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your dog, there's still an opportunity to learn. What you learn n a
personal level, I compete because I want to win. All those may well be
suitable for another dog, a different dog. people who have told me that
because I don't run BCs I don't take the sport seriously can take their
comments and deposit S o I'm off to book a private lesson with my
favourite them in the appropriate place! When I go to collect a rosette
instructor. She has won in agility at the highest levels; she's or trophy,
I do so safe in the knowledge that I've beaten at won with a BC and she's
won with a Toy Poodle. Not a least 90% of the entered dogs to the class
85% of which will Poodle-Collie cross, or a 3/4 Collie with a bit of
something be BCs. When I get home I'm surrounded by the dogs that I else
in it, but a Toy Poodle with a personality big enough to want to live my
life with. If my dog isn't fast enough to win, remember for a long time.
She understands what it takes to c'est la vie. He's still wonderful and
I'll still enjoy training and train a dog to the top levels she also
understands what it's competing with him; the world won't stop turning
because like to train a dog that isn't desperate to please and does have
he didn't win. If that describes you too, then you need to stop more in
his mind than watching his handler. She's never yet being angry at the
claims people make. After all, seminars have dismissed one of my dogs or
assumed that because they're to be sold and it's always a case of buyer
beware. You need not BCs I'm going to be happy with second best. She has
the to get a feel for your dog, his likes and dislikes. What makes best
eye of any trainer I've ever worked with, and she can be him the dog he
is? You need to understand your dog what relied on to give an honest
assessment and advice relating to do his instincts prompt him to do?
Instinct should never be the partnership she sees in front of her, not to
try to fit us into dismissed since it has a very powerful effect on our
training. a box that was never designed for us. Thanks Val! Once you've
done all that, ask questions! Use your judgment Jo Sermon to assess the
instructor. At a basic level, even if you do mess up and find yourself at
a seminar that doesn't suit you and Jo Sermon lives in Headley, Hampshire,
U.K. and has been involved in agility since 1988. She is a positive
trainer, looking for ways to reward dogs, keeping success levels high. Jo
views agility as a sport to be enjoyed by dogs and handlers at all levels
with the aim of training being to help handlers achieve as much as
possible with their dogs, whatever breed that may be. Jo is one of the few
handlers to compete at the Senior level of the sport in the U.K. with one
of the so-called other breeds. For more information, see
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