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Training Your Performance Dog
Carolyn Fuhrer
Carolyn Fuhrer has earned over 80 AKC titles with her Golden Retrievers, including 2 Champion Tracker titles. Carolyn is the owner of North Star Dog Training School in Somerville, Maine. She has been teaching people to understand their dogs for over 25 years. You can contact her with questions, suggestions, and ideas for her column by e-mailing carolyn@dogsatnorthstar.com.
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Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Mar 01Stress and Our Dogs Today there is more and more focus on how stress affects our health. These same concepts also apply to our dogs. We, as ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jan 01Thoughts For The New Year: Why Do We Compete? With a new year starting, many people like to reflect upon the year's past events and set goals for ...
How Good a Trainer Are You?
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 01Sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at our role in the training process. It is important to remember that when you are training your ...
Rally – A Great Way to Start with Your Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Sep 01Training Your Performance Dog Agility, Obedience, Tracking Rally has become a very popular dog sport. AKC Rally involves working with your dog and ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jul 01Enjoy the Dog You Have Performance sports require a lot of dedication and patience. Dogs, just like people, learn at different speeds, and one ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - May 01Obedience – What You Really Need is a Partner Basic obedience exercises are not hard to teach to your dog. The trick is having a dog who is a ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Feb 01Agility for All Agility, if introduced and taught correctly, can be a wonderful experience for almost any dog. Agility can help build confidence ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Dec 01Agility, Obedience, Tracking When will I be ready to enter a competitive event? This is a common question asked by most people who are new to ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Oct 01Agility – Building a Relationship Agility can build a dog's confidence. Agility can help a dog learn to focus on a task. Most of all, agility can ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Aug 01Most people think of tracking with their dogs as being out in a field or fields and woods. There are two tracking events that use fields and ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - May 31Successful Training Requires Attitude and Focus In order to be successful in competition, your dog needs to have attitude and focus as well as a ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Apr 01New Agility Trials Coming to Maine 2019 will be an exciting year for agility fans in Maine. Mid Coast Kennel Club of Maine will be hosting 2 three ...
