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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.
Recent Column Posts (1 - 13) Additional Posts (14 - 77)
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 - Mar 04Thoughts are Turning to Tracking While we still may have snow on the ground, indications of spring are here, and with these, come thoughts of once ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Dec 28Whether it be obedience, rally, agility, tracking, or any other performance sport, is the answer to just keep entering trials if you keep failing? ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 01Agility, Obedience, Tracking AKC has a new titling program: The AKC Trick Dog. It is designed so dogs and their owners can have fun learning ...
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 ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Feb 01Considerations Regarding Puppy Classes First of all, I do believe socialization is very important and puppy classes can fulfill many needs of dogs ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 30Agility – Are Manners and Obedience Necessary? YES, YES, YES! I can't tell you how many times we receive a call from a frustrated pet owner who ...
