Blogility

Here’s a question for those of you who ask your dogs to do sniffy activities with you: who determines where the odor is? Does the hide setter determine where the odor is? What about the handler?  In my opinion the…

This week in class we talked about why agility is so hard. The answer is: so many moving parts! You need to be good at 3 dimensional spaces, you are moving, the dog is moving FAST and that is BEFORE…

Today in sniffer class we discussed how to make rewarding our dogs exciting for the dogs! Not all dogs find food more reinforcing than chasing lizards or squirrels. Some dogs are just fine with hunting for all kinds of things…

This week in agility class I jokingly told someone to just “do it right”. We had a good chuckle, and I didn’t really mean it, but it sure slides off the tongue easily!   Actionable tag points are always better…

  That saying, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, can sometimes be true, even with people! We get stuck in our ways and have a hard time trying something new. You can find a way past the scariness…

When you design a lesson plan you have a grandiose idea like “students will execute conversions using Avogadro’s number to calculate grams of an element given the moles” and then you get into the classroom and you realize it’s more…