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 01Tracking – A Problem Solving Relationship Tracking is a sport in which almost all dogs can be successful. Your dog's nose is millions of times ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jan 04What Do You Really Want to Learn? Today there are so many wonderful choices of dog sports to explore with our dogs. Most people start out with ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 01Obedience Training – Shaping Choices I am so proud of my students. Several of them are now working with their second dog since they started ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Sep 01More Performance Opportunities There are not a lot of opportunities to work with your performance dog during these difficult times, but OTAC – On ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jul 01What is a Tracking Match? Maine's newest dog club, On Track Agility Club of Maine, will be offering a tracking match on Saturday, July 25 in ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - May 01Training Your Performance Dog Agility, Obedience, Tracking By Carolyn Fuhrer TRACKING –The Importance of Starting Out Correctly One of the ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Feb 01Choosing an Instructor Last month we talked about being sure of what you want to learn. Once you have decided that obedience, rally, agility, ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 30Thoughtful Training – When You Do It Right – It Works Your job as a trainer/teacher of your dog is to design a learning situation that will ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Oct 01It's All About Training How many times have you heard, or may have been told: • Your dog's not having enough fun • You need to motivate your dog ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Aug 01Good News for Performance Enthusiasts On Track Agility Club of Maine has just finished putting on a wonderful, well attended Agility match and a ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jun 02Exciting News for Performance Teams! Maine has a new dog club – On Track Agility Club of Maine. The club was formed to bring more quality and ...
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 ...