The Challenge of Changing our Emotions

The Challenge of Changing our Emotions

I don’t care if you are a “dog trainer” with strong opinions or if you are religious about another topic. Strong feelings that back you into a corner where you can only see one road out will give you countless hours, days, weeks, months, and years of...
The Less Known Agility Start Line Issues

The Less Known Agility Start Line Issues

If you’ve been doing agility long enough, you know how fragile the start line is for many dogs. If you’ve never had an issue with your dog’s start line, consider yourself lucky. In this post, I want to discuss the less-known start line issues –...
Running or Stopped Contact Performance?

Running or Stopped Contact Performance?

Are you trying to decide whether your current or next dog should have running or stopped contacts? How do you decide which performance is best for you and your dog? What makes one contact performance preferable over the other? Since there are three very different...