Training for a Happy, Confident and Motivated Performance Dog:
Reinforcement-Based Training
NEW: August 2023
New SERIES: PROOFING SCENT ARTICLES
Learning about CONTAINER ORDER SOURCING IN SCENT WORK has provided Beckett with some fun new ways to transfer these sniffing skills to scented articles offering fun thinking puzzles.
To date: X formation; T formation; Circle
Slack Line Fun - ProprioceptionSlack Line Fun: Using the lines for amazing balance & proprioception
NEW BLOG POST-February 2023:
One Dogs's Journey Surviving Bladder Cancer
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Meet HC Beckett
"I LOVE everyone I meet and want to greet them with a big kiss. I especially LOVE children and training with my Mom." " Follow Beckett's as he grows up from a puppy to an adult in photos and video: socialization, balance discs, tricks, obedience training and herding. |
Meet HC Myst![]() Everything I do is FAST..... Some judges love to watch me since I am a little crazy in all the sports I do. I LOVE herding, have finished my obedience titles and now have so much fun with scent work. I am now 12 years old and just finished my AKC Herding Champion title. Of course running on trails is my very favorite sport. |
Favorite Pages...
- Pressure Games: Why did my dog NQ in the ring?
PRESSURE IN THE OBEDIENCE RING... See the effects of pressure from the judge in utility directed jumping.
Then the games created to help with this pressure. Other games for obedience: signals, command discrimination, backing into pressure, heeling, fronts
- Pivoting to Lovely Heeling
- How I Taught Utility Scent Articles
- Shaping the Dumbbell Retrieve
- Puppy body Awareness
- Advancing With Core Strength - Helping to Prevent Injuries
- Iliopsoas Rehab. one dog's successful journey back to health
- Update to Iliopsoas Rehab
- Nosework for teaching utility scent articles
- Puppy Fun 8-12 weeks old, and every 4 months.
READ This Before You Euthanize Your Dog - Canine Vestibular Disease
This page is being reprinted and added to with new resources since my blog page on vestibular is so popular. A friend asked me to include some of her new resources to help those whose senior dog experiences these scary balance and equilibrium symptoms that have a sudden onset. I am finding from correspondences from around the world that even vets might not be recognizing what the dog is presenting with. Many like myself believed that our dog was having a stroke; others that their dog needed to be euthanized. Our wish is that this information will help you support your dog during their vestibular syndrome so you both will have many more happy days together.
- Pressure Games: Why did my dog NQ in the ring?
PRESSURE IN THE OBEDIENCE RING... See the effects of pressure from the judge in utility directed jumping.
Then the games created to help with this pressure. Other games for obedience: signals, command discrimination, backing into pressure, heeling, fronts
- Pivoting to Lovely Heeling
- How I Taught Utility Scent Articles
- Shaping the Dumbbell Retrieve
- Puppy body Awareness
- Advancing With Core Strength - Helping to Prevent Injuries
- Iliopsoas Rehab. one dog's successful journey back to health
- Update to Iliopsoas Rehab
- Nosework for teaching utility scent articles
- Puppy Fun 8-12 weeks old, and every 4 months.
READ This Before You Euthanize Your Dog - Canine Vestibular Disease
This page is being reprinted and added to with new resources since my blog page on vestibular is so popular. A friend asked me to include some of her new resources to help those whose senior dog experiences these scary balance and equilibrium symptoms that have a sudden onset. I am finding from correspondences from around the world that even vets might not be recognizing what the dog is presenting with. Many like myself believed that our dog was having a stroke; others that their dog needed to be euthanized. Our wish is that this information will help you support your dog during their vestibular syndrome so you both will have many more happy days together.