Training Your Performance Dog

Obedience: The Foundation of All We Do with Our...
By Carolyn Fuhrer AKC defines its obedience program as trials set up to demonstrate the dog’s ability to follow specified routines in the obedience ring to emphasize the usefulness...
Obedience: The Foundation of All We Do with Our...
By Carolyn Fuhrer AKC defines its obedience program as trials set up to demonstrate the dog’s ability to follow specified routines in the obedience ring to emphasize the usefulness...

Building Confidence and Desire
By Carolyn Fuhrer Successful tracking comes from the dog wanting to follow the scent you have indicated to them. In this case, the scent of the “start article.” You must...
Building Confidence and Desire
By Carolyn Fuhrer Successful tracking comes from the dog wanting to follow the scent you have indicated to them. In this case, the scent of the “start article.” You must...

Reactive or Aggressive - What’s in a Name?
By Carolyn Fuhrer With more dogs being adopted and more dog events being offered, we need to look at our responsibility to our dog and to other dogs that...
Reactive or Aggressive - What’s in a Name?
By Carolyn Fuhrer With more dogs being adopted and more dog events being offered, we need to look at our responsibility to our dog and to other dogs that...

Agility – Routines Build Confidence
Most of us who compete have very good dogs in class, at home, or wherever we go to play with them. Why then is it sometimes different when we...
Agility – Routines Build Confidence
Most of us who compete have very good dogs in class, at home, or wherever we go to play with them. Why then is it sometimes different when we...

The Importance of Starting Out Correctly
by Carolyn Fuhrer One of the greatest games you can play with your dog is teaching them to use their sense of smellto find a great reward. Dogs like to...
The Importance of Starting Out Correctly
by Carolyn Fuhrer One of the greatest games you can play with your dog is teaching them to use their sense of smellto find a great reward. Dogs like to...

Thoughts For The New Year: Why Do We Compete?
by Carolyn Fuhrer With a new year starting, many people like to reflect upon the year’s past events and set goalsfor the new year. I encourage my students to set...
Thoughts For The New Year: Why Do We Compete?
by Carolyn Fuhrer With a new year starting, many people like to reflect upon the year’s past events and set goalsfor the new year. I encourage my students to set...