Tim Cutterson, Dog Training

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Owner/trainer at My Clever Canine Dog Training

Professional dog trainer, specializing in high drive, precision training.
3-time National champion and 6th in world in Schutzhund/IGP

05/25/2025

Our obedience from yesterday.

Unfortunately, 2 huge mistakes on stand in motion and a-frame caused us to get 83 points. All other exercises were rated excellent.

05/25/2025

Our protection routine from yesterday - 92 points

Protection has been a long, arduous journey with this boy, but I'm happy we were finally able to get through it on the big stage.

Thanks to the helpers Derrick Lacrose and Marcus Hampton 💪💪💪

Our flight schedule for AWDFFriday Protection 8:40amSaturday Obedience 1:00pmSunday Tracking 9:00am
05/22/2025

Our flight schedule for AWDF

Friday Protection 8:40am
Saturday Obedience 1:00pm
Sunday Tracking 9:00am

Me and Croc have made it safely to our destination and are doing our best to get ready for next weekend 💪💪💪
05/17/2025

Me and Croc have made it safely to our destination and are doing our best to get ready for next weekend 💪💪💪

Well, our travel for AWDF is not going so well. We were supposed to fly out yesterday, but our flight got canceled after...
05/15/2025

Well, our travel for AWDF is not going so well. We were supposed to fly out yesterday, but our flight got canceled after we boarded the plane and everything. Rebooked another flight that was supposed to leave this morning, but is now delayed another 5 hours. I feel most bad for Croc, who has now had to sit in his crate for many hours in an airport/airplane over the last couple of days 😫

Hopefully we'll actually get to the east coast eventually. It's definitely thrown off our trial prep plans as I was hoping to get some training in starting yesterday 😭

Congrats to our club member Dr. John for his win at Regionals 💪💪💪I have to brag for him cuz he won't brag about it himse...
09/24/2024

Congrats to our club member Dr. John for his win at Regionals 💪💪💪

I have to brag for him cuz he won't brag about it himself, but this is his 3rd win in a row and his 5th Regional win overall ('19, '21, '22, '23, & '24) 🤯🤯🤯

To be consistent in this sport is SO HARD! Especially when you're traveling/trialing at different venues, with different helpers, different tracking, etc.

It shows how much time, effort, and thought John puts in with his dog. Congrats my friend 👏👏

While Amy has abandoned me at home for the next 3 weeks being team captain at the FCI, these will be 2 of my friends:Cop...
09/17/2024

While Amy has abandoned me at home for the next 3 weeks being team captain at the FCI, these will be 2 of my friends:

Copper, the aggressive resource guarding Bloodhound (he wants to bite my face 😈)

And Gigi the puggle

09/09/2024

Croc-a-doodle's IGP2 protection from this weekend. 98 points. He was a little loosey-goosey at points in the obedience (wide blind, back transport), but looked very strong overall 💪💪💪

Judge Joel Monroe

09/08/2024

Croc and I passed our IGP2 obedience today with score of 94. I was very happy with the Croc-a-doodle 🐊❤️

-6 points for mistake on jump

Judge Joel Monroe

08/27/2024

💡💡 If you want your dog to focus on your face, whether it be for heeling, fronts, or some other behavior, it's incredibly important that you're not moving your reward hand BEFORE you mark.

♦️Many handlers KNOW this, but so few actually do it. It's such a common tendency that we as humans have. Maybe it's because movement or using our body comes more naturally than making a noise with our mouth.

♦️But, if you're moving your hand, throwing the ball, or making any type of movement AT THE SAME TIME that you mark, and that is how you typically reward, your dog WILL start looking for that movement INSTEAD of watching your face. Movement is a more dominant stimulus than sound for most dogs, especially when that movement involves a high value reward!

♦️Doing this may ALSO create more CONNECTION with you and your dog, which in turn may free them up even more and add more emotion to your heeling! Oftentimes, when a dog is just "heeling for the ball" and staring up at the armpit, they can lack expression, and you also lose the ability to communicate with your dog via facial expression, talking, etc.

♦️And lastly, remember, there's not one size fits all approach to dog training! This advice may not be helpful for you and your dog's issues. If your dog shows TOO MUCH emotion (leaking, hectic, etc.), then maybe you don't need to do this 😉

08/11/2024

IGP 2 in 5 weeks! 😬

Just trying to keep this boy healthy so I can get to the competition. Nothing crazy I feel like I have to work on or fix. Just the usual stuff. The IGP 2 is by far the most annoying title to do. Several things you'll never have to do again, but that you need to teach for this level (walking stand, back transport to side transport).

Hopefully we can get through it and move on!

07/09/2024

Just a long ass video of our OB session from this morning.

Courtesy of Mr Pivo 📹

Once a behavior is established, it's important to mix in elements of "trial picture" to all your exercises (something I'm not always good at).

For example: Waiting 3 seconds before you praise or reward after a finish. I tend to reward very quickly because I wanted animation, so this is something I have to remind myself to do every once in a while 😉

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