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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 - Jan 01Motivation in Training According to the dictionary, motivation is defined as an inducement or incentive to act or perform a behavior. When we ask ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Dec 01How Good a Trainer Are You? Sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at our role in the training process. It is important to remember ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Oct 01Tracking – Building Confidence and Desire Successful tracking comes from the dog wanting to follow the scent you have indicated to them. In this ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Aug 01Agility – 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 ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jun 01Obedience and Rally – What's the Difference? Rally trials demonstrate that the dog has been trained to behave in the home, in public places, and ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Apr 01New Agility Course Test – Jumpers 1 and 2 This year, in addition to the ACT 1 Standard and ACT 2 Standard levels, AKC has added 2 additional ...
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, ...
Pets & Automobiles – Part 1
By Don Hanson, ACCBC, ... - Jan 01Cars, trucks, mini-vans, basically any automobile are often as much a part of our pets' lives as they are ours. It's how we brought them home the ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Nov 01Obedience: The Foundation of All We Do with Our Dogs AKC defines its obedience program as trials set up to demonstrate the dog's ability to follow ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Sep 01Reactive or Aggressive - What's in a Name? With more dogs being adopted and more dog events being offered, we need to look at our responsibility ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - Jul 01Foundation Training – The Secret to Success Is your dog a pleasure to live with? Can you go anywhere with your dog without a problem? Can you ...
Training Your Performance Dog
By Carolyn Fuhrer - May 01AKC TEMPERAMENT TEST The temperament of any dog is an important characteristic. Temperament is a dog's natural predisposition to react a certain ...
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 ...
