Tips, Articles, & Thoughts From Dog Agility Coach And Competitor Daisy Peel
Have you ever told someone you’re “just here for fun” when you really weren’t? There’s a reason so many of us play it down, and it has a name. And no, wanting to excel never meant being hard on your dog.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Is there a part of your training you never film? Not because you forgot. Because you’d rather not watch it. Whatever it is, I’d bet it’s the part that hasn’t improved in years. Here’s why, and the thing I got wrong for about ten years that taught me.
Buying yet another online course FEELS like taking action to solve a training problem, but is it? At some point, you’re gonna have to dig and get down to doing the sometimes messy work of training the dog in front of you.
Anything less than that perfect weekend hands you a list. It may feel like a consolation prize, but it’s genuinely more useful than a perfect weekend (although your ego may not agree!). You may not have come home with a ribbon for your efforts, BUT, you arguably came home with something even better when it comes to your overall journey of self-improvement through dog training and dog sport!
Are you a stranger to your dog on the start line? At home you lead out without thinking about it. At a trial your hand is tighter, you walk faster, and right before you release you stop breathing. Your dog figured all of that out before you got past the first jump.
You finished every online course. You did the homework, you filmed the reps. Your dog holds that startline at home every single time — and then at the trial he’s gone before you’ve got both feet turned around. The next online course probably isn’t the answer.