When I took my small dog Max to his first agility trial, we ran in 5 classes, qualified and took first place all five runs. I was sooooo proud of him!!!!!!! When I went to agility class that week I took all 5 blue rosettes to show my agility instructor. Now Christine is a world class agility competitor and I feel really lucky to have her close enough to benefit from her expertise, and Her reply to me was...

We have all done it, something we know so well all of a sudden is gone!!!! Where does it go? When will it come back? Names, pin numbers, phone numbers, addresses, honestly I have forgotten them all. Thank goodness it is usually very short term and eventually pops back into my brain.

Have you ever asked your dog to perform a task that you are sure they know and they look at you like they have absolutely no idea what you were asking. Well they probably don’t. I notice that my dogs always go through times when they are learning new behaviors that they seem to completely forget what we have been working so hard on. There is a shift from short term to long term memory during which they go blank.

Sometimes our dogs have habits that DRIVE US CRAZY. We complain, complain, complain about these horrible habits but usually give in and learn to live with them.

My biggest annoyance with my crew is whenever we would go somewhere they would start barking and run downstairs, jumping on the door to the garage and barking, barking, barking, well you get the idea……