One of the things they tell you to look for when hiring a professional trainer is what titles that trainer has achieved with his or her own dogs. I don’t have many - Redwood, Rowan, and Jester got their CGC’s, which is a pretty basic, easy title to get. Never got around to it with Dyson, and Teak flips out if I leave for for 14 seconds - 3 minutes with a stranger isn’t happening.
Rowan and I attempted AKC obedience, and even though she did great, I didn’t read all my rules and screwed it up for her by giving her double commands - what do I know.
I tell people that I don’t have many titles because I am too busy working with other people’s dogs and training on the weekends to worry about pursuing titles. I tell them I’m not really all that competitive, that I don’t enjoy the insane amount of politics (which I really don’t, and is why I hate hate hate anything to do with the AKC), and that it is expensive - which it is.
But you want to know the Real Reason why I don’t compete? Honest to goodness the truth? It’s because you have to get up FUCKING EARLY to go to these events. I have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow for flyball - I haven’t seen 5 am in I don’t know how long. I’ll do it, cause I love my dogs and they love flyball - but there you go - the truth behind my lack of titles. I love my sleep more.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by michelle
Filed under: My dogs, Training
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