Abby has a title. And by the look on my face you can see that I couldn't be happier. Who would've thought 3 years ago that this litt...

vs I've never owned/lived with/worked with a true working dog. I've asked both mole and Abby to work for/with me, but th...

Abby's sit-stays are falling apart. She either pops up right away or goes directly into a down. . . I'm not entirely sure why this ...

Abby got her second leg today towards her RL1 with a score of 204 and 5th place! That is one point more than we got last time, with the same...

We have a Rally trial coming up in 2 weeks and Abby and I need to polish up a few basic skills. We also need to seriously start training for...

Abby and I had a run thru this past Friday. We almost didn't go because the weather man was calling for S.N.O.W. Really? At sea level in...

After a unscheduled hiatus from training classes, we finally went back this past Sunday. The first thing we were required to do, write down ...

There are many important parts to training a retrieve, the most important one is probably the dog picking up the item it is supposed to retr...

A few posts ago I said that I needed a break from dogs, and that we were going to take a break from training. I was hoping that the traini...

There have been many times in my life when I was worried for something that, looking back seemed so trivial. I would would get anxious, ner...

Its taken me a long time to get to this; partly because things have been so hectic and partly because it took me a long time to process all ...

Some days I feel like I am pretty good at training Abby, and some day I feel like I need need remedial lessons. Lately, Abby has been doing...

Abby and I went to another Rally Run Thru this past Friday in preparation for our upcoming trial in October. We went to one last month too,...

Abby and I went to our first rally run thru last night. I was a bit nervous, but figured that it would be a really good learning experience ...

I haven't written a whole lot lately about Abby's training mainly because we took a few weeks off. In the past year and a half we ha...

I was feeling pretty low earlier this week, but an awesome Rally class was just what we needed to get back on track. Abby did awesome in cla...

This has been a terrific weekend all around for Abby. Not only did she do well at the fun match, but she also did great in Rally class yeste...

Abby had a really bad agility practice this week. It looked like she didn't want to be there. She barely did anything. . .It was so frus...

The time changed and it brought not only more light, but better weather. The kids and I have been enjoying some extra walks in the evenings ...