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Gustavo is a science project.

Gustavo is a science project. Last week he got blood pulled again, the only way to…

May, 15, 2012

Officer Ottercop and the rules of Frisbee.

Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, here is an important rule. If you can…

May, 14, 2012

An offering of the burden of unwanted advice.

Meta lessons learned: Many sporty quotes say that if you don’t give up on your journey…

May, 13, 2012

He just walked across the street and handed this to me.

Team Small Dog, by the totally awesome Gabe who lives across the street.…

May, 13, 2012

An exercise in patience.

When you have animals, it helps to be a very patient person. I work with animals…

May, 9, 2012

Practice with the Team-Dog show debrief.

Of course we went to practice today. I mean, what else are we going to do?…

May, 8, 2012

Sticking to the plan, with a bonus jumpers, just because.

Sometimes agility is hard for Gustavo, and sometimes it isn’t. It wasn’t here. This is agility…

May, 7, 2012

Stick with the Plan.

The plan was, just run several obstacles for every run at the next dog show with…

May, 6, 2012

Everybody needs a fort.

If you are a small dog, sometimes you need a fort. A fort is anywhere a…

May, 5, 2012

So here's one with a mini meltdown. There was a jump that was set too high, I stop

Gustavo doing some learning in dog school.

Here’s some videos from Gustavo’s class with Nancy. Thanks Jen for videoing! So here’s one with…

May, 2, 2012

Back to basics.

Gustavo’s whole agility practice today was spent learning how to catch a wooly ring on his…

May, 1, 2012

April USDAA, the second part, which is pretty much along the lines of the first part.

I wish I could report that Gustavo was back to his shining star self, but he…

Apr, 30, 2012

The April USDAA trial at Manzanita Park, once again.

We had a hard day at the dog show. Not as hard as Mary, though, who’s…

Apr, 29, 2012

Hello from yer old pals, Team Small Dog.

Otterpop has been working very, very hard. She now knows how to drive a tractor and…

Apr, 27, 2012

She works for tennis balls.

The dogs are having a busy month. Yes, there are 2 weekends of dog shows coming…

Apr, 19, 2012

Here's Otterpop doing her fast running.

And here's Wings, showing us how it's supposed to look.

Practicing with the team.

Otterpop is getting all prepped for World Team Tryouts. OK, not really. But we did practice…

Apr, 17, 2012

Important Dog Agility news alert-how everything you know about Dog Agility can be applied to Salsa Dancing.

Recently a new dance craze hit the Santa Cruz Dog Agility Community and this dance craze…

Apr, 16, 2012

A better idea for the USDAA Nationals, from yer pal, Otterpop.

Click-n-print and send to your Congresspeople and Senators. Send to Obama. Send to Mitt Romeny. Put…

Apr, 12, 2012

Here's a video of Gustavo. Because he's cute.

Do this with your Robot.

Robot is our friend on days I want to work on being far, far away from…

Apr, 11, 2012

A scientific dog training analysis of Jacked Up.

When I practice, I want the dogs to always be very fast, in scientific terms, ZOOM…

Apr, 10, 2012

Easter Agility at Dixon USDAA.

We haven’t been to Dixon in a long time. I’m not sure why, because it’s in…

Apr, 9, 2012

A happy easter from yer pal, Otterpop.

While we celebrate this holy day by driving up to Dixon for a dog show and…

Apr, 7, 2012

An era ends, which means another one is a gotta start, isn’t that right?

I have never been one to suggest a group hug. That’s not my thing. If you…

Apr, 5, 2012

A dream of a life where nothing is being chopped up into small bits which has calmness and larger cabins and beautiful fairies.

You know at the end of the movie Fargo, and Frances McDormand sneaks around out back…

Apr, 4, 2012