Tips, Articles, & Thoughts From Dog Agility Coach And Competitor Daisy Peel
This is the first 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
If you’re gonna get zapped for something, is it better to know about it, or to NOT know about it? And why are we talking about this before Valentine’s Day??!?
In this podcast with Ivan Balabanov of Training Without Conflict, we go deeper into the sport of agility and compare it with other dog sports. We talk about what it really means to select and train dogs for the world stage versus training a pet dog simply to provide an outlet and maintain a healthy, balanced mind.
Here’s something different from last weekend…a LOWlight reel. All the imperfections from last weekend that I managed to get on video. Why bother showing the good stuff, even? There’s plenty of that out there already, contributing to the fantasy. Here’s some reality.
In this episode, I join Andrew on The Doggy Stoic podcast to talk about high-level agility competition, the Kynology Agency-Accountability Framework, and why I’m open about using complete training methods. We discuss the Kynology workshop I hosted in Ohio, the politics around training approaches in agility, and what it means to prioritize dog welfare through clarity and realistic expectations rather than ideology. If you’ve ever wondered why some of us talk openly about using all four quadrants while others stay quiet, this conversation gets into the real reasons behind that divide.
The Doggie Stoic on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doggiestoic
You’re going to want to read (or watch) this one, if not for YOU, then for a loved one…. You know that person at the trial who seems to have it all together? Maybe their dog is flying, and their handling is smooth as silk, but also, maybe they’re struggling but still smiling, still showing