Thinking about biomechanics and biochemistry and dog agility
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | No Comments »Some trainers think that a collected curved jump is better for the dog than a flat fast jump and that that's a reason for higher jump heights. I've been musing on that and on other aspects of the dog's physical ...
Reading poodle history
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | No Comments »I've been doing some poodle history reading of late. I've been reading this book: Annie On Dogs which is a compendium of articles by Anne Rogers Clark, who had three dogs that she bred win Best in Show at Westminster. ...
Clicking and grooming…
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles, training | No Comments »Apparently, I am an idiot. Actually, scratch the "apparently." We have proof. I have been working on learning to groom the girls since the beginning of 2008, when I started feeling the pinch of the cost of grooming two dogs. I ...
Strict criterion…
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffNote to self: the singular of criteria is criterion. Dogs need to be held to a single new criterion at a time. Thus, if you are asking the poodle to run over the top of the a-frame, you don't also ...
I’m Diana and I have a problem…
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »This morning I was at the grocery store, and I noticed that steak was on sale, for a very nice price. What was my first thought? Not, as you might think, "oh maybe we'll have steak for dinner!" No, it ...
Elly: part-time poodle, part-time wild beast
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 2 Comments »After my lesson with Debbie today (which went surprisingly well) (including some (I can hear you yawning!) teeter training), I headed over the the park with the girls. I let them off leash about 50 yards into the park, and ...
One more reason to go to the park with the dogs…
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI take the girls out to Sandy River Delta Park a few times a week. It's good for their fitness to run and play off-leash. It helps keep them somewhat sociable (although they have serious fence issues!). It's good for ...
Teeter Training Report…
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffYep. Another one. Debbie and I worked out two more things to add to the teeter training basket. (Summary below.) Now that Dancer is more comfortable with the tip, we put the teeter against a 24" table, so that she walked down ...
Moment of panic…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »I had a moment of horrendous panic today with Dancer... she's fine now but... quite a story so take a deep breath. She was jumping out of the car, seemed fine, then every time she went to put ...
The demon poodle does the chute
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in Photos, life with poodles | Comments Off[caption id="attachment_913" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Elly flies out of the chute: photo by Nina Sage"][/caption]