Vlog:  Lucky x Alice Puppies

Vlog: Lucky x Alice Puppies

When Alice had her puppies in March, I had great intentions of posting weekly updates on everything we were doing as they grew.  Life in general and the reality of taking care of puppies got in the way of that, but we did take lots of photos and videos as they were...

Puppies!

Puppies!

In the very early hours of St. Patrick's Day, Alice welcomed her first litter of puppies into the world.  It was an easy delivery, probably helped along by the fact that Alice was in great shape prior to breeding.  Having puppies in the house again is exciting, since...

Fixing It in the Whelping Box

Fixing It in the Whelping Box

There’s an old saying in dog shows, “Fix it in the whelping box, not the tack box”. I found myself thinking of a variation of this phrase at a hunt test this weekend, as handlers expressed frustration with their dogs’ problem behaviors on the hunt field.  While...

Vlog:  Scent Work Interior Master

Vlog: Scent Work Interior Master

AKC Master Interior is one of my favorite scent work classes to run, but it's a class that seems to cause a lot of anxiety among handlers. In this class, the dog and handler team must successfully search three rooms, each of which may have between zero and three...