I have once again not posted here in a long time. Just about a year, I believe, which is pretty bad. I haven’t been having a good time competing with Raafael in agility and it turns out there’s a very good reason for that. My little monkey has Medial Shoulder Syndrome (MSS). It is classified […]
Rant
Spoiler alert: The stuff you do outside of the ring matters just as much (or more) than what happens in it.
It’s Dog Agility Blog Action Day and the topic is “Outside the Ring”. Unshockingly, it’s given me a reason to rant. I rant a lot. But, well, why the hell else have a blog, amirite? I have ended up annoyed at just about every agility event I’ve ever gone to. There’s usually a number of […]
Purely Positive? I don’t think that means what you think it means.
So, don’t get me wrong, I love Denis Fenzi. Even the random tips she gives out for free on her blog have had a big impact on my training and bring out the best in my dog (and upping the fun by about a million percent). But I read her latest blog post and it […]
It’s Agility Blogger Action Day! This time we’re talking about “Ways to Improve Agility Organizations”
It’s that time again for Agility Blogger Action Day, where all us dog agility bloggers get together to have opinions about the same thing, like talkative synchronized swimmers (but with dogs), for your enjoyment. Full disclosure: I have been competing for less than a year. Before that I liked agility, but certainly wasn’t versed in it beyond “Dog goes […]
RANT: How +R Trainers Hurt Their Own Cause
AKA: Positive Reinforcement, you’re doing it wrong. I am a convert to positive reinforcement training. I started out using punitive based methods (though I didn’t really understand what that meant at the time) but came to realize that using pain to correct really wasn’t the answer. I am passionate and opinionated about this, and I defend my […]
RANT: Puppies as Prizes for toddler beauty pageants? What the f$%^?!?!?!
So, I just read this article on Dogster, and my head nearly exploded. If you haven’t heard of TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras than you’ve obviously been living under a rock. I don’t even own a television and I’ve still been subjected to clips of this monstrosity. It’s all about the crazy screwed up world of child […]
“My Dog Is Friendly!” Shout, Yea or Nea?
Art by the wonderfully talented Lili Chin at Doggie Drawings. I guess there is a bit of a debate going around about the pros and cons of people shouting “My dog is friendly” before approaching, such as in this article (which is actually in response to this well written blog post), and I thought I’d […]
Whoops, went a month without updating again
Gasp! I am being a neglectful blogger. I must rectify this. I was holding off a bit before our next fun show, and then we sucked (read: I sucked and my dog picked up on it and proceeded to suck as well) and basically I spent the next few days having a fit. I don’t like […]
Bit of a follow up to the rant
Well, just to make things confusing, the internet also gives you crap advise sometimes. Like this info chart (which, while pretty, is nearly impossible to follow) that basically says unless you have a yard you can’t have a dog. Only one of the residencies I’ve been in since I moved back to Nova Scotia had […]
Rant: How in the world is my dog not a mental patient?
So, I recently found out that my dog was adopted out and returned twice before he came home with me. Which means he was in potentially five homes and two shelters in the first nine months of his life, a fact that I find completely dumbfounding. He is pretty much everything you could want in […]
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