Northfield Natter: The Ups and Downs of Trialing

I found Adele Yunck’s blog post a good reminder that everyone has their ups and downs. It’s  important to recognize them as such and not focus on the negative. Read her post….

Totally Fetching

Totally Fetching: Teaching & Proofing a Reliable Retrieve is Adele Yunck’s update to the long-popular 1995 VHS video, Positively Fetching: Teaching the Obedience Retrieves Using Food. She kept the best of the original video and redid the rest, adding a section on building your dog’s hold, and greatly enhancing the proofing section. This 73-minute DVD [...]

Goals Revisited – October 18, 2009

When you are first learning a new sport, it is difficult to understand how to get to the end goal that the sport requires, because you haven’t made that journey before. This can be a frustrating aspect of learning a new sport. I’ve spent the past four months training my two Flat-Coats for AKC hunt [...]

Dealing with Disappointment – Adele Yunck

This email from Adele sure struck home for me. I know a lot of you will appreciate her article about NQs. Read on…. I tell you all of that to say I have been in the ring a lot this year, and it has not all been good. I’ve had my ups and downs, as [...]

A Call for Balance in Dog Training, by Margie English, NY

The following article is shared with permission. It may be forwarded, as long as Margie English’s name is attached. When I first read this, I liked the message so much that I wanted to share it with as many people as I could, because I think Margie makes many excellent points. I hope you enjoy [...]

Training with Limited Space or Time

From Adele Yunck With the onset of cold and wintery weather here in the north, many people have limited training time because of darkness and bad weather. While I have the luxury of space because I have a training building in my back yard, I don’t always have the luxury of a lot of time [...]

Open Training Concepts

I’d like to explore some of the concepts I typically include when working on maintaining and polishing the Open exercises. They are training ideas that I frequently include when working on a given exercise with one of my dogs. One overall concept in all of my training is that of varying the time I wait [...]