Tips, Articles, & Thoughts From Dog Agility Coach And Competitor Daisy Peel
Follow Alice’s puppy training journey with first outings, basement confidence building, and essential crate games plus blender and Dremel habituation updates.
Follow Alice’s calm first agility trial weekend: gentle puppy exposure, stress-free hotel and travel, and simple training sessions that build confidence.
Discover Alice’s puppy training plan: focus on foundational tools—markers, engagement, equipment habituation, baselines, recalls, and neutrality—before behaviors.
Follow Daisy’s whirlwind trip to California to bring home Alice, a Belgian Malinois puppy, and dive into her full puppy training journey from day one.
Follow Alice’s first full day home: potty wins, play, meeting cats, and short marker-cue training sessions that build a solid puppy foundation.
This is the second of a few emails I’ll be sending out as a recap of my recent week at The Michael Ellis School For Dog Trainers in Santa Rosa, CA, where I attended Kynology 4.0, a symposium on modern dog training. My brain is pretty full right now, so I’ll be splitting this in to several emails, and then converting them to blog posts here at daisypeel.com.