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Brush up your Foundation Exercises with OneMind Dogs Online Community
With all the extra time at home right now, what a better opportunity to get back to basics and make sure your dog has all the essential skills for running agility courses. It’s a perfect time to troubleshoot and fix minor issues that your usual busy schedule doesn’t...
Lynn Madden’s OneMind Dogs Journey
Lynn Madden from Parkes, Australia took her first agility class about six years ago with her dog Cooper and immediately loved it. About six months later, after taking some more classes, Lynn thought it would be great to compete too. Living in a small town, four...
Understanding your dog’s point of view makes you the best dog owner
You may have heard people talking about understanding the dog’s point of view. What does it actually mean and how can it revolutionize your thoughts about training your next puppy? Let us tell you an example of one puppy’s point of view. Let’s imagine that an...
Discrimination Handling Challenge
OneMind Dogs Coach Niki Drage recently challenged you to test your dog’s ability to discriminate between two different obstacles using a verbal. In the next challenge Niki will have you use your body language and handle around some “trapstacles” on a small set up of...
Stuck at home — how to keep your dog happy & active?
If there was anyone happy about the current period of social distancing it would probably be our pups. Now their humans have even more time at home with them! Still, perhaps even more than us humans, dogs are very schedule-oriented and love their routine. When our...
Backyard Training Challenge – Contact vs Tunnel
Now that many of you are spending more time at home with your dogs, we wanted to give you some ideas for fun home training tips and challenges to try! In this first challenge OneMind Dogs Coach Niki Drage is showing you a little Contacts vs Tunnel challenge....
Get Ready for a Cuteness Overload – National Puppy Day is Coming!
There can never be too much puppiness in our lives, but right now with all the gloomy news around the world, it’s needed more than ever. And what could be a better theme for a holiday than puppies anyway, we can’t think of any! 😍 So get ready for a cuteness...
Junior Handler Ann And Deaf Dog Stella Qualify For Crufts!
Nine year old junior handler Ann Crawford and her mum Fiona love to play agility with their American Cocker Spaniel, Stella. Young Ann took over Stella’s training in March 2019 with the help of her instructor, Irene Hull from K9ARC. Stella is deaf, so Irene knew that...
Happy “Train Your Dog Month”!
Did you know that January is the official “Train Your Dog Month”? This was initially started by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers back in 2010, hoping to raise awareness and promote the importance of proper training and healthy socialization to a dog’s...
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