When It’s Time For A Break
When It's Time For A Break Article & Photography By: Deborah Lee Miller-Riley (Article Excerpt) As a canine watersports judge, I have witnessed thousands of great dogs compete for watersports titles. While I always share the excitement of triumph and commend qualifiers for their success and skill, what I appreciate most in a team is not based on whether they pass. It is their display of partnership, a team performance radiating trust, focus and mutual joy. It is a good handler who knows the difference between when discipline and pressure can guide her dog to a joyful performance, and when pressure should be removed ...
I Do Agility With Whippets!
I Do Agility With Whippets! Article By: By Adele McNiven. Photography Credit: Linda McRae, Views by Linda Photography - Fine Art and Action Photography by Linda (Article Excerpt) I do agility with whippets. I know, I know. They are not known to be great agility dogs. They aren’t even known to be OK agility dogs but they are my breed and I am President of the Whippet Club so I persist. I believe that you can do agility with any breed if you stop expecting spectacular progress. Well, you should expect progress, but it just takes a bit more time with a sighthound. At first I thought that ...
Ringside With Steve Teer!
Ringside With Steve Teer, Founder of Disc Dogs of the Golden Gate Article By: Donna J Wade. Photography Credit: Howard George/MaxDogPhotos, http://www.maxdogphotos.com (Article Excerpt) DW: What got you interesting in Disc Dog? ST: When my first dog, Guinness Stout, was about 18 months old, I was channel surfing and found the Alpo World Canine Disc Championships on Animal Planet. I was blown away by what these dogs could do and knew this was something I had to learn more about. I found a club on the Internet and entered a competition the following month. Guinness and I started training! We took third at the competition and ...
Land Treadmill for the Canine Athlete
Article By: Dr. Debbie Gross Saunders Photography Provided By Shor-Line, http://www.shor-line.com/ (Article Excerpt) Treadmills are a very useful tool for the any dog, but in particular, the performance dog. Walking outside with your dog is the best form of exercise but let’s face it, due to many reasons this is not always possible. Land treadmills become a useful tool for exercise, conditioning, endurance and cross training. And most of the time, they are very convenient to use. If any of the readers are like me, a well-trained dog on the land treadmill allows me to multi task and catch up on reading while ...
K9 Nose Work Part II
K9 Nose Work Part II Article By: Laurie Leach. Photography By Robert Ochoa. (Article Excerpt) K9 Nose Work Part II - Last year I wrote an article about the relatively new sport of K9 Nose Work after my first one-day seminar. This is the story of my year-long journey from that first workshop to the day in which I competed in my first trial. It is a tale of love, new-found trust, disappointment, and resilience. For those of you who missed that first article, just a short summary about this sport: K9 Nose Work is inspired by the methodology used to train professional detection dogs. ...
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When It’s Time For A Break
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Ringside With Steve Teer!
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I Do Agility With Whippets!
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Land Treadmill for the Canine Athlete
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Course BuilderEvery issue of DogSport magazine includes courses perfect for instructors and the backyard course builder. We will be getting rally courses up on this site soon but for now enjoy some of our recent maps as published in the Home Improvement section of the magazine. The title often suggests which piece of equipment or which maneuver is being focused... [Read more of this review]
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