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Reflections of Self...
In many ways 2012 was a year of great growth for us- Team Agility Addict came together in some expected and unexpected ways.With House league, and CPE last winter and Spot On Trials over the summer we...
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Funny Thing Fate ...
Yen came into our life by fluke .. I was missing Wyn and a friend saw a little one in need of a foster home on Facebook. A Zuckerberg dog through and through, she landed and stuck here. She was the...
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One Hundred and Forty Four Months
Or four thousand three hundred and eighty days,Or perhaps one hundred and five thousand one hundred and twenty hours?Heck 6,307,200 minutes captures the magnitude of Brody's time in my heart and life...
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I wish I wasn't an expert ...
but loss has been part of my life (across species- including human) for many years now.In light of that, and in light of the recent grief with Wyn, in the hope it might help somebody I present to you...
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As humans we make choices every time we interact with our companion animals. A standard catch phrase of training is "every interaction is training". That is, don't expect your dog to sit at a door as...
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Lori Bergman wrote the following (excerpted here)"Three yards of black fabric enshroud my computer terminal. I am mourning the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense.His obituary reads as...
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Cross Training ... work it baby
The dogs around here have a pretty easy time maintaining fitness - they get, in all but the most exceptional of cold, road walks of at least 1.5 km a day (Sam and Sally usually get 2 road walks), runs...
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the Princess gets a turn
perhaps in celebration of her first birthday Sally actually let Yen have one of the couch cushions!
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how do you help heal a broken heart?
You do exactly what the circle of people around us have done over the past six weeks.Accept that there is a hurt there that you may or may not understand. No matter what your own experience of grief is...
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Bob
HA! Was looking at my post lists and the drafts waiting for update/revision etc - found this one"Bob". I don't know a Bob. No clue where I was intending to go - so instead, a (sort of) Wordless...
View Articlethere is a list going around
there is a list published in a British paper of 50 things your dogs should get to do in their life timehttp://www.realdogsrealpeople.com/50-things-to-do-before-you-die-if-youre-a-dogMy own quick scan...
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Peanut Butter
I HATE peanut butter.Don't ask me why. I like butter and I like peanuts.Don't ask me how the aversion developed. There was peanut butter around in my house.Makes no sense to me.But there it is.HATE the...
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It Really Didn't Matter
The internationalization (what a word!) of agility seemed mighty irrelevant in my life until we were asked to blog about the topic as part of our quarterly blogger day.I play agility. I love agility,...
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oh here comes spring!
and sproing!Lovely walk/atv run at farm today with the youth! Snow is still deep for the oldies to battle through it but Yen , Sam and Sally had a blast helping us cut wood then running to the ridge...
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What a smelly weekend!New class started Friday night!Crazy location -we were between dogs barking in the adjacent hall and dogs barking waiting to get picked up for day care. It was a wee bit chaotic...
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Srsly? yah seriously ...
"Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else,...
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Yen got to demo her scent game today at class -her fourth time playing the game at all, and her second time as part of her class and she clearly understands the basic rules ...Sheila was generous...
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Life is Learning; Learning is Life
Facilitator, trainer, educator, teacher, instructor, counselor, coach call me what you will there is no doubt that teaching runs through my veins. Twenty years in a classroom and more years of...
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the power of positive ...
I was looking at the mandate,mission statement, etc of the Pet Professional Guild the other day. Lots of really great stuff in there. It got me thinking. My life with dogs horses and people have...
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