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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Dog Training as Morality?
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Dog Training as Morality? Training methodology and philosophy are often a hotly discussed and debated topic among those who train dogs with any degree of seriousness. Particularly among those of us who enjoy discussing training on internet groups and lists. The debates can get quite emotional at times, complete with indignation and hurt feelings flying high and fast. Did I really just say that? Yes, I did. A training philosoph...
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: First Freestyle Competition
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Sunday, March 4, 2012. Yesterday Tessa and I went to her first Freestyle competition, and it was a success in every way! So, I brought some things in and then brought Tessa in. I elected not to crate her because I wanted to watch the performances, and the crating was in a different room. Instead, I let her hang out on her mat at my feet. Later in the day I would take Tessa's traditional "Tessa on her mat" photo. Ready to go perform! She has her whole hea...
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Celebrating 50 Titles!!!
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Saturday, October 22, 2016. This past week, Tessa earned her 48th, 49th, and 50th titles: Expert Trick Dog, Cyber Rally-O Dance Division Pre-Bronze, and Level 4 All Dogs Parkour. This is an accomplishment that I never intended with any of my dogs (maybe 50 total, between all of them, but not 50 with one dog! But I am beyond pleased that Tessa and I have done this together! A snippet from an early blog about Tessa's training:. This girl adores chicken!
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Sometimes When a Door Closes . . .
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Sunday, October 13, 2013. Sometimes When a Door Closes . . . Sometimes when a door closes, a whole wall of sliding glass doors is flung open and the opportunities that come along are unexpected and absolutely delightful! Last February I had posted this:. After Dean was sidelined from Agility due to his hip issue last winter. I was wrong. So very wrong. So, we started taking classes through the Fenzi Academy, in hopes of finding that enjoyment. Now it is ...
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Here Comes the Sun
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Here Comes the Sun. And our final Level 2 Colors Q, which would finish our first ever Level 2 title! We are getting into the thick of it now, and it is getting to be very fun. Speedy, wearing his original sunshine collar. This was taken at Barkaritaville on the day he earned his Novice Title! Speedy and Dean at the Freestyle Festival. It's amazing how YOUNG they were! Speedy was 5 and Dean was just a little past 1 year old!
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Where They Take Us
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Friday, March 11, 2016. Where They Take Us. Dealing with the death of a once-in-a-lifetime dog is difficult in ways that I can't express, even when it has been more than two years after the fact! For the most part, life does go on. And there are times when I remember Speedy and smile, or even laugh a bit, or speak of him matter-of-factly without giving it a second thought. And it wasn't the music or use of familiar choreography, or anything like that.
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: "The Handler Gets the Dog he Deserves"
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Sunday, June 10, 2012. The Handler Gets the Dog he Deserves". Years ago, when I used to train at a different facility, those words were printed on a laminated card that hung on the wall of the training building. And I always hated them! Back then I was working with Speedy in his earliest stages of training and I often saw that sign and wondered, "What could I have done to deserve this. June 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM. June 11, 2012 at 4:50 AM. I Concede the Poi...
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: November 2016
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Yesterday Tessa earned her All Dogs Parkour Championship title! Tessa is a Parkour Champion! I am particularly excited about this because I really do love the mutually satisfying experiences that Tessa and I have had creating our Parkour entries for this venue. Tessa and I created a nice entry and we earned our Novice title, and that was very satisfying. And that is when we got into All Dogs Parkour. I found that I loved pack...
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures: Changes
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Tessa and Friends Dancing and Training Adventures. Friday, October 7, 2016. Bandit is now in Thursday night Agility class. He is not in class with Tessa - he has class first, and then she is in the next class. But, she is now sharing her Agility nights with Bandit. This is a change. It's a change for me - mostly a good change. It's a change for Bandit - all a good change. And it is a change for Tessa - I'm not quite sure whether it is a good change for her or not. Bandit was clearly as pleased as punch&#...
