You’ll remember that training hasn’t been going so well for Freya and me. We haven’t been doing very much training except for our minimum daily requirements of sit, down, stand or some combo thereof before meals. This is partly because I was debating about doing a thyroid panel, then doing it and waiting for the results. Also, partly because we both need a break from anything negative, and training and trialing were definitely becoming pretty negative.
I still try to keep up daily with the various dog training blogs in my feed reader. I read several agility blogs. Even though I have almost no interest in ever participating in agility myself, I have a lot of interest in some of the training methods discussed.
The last several posts on Susan Garrett’s agility training blog have been about recalls. Now there is something that the dogs and I definitely need work on. In fact, that is something that most people would (or should) admit needing to work on with their dogs. I’m still working through them, but the posts themselves as well as everyone’s insightful comments and questions are giving me a lot of food for thought.
Check it out if you want to see what I’m reading! Start out with Relationship Truce and go from there.
(NaBloPoMo | July ’10: 8 of 31)
If you like Neal Stephenson, whom I adore, you might try William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive. Sorry, not Rotties in it but good nonetheless. I just discovered your blog. Very interesting!
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Good call… that is one of my favorites! I’ve read most of William Gibson’s books, I think.