I thought I was done with all this TDI-bashing, but I think I’m going to finally come out and say this. Some — not all, certainly, but some — of the TDI office staff are… 

I hesitated to post this, lest it sound whiny and self-absorbed. I don’t want that! But if this blog is about my thoughts and experiences training, and the following are indeed part of my thoughts… 

Monday, I got a call from my training friend who organizes the therapy dog reading programs for the county-wide public library system. One of their regulars was ill and they needed a substitute dog. So… 

The warm spell has begun. Temperatures jumped from below zero to about forty degrees on Saturday, and our accumulated snow (over a foot at my house) began to melt. This meant Saturday was our last… 

I went with a group to an APDT/CDSP trial weekend and wanted to brag on the results! Two CIA puppy clients entered the just-approved Puppy class. Montana is an 8 month old Lab and has… 

I started teaching scent articles just before Christmas. In the beginning, she was so quick to simply do *something* with a dumbbell that she wasn’t pausing to think about what was getting clicked. Previous learning… 

Saturday I went to Schutzhund training with Laev. This was my first time back since the debacle of the trial, and I still didn’t have a good plan for what I was going to do… 

Today is not a good day to have a blog. There are good aspects to having a blog; it forces me to think though things as I write posts, it connects me with other people… 

I realized I’d forgotten to mention something in my last post…. I was talking with Alena today, and we think that my previous supposition — that perhaps Shakespeare really had suffered some loss to his… 

I took the dogs out for one final practice…. Shakespeare’s track had an ugly section where he seemed to lost the straight line, and then he did okay. Indicated both articles, even did corners. I’d…