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12/11/2025

The angel on our Christmas tree

👻 Happy Halloween 🎃
10/31/2025

👻 Happy Halloween 🎃

10/30/2025

So what is back chaining? It’s a method to teach a more complex behavior, by teaching the last step first and working your way back to the start. This is done over many training sessions or sometimes a single training session, timelines are FLEXIBLE.

1. Break it down. Break down the behavior you want in steps for yourself first.
2. Start with the very last step. Master this!
3. Then start working your way backwards, step by step, to the start of the sequence.
4. Last, start increasing difficulty!

Agility is a new sport for us, but back chaining is an old friend! It’s one of my go to ways of teaching more complex behaviors. What behaviors have you knowingly or unknowingly back chained?

Thanks for the clear instruction, .sa06 for the video, and to for loving and training Wednesday this year!

🍁🍂🍁Jessie and Mavis are loving the fall foliage!! 🍁🍂🍁
10/28/2025

🍁🍂🍁Jessie and Mavis are loving the fall foliage!! 🍁🍂🍁

10/22/2025

Comin’ in hot 🔥

10/14/2025

Gomez got his first adventure to the backyard! The foundation for a lovely recall has been laid!

Happy 6th birthday to our amazing Mavis girl! Thankful for you each and every day. 🦇❤️
10/10/2025

Happy 6th birthday to our amazing Mavis girl! Thankful for you each and every day. 🦇❤️

First big boy vet check! Physical exam was normal, no murmur, we ran a f***l PCR, no parasites, got microchipped and he ...
10/09/2025

First big boy vet check! Physical exam was normal, no murmur, we ran a f***l PCR, no parasites, got microchipped and he will get his second vaccine on the 23rd. I will also run bloodwork then just as a precaution. Then he will be ready to go to his forever home!

Today is never just like any other day. We all remember where we were the moment we learned of the terrorist attack. We ...
09/12/2025

Today is never just like any other day. We all remember where we were the moment we learned of the terrorist attack. We all watched as the heroes showed up. We watched the towers fall. And so, so many tiny details none of us will forget. So many stories we learned later. My friends worked day in and day out with their USAR canines hoping for anything. Today is the reason why I’m in the dog world at all. It’s why I volunteered to give back. So today meant a lot to me to send Kit to my fellow USAR canine handler and friend in Arizona to train her up to be a service dog. I’m so thankful to have learned from Julie’s experiences. I’m thankful to have heard firsthand experiences of this day, so that I will never forget.

Kit was picked up by a retired Marine, and a retired canine police officer and got a first class ride to her new adventure. Today is hard. This week as a whole, even harder. But this? It reminds me that good people exist, and we have to keep doing good things.

“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
-Mr. Rogers

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