Owner: The Days of Johann - an agility dog! URL:http://blog.johannthedog.com/ Join Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:57:49 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Hi, I'm Johann! I'm a pretty busy pup. Got my own website - JohannTheDog.com and Dog Blog, and I do agility, herding, and help raise money for dog shelters and rescues. Site statistics:Click here
Great agility practice! 2008-03-05 19:40:00 We finally got to go to agility practice today. Mum and a couple of her friends rented the Pawsitive Partners Dog Training Center for an hour so we could all get in some action. Dog, did we have fun!Gracie got in three runs and I got in two. Mum's goal for me was to work on my confidence (getting it back) and for Gracie to work on focusing on Mum during her runs instead of running off. We accomplished both our goals today!After my injury I've lacked a lot of confidence on the course (showed a lot at the Silvia Trkman seminar a couple of weeks ago). But I'm feeling a lot better and it showed today. I'm still not running full out, but I'm closer and on this flooring I was unsure about my footing in the weaves, but Mum was real happy with my enthusiasm and confidence; and she didn't think for Read more:Great
Give some love to your pet sitter! 2008-03-04 13:01:00 This week is the week to give some extra special love to your pet sitter. Why? Its National Pet Sitters Week - an entire week devoted to those wonderful and special people who take care of us when our two-leggers have to go out of town on business, are working late at the office, or are traveling somewhere where they can't take us.Pet sitters work hard, especially during holiday and vacation time. Take the time to thank your sitter this week - they will love you or it!Looking for ways to thank your sitter? Try these cool ecards, they will be glad you did!And if you are looking for a pet sitter, here's a great site that lists all kinds of resources all over the country!Need some help in getting ready for your pet sitter, check this out! And having this great checklist when looking to hire a
Cool mailboxes! 2008-03-04 12:42:00 Oh, Mum's been online shopping again and found some really cute mailboxes
! She really liked this one and thought it looked a little like a bird feeder.This one would fit right in with our yard. Mum loves bird feeders - and of course I like to herd the birds that frequent the bird feeders.They have all kinds of mailboxes from retro, to hand painted, locked, curbside, wall mounted, and loads more. There are mailboxes for every taste!
Wallace's trip to Cynosport! 2008-03-04 12:28:00 I have always been a huge fan of Wallace
the Pit Bull. Not only is he an amazing athlete and the 2007 Purina Incredible Dog Challenge Freestyle Flying Disc National Champion, but he is an incredible ambassador for the breed!We came across a couple of videos of his trip to the 2007 Cynosport World Games last October - so far the vid diary has Wallace arriving in Phoenix - I believe there's more to come! Enjoy for now...
Creating Buzz? 2008-03-04 11:00:00 We found a new buzz generator the other day - a website to help you get the word out on your blog. Buzzfuse.com helps you spread the word about your content, whether it be a blog post, photo, video or more by broadening your reach, creating an interaction with an specific audience (like dogs!), and reporting mechanisms to help you understand your reach.The sign up was fairly easy, although it took a while to receive the email confirmation. Once signed I updated my profile, then submitted a post from my main blog that I thought would be interesting to readers. I edited the post, inserting the code and widget (that shows up in the post)- which is how the site finds my submission. I used the free submission service, but there is a paid service with enhanced features.Could be another interest Read more:Creating
Opposable thumbs? Wouldn't that be great! 2008-03-03 14:37:00 Today is a really big day - it's What if Dogs and Cats had Opposable Thumbs Day! Yeah, that's right!Check out this cool cartoon and send it as an ecard to all your cat and dog loving friends wishing them a happy What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day!So in honor of this wonderful holiday, I am listing (not in any particular order) what I would do if I had opposable thumbs
. Ready, set, go!I'd do my own typing and have my own computer, thank you very much - Mum is slow, and sometimes doesn't interpret well what I tell her. I want my own voice!With computer access more readily available, I'd place an order with Clean Run right away, and get all the treats, toys, and agility gear I've always wanted.With thumbs I could easily open the pantry and get my own food, anytime I wanted - Graci
What a fabulous weekend! 2008-03-03 07:19:00 Wow, we had a great weekend! The weather was pawsome, finally! And we got to get outside, enjoy nature, visit some old friends and generally be dogs. Got to tell ya, I was so glad the weather finally broke from the cold, snowy guck we've been having.First we went for some long, long walks. Mum worked with Gracie on a long line to help with her recall. The benefits of a long line are that Gracie doesn't really know she's on lead since the line is so light weight, and it's a great opportunity for Mum to work with her.Mum did some recalls with Gracie, and she did great - but then she took off like she was a free bird. The line wrapped around Mum's ankle and snapped really tight - big ouch for Mum and almost pulled her right into the mud - I thought it was funny and even Mum laughed!!!! Gracie
A sad day in Indianapolis... 2008-03-03 07:00:00 Although I have strong opinions, I don't usually post about humane society politics and the issues facing shelters and rescues. There are just so many opinions, so many viewpoints, so much emotion, that I don't really know where to begin to talk about such a large and important problem.But this news hit way close to home. This weekend, I learned that the Humane Society of Indianapolis
(my hometown) notified the public that it will stop accepting stray animals and begin requiring pet owners to go through "surrender counseling" before the society will take their pets. Why? Here is the news from the Indianapolis Star...The Humane Society of Indianapolis says it will stop accepting stray animals and begin requiring frustrated pet owners to go through "surrender counseling" before it takes thei
Who is my Mum? 2008-02-28 08:00:00 Over the past year or so since we've been blogging on Blogger, many folks have asked to see a pic of my Mum. Who is your Mum, what does she look like, who types for you - inquiring minds want to know?Well, she's pretty shy in reality - although most people think she's incredibly outgoing. But she hides her shyness really well - learned early in her marketing career that being shy wouldn't get her anywhere.I'm crazy about my Mum, have been from day one. We are together every day, every hour, every minute - accept when she has to go shopping or to meetings. We're soul mates, fur sure!So without further ado, this is the best pic of me, my Mum and my sis Gracie. A friend of ours took this pic at a Disc Dog event a year or so ago....Gracie and I are looking a bit serious, 'cause we were bored a
Speaking of agility! 2008-02-28 07:05:00 If you haven't visited our Squidoo Lens on Dog Agility lately we've been adding some new links, new books and DVD's, vids and more. We think you'll enjoy some of the new additions.One of the new DVD's we've added is a new release from Clean Run:How to Win at Gamblers and Snooker DVDALL NEW! Do you want to know how to play Gamblers and Snooker? Or maybe you are looking for ways to improve your distance work and obstacle discrimination skills for the standard classes? Learn from 13-time national champion Terry Smorch.If you'd like to link to our Squidoo Lens on Dog Agility on your blog, we would, of course, love it! Here's a handy chicklet, or just blogroll us!To keep everything organized, dvd's, cd's, old vcr agility tapes, and your tv and audio equipment - you may want to look into some co Read more:Speaking
Agility course maps! 2008-02-26 17:32:00 We were over at Jake's blog today and he had a link to a great site we wanted to share! It's Kvarkin Kennel, Mia Laamanen's site. From Finland, she has been involved in agility since 1991 and responsible for organizing agility competitions since 1994. She became an agility judge in 1997 and has judged in 16 different countries and also judged the Agility World Championships 2006 in Basel, Switzerland.Her site has loads of agility course
s from all over the world - England, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Norway, Slovenia, and lots more. Worth checking out!
Timing! 2008-02-26 17:30:00 Mum has decided to give me a couple of more weeks of rest on the muscle pull before going back to full practice mode. I'm still not up to par. I'm going to need some time to build myself back up - endurance and confidence. She's putting together a plan.But she has already decided that when I get back into full training mode, she's going to start timing some of my obstacles and sequences to try some of the tips that Silvia gave us at the seminar and to see what gives me more speed.Guess she'll have to invest in a stop watch or one a cool chronograph Seiko Watch to time me.
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More from the Silvia Trkman seminar! 2008-02-26 06:32:00 Mum and I were going through our notes from the Silvia Trkman seminar last night and wanted to post a few more things Silvia shared that we thought would be interesting to those agility dog/handler teams out there.Remember that these are my and my Mum's interpretations, K? And there really isn't anything new here that you won't find on Silvia's great website! It's a mish/mash of items, but here we go...One of the most important things a handler can do on a course is to let the dog know exactly where to go next, and let them know as early as absolutely possible. Example: once the dog is committed to an obstacle, signal the next right away. Blind crosses are becoming more and more popular in Europe, especially Germany.She says she is kind of unpopular in some of her handling - especially bec
Personalized address labels! 2008-02-26 05:29:00 Since Mum is in marketing and she promotes me and my website a lot, she's always looking for ways to 'get the word' out. One of the ways is through personalized items like cheap address labels. She can customize them, put my pic on them, and send them out with our regular mail.One day we had some personalized info on a trial entry envelope and the trial secretary saw it, they checked out our website and ended up buying one of our cool agility shirts. When we got to the trial they were wearing the shirt and we thought it was so much fun! All of us had a great time talking about the shirt, how they decided which one to buy, how fast the service was, what they thought of the quality - it was a great time to meet and talk with one of our customers in person - which we don't get to do very ofte Read more:Personalized
Silvia Trkman seminar recap! 2008-02-24 11:28:00 We're back from the Silvia Trkman seminar, and we had a blast! Our drive there on Thursday was uneventful, but our drive home was (as Mum calls it) terrifying! Cincinnati had a huge ice storm on the Thursday that we were there. It took us 45 minutes to get the two miles to our hotel from the training center that night.The next morning we woke up at 3:00 AM to folks ice scraping their cars in the lot of the hotel. Then again at 3:30 AM, 4:00 AM, 4:30 AM and 5:00 AM - that's when we decided we probably wouldn't get much more sleep and got up for breakfast. Maybe next time we'll take some camping gear and just stay in the car! Then during the day on Friday there was another ice storm, then it turned to rain. Our drive home for the first 30 minutes was fine, but as we headed north it got snowy
Lunar eclipse! 2008-02-24 05:38:00 The other night, Wednesday, Mum and I took in a bit of the lunar eclipse
. It was pretty cool. A really clear night and we could see it from our living room window. Nice since it was about 10 degrees outside. Mum took a quick pic from our little digital camera - here's what we saw ...After a little while it turned red kind of like this...this isn't Mum's pic, but you get the idea...Pretty cool! Next total Lunar
Eclipse? December 21, 2010, be sure and mark your calendars! Anyone else out howling at the Moon on Wednesday/Thursday?
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It's International Dog Biscuit Day! 2008-02-23 17:24:00 Today is a day to celebrate! It's International
Dog Biscuit
Day!To honor my friend the biscuit, we've put together some interesting stuff, here goes:Here's a great site with tons of dog biscuit recipes!Mum just taught me to catch treats in mid air, but here are a couple of pups who have it down to a science. Check out this vid - synchronized dog biscuit catching and eating - more, more!Need a dog biscuit, paw print, fire hydrant or dog house cookie cutter? A bone muffin pan, or a Buddy Biscuit baking kit?Watch this pup catch a biscuit from his nose in slow-mo!Got a biscuit, teach a dog a trick!Read about the history of dog biscuits!If you're not home and you see from your webcam that your pup is begging for a treat, here's a solution!What's my favorite biscuit besides the ones my Mum makes
Around the dog blog-o-sphere! 2008-02-23 15:26:00 While we were gone the past couple of days there was a lot going on in the dog blog-o-sphere. We did some catching up and wanted to share some of these posts we found. Interesting stuff!Taj MuttHall has a great vid of an (In)competent Border Collie - too fun!If you have trouble getting your pup to 'like' nail trimming - the Training Journal for Devon and Jamie discovered a really great idea, check it out!More from Taj MuttHall, info and a link to an article in National Geographic this month - Inside Animal Minds; they are smarter than you think!AgilityJedi, one of our new blogging friends, posted a great article - What is a reactive dog? - interesting, and thought provoking.Did you ever wonder how??? Who to brush your pups teeth, trim their nails, teach them a trick? Here's an interesting
And, we're off! 2008-02-20 11:55:00 Checking my to do list...my bags are packed, so are Gracie's, and we are off for a couple of days! We won't be blogging, or checking email - it's just me and Mum and agility.Mum and I are going to the Silvia Trkman seminar near Cincinnati; leaving tomorrow morning. We are doggone excited that we get to participate in this opportunity with Silvia. And we're looking forward to meeting Silvia's pup, La! (Learn more about La here, then click on About Us and La's pic!My nails are trimmed, the fur cut from between my pads, teeth brushed (although we do that everyday), new treats are packed that Mum ordered from CleanRun, I'm brushed and looking good. Weather.com says the drive will be uneventful, although not so good for our drive home on Friday night. Hopefully that will change, Mum hates drivi
Game time! 2008-02-20 06:15:00 Since Mum and I are going to be gone for a couple of days and won't be blogging (no Internet access), we thought we would give you some fun while we're gone! For you sheep herders out there - click here for a fun game!
Wednesday is Love Your Pet Day! 2008-02-19 17:25:00 It's Love Your Pet Day this coming Wednesday
! Everyday is love your pet day at our house, and I'm sure it is at yours, as well.So, today, in honor of Love Your Pet Day, we thought we'd share an amazing flickr set that we found by Lori Tingey. She's a photographer with DC Studios in Las Vegas. And she loves animals. This is her 500 Interesting Set. Also check out her Crazy Cats set, Farm Dogs set, Chickens Gone Wild set, and her Goat Gazing set.And, check out this site if you'd like to send an ecard to your friend .
Cat tells about her seminar experience with Silvia Trkman! 2008-02-18 19:58:00 Cat stopped by today to let us know they attended Silvia Trkman's seminar in Keene, New Hampshire, with her pup, Tessie, over the weekend. She said she had a great time, learned a lot, and that we will really enjoy it.Cat posted a recap, highlighting all the great tips and tricks she learned at the seminar and will soon have a video up from the event. Good stuff worthy of checking out.
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FCI Agility World Championship comparison clips! 2008-02-18 09:30:00 We were checking out the FCI Agility World
Championship 2007 vids on Guy Blancke's site at Smooth Moves Agility the other day. Some interesting comparison
vids, including: Border Collie versus Papillon - (Exerpted from Best of 2007 DVD ) Fastest @ 1 is fastest a few L8ER? Darn Shute Exit (with some tips) Team Agility Small - (Exerpted from Best of 2007 DVD ) Individual Jumping Large - (Exerpted from Best of 2007 DVD ) 30 second Course Building Read more:World Championship
New camcorder! 2008-02-18 05:23:00 Here it is...the new camcorder. We are so excited!We've been using an Olympus Camedia digital camera (bought in 2004) for our videos-horrible quality since it's really a digital camera. But, now we can have such improved quality of our vids - so much so that maybe Mum can actually see how I'm doing out on the course!We researched a lot before buying this one. It's a Sony DCR-SR62, has a 30G HD, 25x zoom, touchscreen, blah, blah, blah. We like the hard drive capabilities. It's very easy to use, plops right on the tripod, downloads right into our Adobe Premiere Elements software for editing (which also uploads straight to YouTube, BTW) with a USB, or we can burn right to a DVD, and we didn't have to buy anything in addition - no cables, no nothing. We bought it through Amazon, since Mum had
Washable rugs! 2008-02-18 05:15:00 Oh my gosh, I couldn't resist showing you these new Dog Friends Washable Rugs we found today from Orvis.com, one of our favorite stores for dog products. They are just too cute, Mum wants one, or two, or...Their website says:Terrific, hardworking mats with appealing canine motifs, these easy-care area rugs add charm to the porch, entryway, mud room, kitchen, or bath––anywhere you want a soft, absorbent cushion underfoot that stands up to active traffic and laundering without fraying or fading. Choose four friends, Ralphie and Lulu, doggie treats. 22" x 34". Washable.
Hurray for Firefighter Odom! 2008-03-11 15:08:00 According to an article by Stacy Temple in today's News Star in Northeast Louisiana, Firefighter
Odom saved a pups life with CPR!It's a dog's life: Firefighter's CPR saves pupA Ouachita Parish firefighter went above and beyond the call of duty on Friday, performing CPR on a dog and ultimately saving its life.Ouachita Parish firefighters responded to a mobile home fire at 12:16 p.m. at 523 Bawcom St. in West Monroe. When firefighters arrived at the mobile home, they saw smoke coming from the house. A resident of the house then approached firefighter Stephen "Odie" Odom and told him two dogs were trapped inside the burning house.Odom put on his air pack, and the family pointed to the room where the two small dogs were kept.After searching through a smoke-filled bedroom adjacent to where the
Get on the Fun Dog Tricks train! 2008-03-09 08:06:00 I thought it was about time for another fun link project! And we'd love for lots of dog bloggers to participate. It's fun!I absolutely love learning new tricks. And there are so many tricks us pups can do, all we need is to learn them. I've learned a lot of tricks, but I know there are many more I can have fun doing. And I know all of us pups would love a cool list of fun tricks we can learn and do with our humans. So, I put together this Fun Dog Tricks Train, for us to all have a great list of tricks!If you participated in my other Link Projects, you know what to do! If not, read on.-------Copy and paste starting with this line and everything below----------There are all kinds of fun tricks for us dogs, right? Well, let's make a list! And share it with the dog world!Here's how it works:1.
Cool pet tag! 2008-03-09 07:17:00 Look what we came across today - a must for the computer savvy dog! It's a USB tag that stores complete care information on us pups for friends, vets, kennels, pet sitters and anyone who may need the info! With Top Tag you can easily write, organize, store and retrieve ALL of your pet’s important care information.And it only takes seconds to access Top Tag information on your Windows® desktop or laptop computer. Check out how it works!
New selling and buying site! 2008-03-09 06:34:00 We came across a new shopping/selling
site today...once they get going it should be very interesting. It's called SilkFair. The name originates from the trade routes for commerce called 'Silk Routes' established by ancient civilization trade routes from the East to the West.They are aiming to be the premier e-commerce site for users to buy and sell their goods online. What makes them different? Unlike other sites, there is no fee for selling or setting up a store, you receive a unique url with each store, they integrate Google checkout and Paypal, you can import and export listings, product attributes are customizable and you can showcase your products with video.There is only a 3% final sales fee when one of your items sells. If your item doesn't sell you have no fee, so it's a win-win si
Car safety reminder! 2008-03-08 15:04:00 You all know I'm a huge proponent of car safety for us pups...it sooooo important!We found this vid on YouTube today and wanted to share it. It's put together by the folks at WagN4U. They say...Watch the video,Find the 5 driving safety mistakes made by the pet owner &Enter the Wag'N contest to get 5% off their 2-day pet safety training session.Send your answers to: contest@wagn4u.com, along with your name and contact info. (Must be 18 years or older to apply, one per household)Although the video may be cute - car safety for pets is serious business! If you get the chance, check out my Car Safety Squidoo Lens - it's packed full of information, links and products to keep your pets safe as your own the road. And if you're looking for additional auto items try these truck accessories - lig
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