A tax break for Fido!

hmmmmmmm.....

Attention Dog Trainers, Parents, Everybody!

FUN is the way to change behavior!

(Thanks Taj Mutt Hall for the link!)

I don't plan on competing in this version of agility...

But my horse-crazy daughter would probably love to try this with her border collie!

This makes me go hmmmmmmmmmmm...

Time Magazine article on Dogs' Minds

This is interesting!

Silas House writes about dogs...

The great writer, Silas House, on dogs.

Book Review

My review of Lorrie Moore's new novel is in the September issue of Bookslut.  Enjoy!

Godspeed Focus

A shock to the agility world yesterday.  

Just days before his 5th birthday, current AKC national champion, Focus, died suddenly during a practice.  His owner, handler and partner, Geri Hernandez, was set to take him to his second turn at World Team competition in a few days.

I'm working on a novel set in our world of dog agility.  How do I convey in words what our agility dogs mean to us?  They change our lives.  We are not the same people we'd be without them and without the agility community.  

Geri is undoubtedly suffering a loss of focus today, in her real loss of Focus.  I pray Geri finds again the True North that her time with Focus afforded her and I dearly hope she always remembers the lessons Focus taught her.  I hope she knows their bond was also a lesson for all of us in agility.

Here are a couple lovely  tributes for a dog who will not be forgotten.

(Don't miss this youtube video.)

Godspeed Focus.