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Teaching the Heel has always been difficult for me. Plus, it is what Novice Obedience is all about!  Ugh.
So it’s time to teach Tatum to heel. And I want her to have a nice solid fun heeling that she will do even without treats. Ha! It’s a challenge with this girl, because she [...]

Whew! What a weekend! I am dead tired. At the end of the first day I thought having a 3 day ASCA trial was a great idea (ASCA  is Australian Shepherd Club of America). However, today, after the third day was over, I think two days are better!  I’m dead tired. So are my dogs, [...]

I am so thrilled! I took Tatum and Muffit out to the local agility barn today and Tatum did so great!
She is a maniac on the A-Frame! Well, no, not a maniac, LOL, but she’s fast and not afraid at all. I thought she might be afraid of the contacts and I’m so glad [...]

For some reason Tatum just touched my heart as soon as she came into our home and I couldn’t let her go.  That was just over a year now.
I’m a strong leader of my dog pack.  The dogs stay in line, listen to me, do as I say, and respect me as leader. Even the [...]

Well, I am learning, yet again, all about dog training all over again! At least it sure seems like it. I didn’t really know how to train Lucy, I will admit. Lucy was a sweet young girl, when she was young. However, she was, first and foremost, a girl. And unlike my sweet [...]

Okay so this part of clicker training has escaped me from the first day I started clicker training. yeah I know I’m a dork sometimes. It’s really hard for me to learn out of a book. I love to read, I love to learn about dog behavior and clicker training and how it works… [...]

Well… I’ve been working with Tatum some. Not as much as I should, I know… but what the heck. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have a big training day. The advantage to having six dogs is that if I am only supposed to work a dog for five to fifteen minutes each, and I’m in training [...]

I just have to say thank you thank you thank you to those of you who have emailed with me who have, or know about, Tatum’s siblings. In rescue it’s just so rare to actually know where litter mates have gone. I guess in a situation like a collector it might be more common. But [...]

So last night as I’m online and fighting with the wireless router to get more bandwidth from my husband… he, my husband, says I have to go into the computer room and have a look at something. I was hoping he wasn’t gonna yell at me for stealing bandwidth, lol, but I went anyway and [...]

Well, it’s been a year. Can you believe it? It’s been a year since Tatum joined our home. Of course at first I didn’t think she’d stay. I was going to place her in a loving home. But I couldn’t let her go. And still, even a year later, I’m overjoyed that she is still [...]