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Methodical Consistency is a term I have coined for the express purpose of explaining what happens when one applies all the practical rules of breeding while focusing on purposeful function. It defines a chosen path using proven methods to produce a consistent product. This is simplicity at its finest, but is this so simple? I pose this question because if one reads the material and processes it properly, it will seem much easier in theory than in actual practice. Why is this so? When you take science and mix it with luck and prayer, all you can hope for is magic. With methodical consistency we can isolate the variances and guide the results.
January 10th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! This week Will gives us 10 Questions in 60 Seconds. Ep. #39. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
January 9th, 2023 | Posted in Featured,Videos | Read More »
Good day, my fellow American dogs. This is the second in my series of seminars about how to train your humans. This session will cover such topics as discipline, leash training, getting your fair share of your human’s meals, dealing with cats and for the gun dogs, hounds, terriers and poodles among today’s attendees–hunting.
January 9th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Now a researcher at the University of Missouri (MU) College of Veterinary Medicine used the technique to treat osteosarcoma in dogs—the first time the procedure has been successful in any animal larger than a mouse.
January 8th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
1. Never quit learning. So you finished your first champion. Won your first NOHS BIS. Won your first group. Your first regular BIS. Your second. Your third. You’re at the top in your breed. Don’t think you can’t be better, do better. Don’t think you know too much to profit from a handling class, or from watching the groups, or asking a pro for advice. You will never know all there is to know. The only difference is how fast you learn as much as you can—and where you stop because you think you know everything.
January 7th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
The Greyhound ranked 132nd in 2021 AKC registration statistics and is on the AKC’s current low-entry breeds list. It is one of the oldest breeds, among the first recognized by AKC in 1885, and is the prototype sighthound. Many other breeds define themselves in terms of the Greyhound–how they are the same and how they are different.
January 6th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Seriously, have you ever wondered how judges learn about your breed? One of the main ways is by being mentored. According to the Oxford Online Dictionary, a mentor is an experienced and trusted adviser, and to mentor is to advise or train someone. Seems pretty straightforward, and yet it’s a process that is different in each mentoring session and can be anything from extremely helpful to a complete waste of time.
January 5th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
The Beatles told us 55 years ago that we could “get by with a little help” from our friends. But in any profession, that idea moves far beyond emotional support, and moves into the realm of mentoring.
January 4th, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! Will Alexander has an in-depth conversation with Lenny Brown. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
January 3rd, 2023 | Posted in Featured,Videos | Read More »
More than a millennium before Karen Pryor popularized clicker training, dog people understood the magnificent simplicity of this concept. It only takes one or two positive experiences for dogs to forge that neural pathway between a sound and a reward. You might say that the hunting horn was the big clunky prototype for this training methodology. Luckily, our sport had Freeman Lloyd to document the origin and evolution of this iconic symbol for the AKC Gazette in 1943. He wrote, “In actual hunting, only one man is entrusted with it, and he is the official huntsman. For carrying the horn signifies absolute power like the sceptre of a monarch or the baton of the conductor of an orchestra.”
January 3rd, 2023 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
