In light of the great write up by Iwona Golab, I am republishing Episode 8 on relationship building.  There is more and maybe I'll put another podcast together, but I think this is a good episode to revisit.

Episode 61: End Routines  ** Dogs thrive on routines and making an end routine noteworthy will help strengthen your dog's feelings toward the hard work and the reward they need and want for their hard work. Want more, reward more, strategically with connection and duration.  

Episode 53: Cues and Side Changes  ** Part 2 Section B, Going through the chapters of my foundation classes, Margaret talks about Cues and Side Changes. Workbook is not finished, but if you'd like to see my outline and Foundation through Level 1 (including Teeter and Weaves) you can download it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beginningdogagilityusa/files/files Hannah Branigan - mention about hand signal description at minute 9:40. https://soundcloud.com/hannah-branigan/187-training-faster-behaviors-without-frustration-part-2?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fhannah-branigan%252F187-training-faster-behaviors-without-frustration-part-2 Where to put your side change: https://youtu.be/j_gGS0_tTP0

Blind cross podcast: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pfqrh-142b25b

More on side changes: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-923vv-11e41bf

Episode 52: Recall to Heel  **Part 1 - Section A of Margaret's foundation exercises she works with her own dog and her students.  Part of Linda Mecklenburg's Jump Training - Recalls to Heel: 1. Recall to Collection 2. Recall to Extension 3. Recall to Backup

Episode 51: UKI West Coast Open 2024  **  Margaret and Emma discuss their adventure attending the UKI West Coast Open in Paso Robles, California UKI Agility: https://ukagilityinternational.com/

West Coast Open information:

https://ukagilityinternational.com/events/uki-west-coast-open/west-coast-open-2024-documents

Episode 50: Zanee Agility Camp 2024 **  Six instructors over 3 days at Zanee Agility Camp, located at Run Wild Dog Sports Center, hosted by Jordan Biggs and Hana Spitz Ashley Deacon Stefanie Rainer Taner Dogan Shauna Oliver Grace Heck Casey Keller

Episode 49: JOAWC - 2024 Junior Open Agility World Championships   ** Listen to Emma and Margaret talk about the Junior Team USA. Please share with any junior agility competitor families. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WcUJRIr3k 2024 JOAWC Website:  https://joawc2024agility.be/ AKC JOAWC Information: https://www.akc.org/sports/agility/events/junior-open-agility-world-championship/

Episode 48: Walking an Agility Course  ** 25 years of walking courses, the strategies I've learned, ways that I help decide on side changes, location and memorization tactics to help run my desired walk through plan.

Episode 47: Using Targets in Agility Training   ** Using target plates, or preplaced rewards, in agility can be very powerful. Learn about the different target structures that Margaret and Emma use to train their dogs. Two Target Jump Training: Short versions Part 1: https://youtu.be/qDHgYJN-aps

Part 2: https://youtu.be/0Yw-MIWTyWQ

Distance training using one target: https://youtube.com/shorts/9gh0NiBw_2E Focus forward teeter training: https://youtube.com/shorts/EFW2vRve3_M

Contact Sprints: https://youtube.com/shorts/cRrGUk5MmCo?si=CArchpBcAy4F7dLf Jump Bend Grid with toy target (can use food lid target): https://youtube.com/shorts/Kxl8FbeyP-A?feature=share Stick the landing - brining the target to my dog: https://youtube.com/shorts/rxW_Xrbcxzk Extension to collection training (aka, teeter training): https://youtube.com/shorts/m2UQWiBmUbg

Episode 46: Top 5 Training Skills for Dogs and Handlers  ** Margaret and Emma discuss their top 5 training skills for dogs and handlers, and how they help with agility.  If only able to train 5 things for agility, what would they be?? Two Target Game: https://youtu.be/qDHgYJN-aps Hand Position Matters: https://youtu.be/IZ6ViGgKBH0 Emma's Rear Cross Flip Game: https://youtu.be/EF0caU-YbHE

Episode 45: Introducing Teeter Training in New Locations Margaret discusses with Emma what she learned from Eli about training a teeter on her own, how to help your dog develop the skills to handle the teeter at speed and using this information to introduce new teeters, in new locations to your dog in preparation for the trial environment. An agility dog benefits greatly from two important teeter factors, lots of positive history on the teeter, and experience with multiple teeters in multiple locations. Eli Teeter Training in New Locations: https://youtu.be/w2ii8DknC18 Eli's bounce grid to teeter: https://youtu.be/XU6fv7a28gs

Episode 44: Eli's First Trial - What Really Happened Behind the Scenes  ** We did a thing, we trialed together. Listen to Margaret recount the day of Eli's first AKC agility trial to Emma. 

Episode 60: Putting It All Together  ** The final podcast in Margaret's Beginning Agility Foundation Workbook series. 

Episode 43: Agility is Confusing ** Join Margaret as she talks about all the different ways that agility can be confusing, but at the heart of it all, listen to your dog and keep their confidence up!

Episode 42: Let's Stress About Stress  ** Unqualified to really help you, listen to Margaret and Emma's strategies for dealing with stress in agility.

Episode 41: Contacts, I Mean Weave Poles  ** 12/7/2001 Margaret wrote the follow during a Susan Garrett seminar, "If you need to help your dog w/ contacts - your dog doesn't know contacts." Follow along as Margaret and Emma discuss this same principle with regards weave poles and suggestions on how to go about helping your dog know weave poles.

Episode 40: 2024 Goals in Agility ** Join Margaret as she talks you through building or not building agility goals for 2024. Tiny book, 79 pages. On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugass

Episode 39:Book Discussion -Developing Handling Skills by Linda Mecklenburg

** Listen in with Margaret and Emma as we discuss what Margaret thinks are the main threads throughout Linda Mecklenburg's book "Developing Handling Skills" Ebook: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/developing_handling_skills_e_book/index.cfm Portion of the in-depth Zigzag Exercise available in the April 2009 Clean Run magazine: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/clean_run_magazine_april_2009/index.cfm Linda's website Awesome Paws Agility Academy: https://awesomepawsagilityacademy.com

Episode 38: Dog Sports Derby ** Apologies right off the start line, I keep referencing the name of the sports arena as Derby Dog Sports, when in fact, it is called Dog Sports Derby. https://www.facebook.com/dogsportsderby   or https://dogsportsderby.com/ Lovely facility and incredible day of agility, dogs and handlers alike were on top form.

Episode 37: Reactivity - Eli Part 2  **Listen in as I explain how I have helped Eli to work through his reactivity triggers and where we are at. Pattern Games: Tracy Skelnar https://braincampflix.com/ http://www.controlunleashed.net/about.html

Episode 36: Online versus In Person Training ** Enjoy (or don't) our opinion on online versus in person training.

Episode 35: Winter Training **Margaret and Emma discuss training they do in the house during the winter months. Apologies, we do end up referring to visual drawings of some of our one jump work explanations. You can see the drawings via YouTube: 

Episode 34: Reactivity in Agility **Listen to Margaret and Emma talk about Eli's SEC on and off the agility course, training to help prevent, why we think it developed and more. Video of Eli going after Doberman - you can't see it, but you'll hear it. https://youtu.be/Lh3xhVfT5jo Tracy Sklenar and Power Patterns: https://braincampflix.com/

Episode 59: Podcast on Podcasts  **Join me as I list out my favorite podcasts. The Q Coach with Julie Bacon https://www.theqcoach.com/

The Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam https://hiddenbrain.org/

The Wrong End of the Tunnel with Chris Kerton https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093313054171

The Startline Podcast with  Cara Armour https://www.startlinepod.com/

The Kathy Keats Show with Kathy Keats https://thekathykeatsshow.com/

Drinking from the Toilet with Hannah Branigan https://hannahbranigan.dog/dog-training-podcast/

The After Class with Kayl McCann https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mccann-dogs-agility-after-class-podcast/id1558162979

The Agility Challenge with Daisy Peel https://podcast.theagilitychallenge.com/1/

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett https://dogsthat.com/podcasts/

FX Agility with Megan Foster https://www.fxagilityschool.com/podcasts/fostering-excellence-in-agility

Cog Dog Radio with Sarah Stremming https://www.facebook.com/thecognitivecanine/

Bad Dog Agility with Sarah Fernandezlopez, Esteban Fernandezlopez and Jennifer Crank https://baddogagility.com/category/podcast/

Episode 33: Ambition 

**Having ambition, when to pull back on it, when to push for it, all the while keeping your dog's confidence up. Cavaletti Poles Information by Kristin Wolter - https://activ8k9.com/workshop-and-seminar-menu/

Episode 32: AKC League Discussion with Penny Leigh- League Director **Contact information for AKC League:

Email: AgilityLeague@akc.org

AKC Agility League Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/akcagilityleague/

League on AKC Website: https://www.akc.org/akc-agility-league/

Episode 31: Agility Fun Runs, Play Days, Trial like Practice ** Margaret and Emma discuss how to use your very first Fun Run effectively to assess where your dog is at with their attention, impulse control and more. 

Episode 30: AKC Agility League **Listen to Margaret, Emma and special guest, Erin Lynch talk about AKC's Agility League.

Episode 29: Not Addressing the Training Gap ** Are you bypassing a training gap by going on when a mistake happens? Should you go on? Should you train the dog skill more? Is it a handler skill? When your dog makes a mistake on course, they are giving you information, what you do with it makes the difference between repeating it or not.

Episode 28: Fast and the Furriest Blind Cross ** Freeway driving and the blind cross, how are they similar? Find out as Margaret and Emma talk about cars and dog agility.

Episode 27: Around the Clock ** Training your agility dog all the way around the clock is a great way to train, with a few exceptions. Example of around the clock training: https://youtube.com/shorts/CIkbsbG3iyk

Another variation of around the clock training: https://youtu.be/cn1uzfx1IxQ

Episode 26: Do Nothing - Stay ** When it comes to dogs doing something they are masters, when it comes to doing nothing, they aren't.

Episode 25: 3 Ps of Confidence ** There are four things I learned as a kid and in this podcast, we discuss item #2, CONFIDENCE. Confidence in agility, comes down to the 3 Ps of Confidence. Intro changed because we lost the copyright to our original podcast intro.

Episode 24: Beginner Agility Questions ** Margaret and Emma answer beginning agility student's questions. Also, find out more about the height categories in various agility organizations. If your dog measures in at 14.25 inches, your different jump height options.  Lastly, Margaret and Emma ask each other questions.

New intro created by Margaret Hughes (copyright restrictions on prior intro prevents use on podcasts)

Episode 58.5: Verbal Cue Memorization  ** Apologies, this is a short add-on to Episode 58 about verbal cues.  I forgot to talk about how I remember to use them. 

Episode 23: Puppy Issue or Something That Will Get Worse ** When raising a puppy for agility, are some issues that come up a puppy thing or a preview to things to come? Jess Martins - https://www.facebook.com/groups/3558757674162928 Episode 17 - Dunning Kruger Effect

Episode 22: National Agility Championships 2023 - Good Luck Inspirational video: https://vimeo.com/156941077 Daisy Peel's Podcasts:

#7 Why Are You Afraid?  https://podcast.theagilitychallenge.com/7/

#8 - What to do when you’re nervous https://podcast.theagilitychallenge.com/8/

#9 - Other People’s Opinions https://podcast.theagilitychallenge.com/9/

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Episode 21: Pushing Yourself But Not Your Dog ** Today, Margaret and Emma disagree on what subject to talk about, so Emma is talking about Pushing Yourself and Margaret is talking about But Not Your Dog. Emma gives her opinion and insight into the benefit of pushing yourself to try AKC's Premier courses or equivalent.  Margaret discusses more foundation training and not pushing your dog beyond their skill level, even when if they can physically do something, their age may be the very reason you don't. Music by: www.bensound.com

Mentioned in the podcast, Movement Puzzles, Mari Valgma, The Moving Canine, https://www.facebook.com/mari.valgma/about

Episode 19: Foundations Aren't Sexy** There are many different foundation exercises that I think benefit dogs in agility. Join us as we talked about a few foundation exercises that maybe aren't agility foundation, but are foundations towards agility. Hand mechanics referenced in the show: https://youtu.be/IZ6ViGgKBH0

Emma's early stay work with Milly: https://youtu.be/0y77MQwDHaQ Minutes: 0:21 0:54 2:05

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Episode 18: Stitious, SuperStitious or SuperDuperStitious ** This podcast was supposed to be about commitment, however, while waiting for the loud garbage truck to pass by, Emma posed a question to the listeners and the topic immediately changed to Stitious, SuperStitious or SuperDuperStitious.  Referenced in the conversation this video: https://vimeo.com/156941077

Podcast music by: www.bensound.com

Episode 17: Memorization ** Margaret and Emma discuss memorization in agility, memorizing the course, the crosses and some of the difficulties that come up when learning to memorize a course. Also learning to deal with strategy and memorization in a walk through. Dunning Kruger Effect https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-effect

Episode 16: New to Trialing - Thoughts for New Handlers ** Having a puppy has once again highlighted what it is like to bring a new dog to a trial for the very first time. Thoughts from Emma and Margaret for those new to trialing. And a few tidbits for old timers too.

Episode 15: Verbal Cues in Agility ** Listen to our opinion on the use of verbal cues on the agility course. Are you thinking about adding verbal cues to your dog agility tool bag. Chances are, you already are.  

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Episode 14: Puppy Eli and Agility ** AND Emma's back!! Excited times two for me. I have a new puppy, Eli and my daughter joined me in another podcast.  Join us as we discuss Eli, his breed, and some of my training and socialization I've been doing with him with agility in mind.

Not mentioned in the podcast, but highly relevant, follow along Eli's one year journey to becoming an agility dog. I am venturing to produce weekly videos in a series called "52 Weeks of Puppy Eli - Agility Training"

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0cn182auqQjfOaNvAm2acGV41YMc4akl

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Episode 13: Why I Love Agility ** What is it that makes agility addicting? Why do so many handlers continue to run agility with multiple dogs for years on end? Find out my reasons and how I view agility. What is your reason why, why do you love agility, what drives you to return to class or competition? Music by: www.benstone.com

Episode 58: Verbal Cues ** Continuing on the Beginning Foundation Agility Workbook, section F, Verbal Cues.

Episode 12: FAST and Gamblers Agility Classes, Not For New Handlers ** I love FAST and Gamblers and all the games classes in agility, but not for my new handlers/students starting to trial for the very first time. Find out more about the games classes and why I think new handlers should avoid them, even if their friends tell them they are good classes to start in. Music by: www.bensound.com

Episode 11: Dog Training, Handler Training and Natural Cues in Agility ** How to recognize our dog's natural cues, trained cues and using them effectively in our handling. Music by www.bensound.com

Episode 10: Why, Oh Why Are Weave Poles So Stinkin' Hard? **Weave poles, the hardest, yet most thrilling obstacle to watch, and for me, to teach. When you hear the roar of the crowd, it is often because of some amazing feat with the weave poles. For the general public, by far, the most hair raising. For the competitor, it is the HARD entrance they have trained for, over and over and over again. Weave poles are a given, they are a trained skill, in soooo many ways. At minute 17:55, Reason #7, the brain is thinking faster than the feet will allow, I talk about a head bob. This video is the first time I caught the head bob on video. https://youtu.be/qnDE7IHpQcA This video was acquired after this podcast was published. Music by: wwwbensound.com

Episode 9: Equipment - Old, New, DIY, Competition ** There is a lot of equipment on the market, listen to some helpful information on what to look out for with old and new agility equipment. Music by: www.bensound.com