We shot some footage for a commercial at the start of September and it was just released this week. Pretty neat! Training the eye close ...

Ode To A Blown Coat This is a poem about dogs who blow coat. (Poodle owners, this is where you can gloat). If you’re lucky it’s twice, ...

Dog training tip o' the day: "How long should I use treats for reinforcement?" This is a question that gets asked a lot ...

Dog training tip o' the day: Punishment will shut down behaviour but it may not address the underlying cause.  Imagine you have a p...

I made a video! It was originally going to be to mark Cohen's 5th birthday, but I missed that deadline by a couple months. Whoops! But ...

Unfortunately it's cancer . So here's a photo of a puppy.  Puppy cancer. After having lost my mother to cancer 5 years ago t...

This past week has been a bit surreal. My father has been in the hospital since last Tuesday, and it's scaring the crap out of me. He ...

She's hot, but she's happy.

I was out of town for a wedding this weekend, and just about anyone who could have watched Cohen was out of town with me. So we boarded her....

Snow day. This is Diefenbaker, or Dief (pronounced Deef) for short. He was my family's first dog. We did everything wrong with him be...

No tail. Not a lot of brains either. Lately I've been thinking a lot about Cohen's tail, or lack thereof. The breed standard of...

Turns out I lied - I am going to post a video of our run yesterday. As I said, the plethora of rewards serve as pretty severe interruptions ...

Looking particularly calm in her crate at our fun match. Unfortunately I don't have any action photos. I have some video of our runs...

Because I am lazy and haven't felt much like typing this week. Agility fun match on Sunday. Fingers crossed that neither my dog nor I d...

Typical.  Her mouth is moving. Sound is coming out. This is never a good sign.