Poodles, Dog Agility, Dog Training… and Knitting

Archive for August, 2011

Real research (OR why haven’t I seen this article before?)

Monday, August 15th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments Off

Anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessive about research. This article: Training Frequency Research is about how often to train a dog for optimum learning. (I'll note that I haven't seen this article before because it just came online ...

Back to training Rush….

Sunday, August 14th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments Off

Rush and the curly girlies went off to stay with friends for a week while Jay and I visited his family. While I desperately missed the dogs, it was nice not to have to devote every waking minute to making ...

Right-front foot target (OR what are your criteria?)

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 Posted in training | Comments Off

Rush is beginning to really get the hang of this clicker training thing. Keeping in mind that he's been with me for only three weeks, and in that time I've tried to do a bit of clicker training every day, ...

Training 24/7

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Posted in training | Comments Off

Jay's brother and his family were visiting for a few days, and I kept on training with Rush, which inspired Jay's brother to comment that I spent all my time training him. Well, yes, I do. Rush is a baby--12 weeks ...