Year: 2013

Sometimes the dogs just plain need a chase a ball to get rid of excess energy. Pebbles and Callie enjoy chasing a ball together

We feed Callie her dinner in a couple of kongs. They make eating dinner more work, which helps drain some of her excess energy.

We teach wait for several reasons. The main one is to get a dog to stop moving when given the "wait" command. That can work…

We are working on Abby’s obedience commands at a further distance when we go in our walks in the neighborhood. She’s doing great!

Abby and Luca are learning how to play appropriately. Chasing is good, but tackling is not! They also need to break it up when I…

Abby attended her first indoor class tonight. Being closed in with lots of people she didn’t know was hard for her! She coped well with…

Callie likes to watch everything that’s going on. That’s fine as long as she’s sitting nicely next to her handler. She’s doing great with distractions.

During training class, Grady has to learn to ignore distractions. He knows he doesn’t need to worry about what’s going on because I’ve got his…

Pebbles is sleeping on the floor because he wasn’t invited up on the couch. He doesn’t seem to mind!

Abby tried her hand, or should I say “nose”, at search and rescue this morning. She was a little hesitant at first, but she completed…