Choosing Music in Canine Freestyle

The question is: How do you choose music?
People’s responses:
Anne says:
I look for music that rhythm fits the rhythm of my dogs movement. For
me that is when the magic happens and the illusion of dance is created.
A lot of beautiful, exciting music has titles that would have nothing
to do with a dog handler relationship when it [...]

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Murphy’s Oil Soap

Found the following write up here: WGD Facts
What Makes a Good Dog Shampoo?
I’ve been using Murphy’s Oil Soap to bathe dogs for at least 10 years since I first heard it was a mild, organic shampoo that killed fleas. Before using it on my dogs, I called the company and verified the information [...]

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I do Dog Tricks

Discovered this while browsing around.
Mike’s  Humour Blog.  He has listed “I do Dog Tricks“.   It’s a cute.
you type in various commands and she’ll do them:   roll over, wave hi, jump, kiss, vogue, diva, beg, sit, spin, jump, shake a paw, dance, kiss etc.

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Channel Weaves – closing the gap

People will often mention they have a problem being able to close channel weaves all the way down, and wonder what they can do to help their dog learn to weave properly.

use wire guides or chicken wire. Attach the wire guides OR get 24″ tall chicken wire. Wired the cages to the poles. Push [...]

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Make Your Own Metal Weave Poles

First off…here’s a PVC weave pole base.
Jan says:
I have made a metal base weave pole using 2 1/4″ aluminum flat bar. You can drill thru this with a regular drill. Right now I have just set it up with my stick in the ground weave poles going into the ground. [...]

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Teaching the Weaves

Arguably one of the toughest obstacles to teach a good, independent and fast performance.
Things to keep in mind:

you want your dog focusing on the weaves and making decisions, not focusing on you.
you want your dog to get the correct entry regardless of where you are standing
you want your dog to do them as quickly as [...]

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Rabbit housing

Okay… as you might or might not know, we raise rabbits. We keep them outside because … well…it works for us. They are safe, relatively easy to care for and no smell.
We have some babies that need to be tamed so I thought I’d look into some options for [...]

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China, poisons and dogs toys

So one of the forums that I am on pointed me to this article.   It’s about how many dog toys are made in China and how many of them contain toxic ingredients.
Anyways, that article pointed my way to a couple of make your own dog toy sites.
Fleece tug ropes and dishtowel tugs.
This of course led [...]

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Different types of Agility

Did you know there was such a thing as fish agility? Neither did I. Total shocker.
Also rabbit agility. here’s a home page.
and Cat agility. international page.
Sheep agility. This is a you-tube page.
Rat agility too!  check it out.
And since they had rat agility I just had to check [...]

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Tunnels – How to Stabilize them

Tunnels can be difficult to move and difficult to keep in place once you have them where you want them. Big dogs can shift them around, the wind can blow them out of place, and hard-hitting dogs can move them back a foot or two. So keeping them in place becomes important, particularly [...]

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