Archive for November, 2010

Contacts–what to do, what to do…

November 25, 2010

Ahhh, the million dollar question…how are you going to train your contacts?  Are you going to do running?  Are you going to do two on two off?  Four on the floor?  Trkman?  Stride Regulators?  It can almost make your head explode. Currently, I have a running aframe and dogwalk with Trip.  What most people don’t […]

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Back to Puppies…

November 21, 2010

I incorporate some of NILIF (Nothing in Life is Free) into living with a puppy–I think it helps really build that relationship. I’m not talking about keeping your puppy in some kind of sterile bubble away from any possible interesting stimulus except you, but just some basic concepts. I don’t give out cookies for looking […]

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Perfect!

November 21, 2010

Trip never ceases to amaze me. We did 3 days of agility this weekend, and she went 7/7, with 4 1sts and 3 2nds. I blew off FAST today to go home, but we still came home with 2 Double Qs and a Triple Q–that’s 20 QQs for Trip this year (she’s halfway to MACH3 […]

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