content to let it be (see comments to previous post). So, since this is… 

Shakespeare had Agility class from 9 to 10, and then after that I took Laev into the ring with another six month old Dobe, and Carolyn and I just practiced individual behaviors with the dogs… 

I’d gotten tired of running out of dog food — with a Dobe, an adolescent Rott, and a puppy monster, we go through even the big bags at an alarming rate — so I placed… 

My 8:00 didn’t show tonight, so I killed some time in the training building sweeping, straightening the interlocking mats, etc., and finally I gave up and went to get Laev. Might as well get some… 

…that a grouping of four 24″ dried steer pizzles arranged in a vase can look just like brown bamboo shoots? More or less? If you squint? …that if you sit on a 24″ dried steer…