When in state of heightened arousal, the instinct will override learned behavior. No matter how well a dog is trained to do something in a class situation, when stressed or highly excited, the hard drive (instinct) will always win out …

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We have a had a very busy year already for BaeBea’s Dog Training students. Tucker and Jedi each earned a leg for their Rally Advanced Excellent (RAE) titles at the Mt Hood Doberman Pinscher Club specialty during the Rose City …

BaeBea’s Dog Training Students Have Been Busy… Read more »

We had a successful weekend at Elma this weekend.  One of the things I love about trialing with my students is that I can really see what we need to work on in class. Here are some videos from this …

BaeBea’s Students Start the New Year Competing Read more »

Today was another successful day for Paula Ratoza and her students at the Mt. Hood Doberman Pinscher Club agility trials. After performing so well on Friday and Saturday, Mala was recognized as the top Hound and awarded a ribbon bigger …

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The second day of the Mt Hood Doberman Pinscher Club Fall 2016 Agility trial had great courses and was a lot of fun to run . Mala, the dachshund, was the superstar today – qualifying in all four classes, Time to Beat, …

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This was the first day of the Mt Hood Doberman Pinscher Club Fall 2016 Agility trial. Mala, the dachshund, was the superstar today – qualifying in all three classes, Time to Beat, Jumps With Weaves and Standard. She really put on …

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After attending the Ward Faulkner seminar at the Sherwood Dog Training Club last month I adopted his method of scent discrimination training and have been very happy with the results. Here is a little video of DashDash at class tonight …

Scent Discrimination Training Read more »

DashDash ran all four classes again today. We are still having a little issue with the weaves and will be working those harder, but I was very happy to see her get back up on the dog walk after falling …

Final Day of PAC trial Read more »