Shyla is continuing to make huge strides with our new training. To be honest, it's not really all that "new" - it's primar...

Today is the first positive training bloghop. It's been a long day but I really want to participate because I love training my dogs usin...

In the winter, our agility course is swamped by snow. It never melts until April so I am thinking about my training goals for Shyla this win...

Something extraordinary has happened. Shyla, who was so afraid of strangers and most of the world when she arrived with us 14 months ago, ha...

As I've talked about many times here, I use positive training techniques with my dogs, rewarding behaviors that I like and ignoring ones...

We've had a deluge for the past few days, a huge contrast to the recent hot and dry weather that had the locals scanning the horizon for...

It seems that Shyla has hit a serious fear period, and I'm not sure why. She had a couple of skittish visits to town, in places that she...

I have been continuing the rewarding process of socializing Shyla. Since I never take out my camera in town when we are doing our training, ...

We went directly from winter to spring in a few days. Look at the green grass! We were all out for a sunset hike yesterday evening. It wa...