Today I tried to practice some challenging distance challenges with my dogs.

Boy did we suck. There is no gamblers teeter for Otterpop anywhere in her near future. Let’s just leave it at that. Long story of teeter heartbreak. However you can send her to the weaves from bizarre places like relaxing in a lawn chair or a parked car. Very useful for those gamblers Q’s. Ruby, little bit more of a wildcard. I thought that I had spent lots of time working on tunnel and contact discriminations with her, like YEARS, but today she proved me wrong. Such is life when you train dogs the team small dog way.

It was just kind of one of those days. You’ve had them.

But I thought perhaps our distance issues are a problem that could be retrained overlooked by sporty outfits?

We’ve been down this path before. We liked Jillian’s sporty Project Runway coats and sweaters for dog agility wear. But for spring and summer, I saw these golf pictures and I thought, that is the face of dog agility! Lady golfers! They have spikey shoes. With tassels! The ladies looked so nice and friendly with smooth pony tails and this mysterious one glove. There were plaid knee shorts and shirts with collars and little skirts with things to stick your things you balance your golfing balls on. Before you whack it into some bushes or a giant windmill filled with broken beer bottles.