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Moving pictures of Gustavo from the weekend.

Here is my handling strategy for Gustavo. Just run fast and call him by many of…

Jul, 3, 2012

Perfect practice makes perfect what?

Hey, first of all, say Congratulations to Otterpop for earning her Lifetime Achievement Bronze Award. She…

Jul, 2, 2012

Gustavo ran great, a short story accompanied by dogs that look possessed on the dogwalk which sort of has something to do with bathroom mirrors.

Photo credit: Lisa P. via facebook. Thanks Lisa!It was just so easy. He only runs jumpers…

Jul, 2, 2012

Saturday at the dog show, a fascinating report written while laying on frozen blueberries.

Not a bad dog show. One of the kind where I go to work and the…

Jul, 1, 2012

Why they call it work.

Me and Otterpop been working very hard. Sometimes, work is a lot of work. I guess…

Jun, 29, 2012

Did you rsvp?

The spaces are very limited! Make sure that you have emailed with Wendy to rsvp, I…

Jun, 27, 2012

The team is a little bit untethered at the moment. Truck.

Otterpop cares more about riding in the truck than agility. My truck, your truck, any truck.…

Jun, 26, 2012

Because barn dogs need a dog barn.

The dogs’ new barn has 5 stalls, of various sizes. They spent all day trying them…

Jun, 20, 2012

A special Team Small Dog review of Rock of Ages, so that you don’t have to go see it, unless for one of the 3 reasons you will read about.

Here is a good idea for a movie. If you were thinking of seeing the movie…

Jun, 19, 2012

Memo from the office : what the dogs should do at work.

Oh, there is running. Very popular. If at all possible, hold a frisbee located in mouth…

Jun, 18, 2012

Deflecting the marauding shnauzer ahpso hair band.

The hot day was turning to the cool time, so we walked over to the school…

Jun, 17, 2012

Every day, a dog and pony show.

No. I’m, not kidding. My life is a dog and pony show. Gustavo is the only…

Jun, 15, 2012

Miss Laura’s Dog and Pony Show.

Is there anything cuter than kids doing agility? I set up a teensy course with teensy…

Jun, 13, 2012

We are having a busy week. Can you spot some of the dogs?

All 3 of them are here, but I suppose you don’t see them, they are in…

Jun, 12, 2012

All about the attitudes, part 2, the addendum part that started as response to comments but now where I’ll explain you just a little more.

When I started doing agility, and first started competing, when was that-8 years ago, maybe, I…

Jun, 7, 2012

The thing about Attitudes.

It is not very easy to hurt my feelings these days. I have a very thick,…

Jun, 6, 2012

A day of DAM Team-from Point A to Point B.

Turlock is hot. It is located at Point B on this map. I live at Point…

Jun, 4, 2012

Where the question is, what was I thinking?

On Sunday we drive out to Turlock, out of our cool forests alongside the sea to…

Jun, 1, 2012

Dog agility memorialization of an invisible, unsung hero, the dog agility spouses.

You know who gets forgotten a lot? Besides all those who gave up their lives for…

May, 29, 2012

Stick to the plan sticks.

Stick in the mud. Stick ’em up. Stick with it.…

May, 28, 2012

A little bit further, into the woods.

I will admit that I have not been telling you many tales as of late. There…

May, 27, 2012

Scientific exploration continues.

Gustavo and I practiced on Monday morning. The exact same time, the exact same place as…

May, 22, 2012

Here's Otterpop doing a bit of a run. You can probably hear Ashley doing some teaching in there if you turn up the sound. Also some comments from the peanut gallery in the background. Maybe you would like to hire Ashley to teach you a seminar. Just please try to do it on a weekend we were not going to practice.

A classic dog agility weekend, the seminar.

Well, and also eclipse viewing. This was kind of cool. We made fancy viewing rigs since…

May, 21, 2012

Dogs that go to work, some of them working, some of them snoozing, some of them schmoozing.

At work, some of the dogs are helpers, and some of the dogs get to have…

May, 17, 2012