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Addressing Bar-Knocking Behavior
035 Megan unpacks her thoughts about bar-knocking in this requested episode.
Megan's favorite jumping experts: Linda Mecklenburg https://awesomepawsagilityacademy.com/current-classes/ Dr. Leslie...
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Adjusting Criteria in Training
034 Should you make something easier in training or try to pivot in another way? Find out what Megan thinks in this episode!
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Recapping Sprint's Agility Debut
033 Megan shares her experience debuting Sprint, her two-year-old Border Collie, in agility competitions. Find out insights into what Megan saw change in Sprint's behavior over time and how well the debut strategy...
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Are You Ready to Compete?
032 When should you start competing and what does that look like for each team? How to plan to maximize success all comes down to the splits in behavior that we need our dogs to understand.
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Using FEO and FnG Effectively
031 For Exhibition Only and Fix and Go On are two tools we have in the competition ring that can help us narrow the gap between how our dogs perform in training versus how they perform in trials. In this episode,...
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Agility Course Analysis
030 Megan talks about learning the course from the dog's perspective, the importance of sticking to the plan, the five phases of course analysis, and course memorization tips.
Join Megan on June 1st at 6pm PT for her...
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Repairing Startline Behaviors with Sarah Espinoza-Sokal
029 Megan interviews Sarah Espinoza-Sokal about her experience repairing her Kelpie, Zi's startline performance. Megan and Sarah unpack the unique pieces of the training puzzle and discuss why each piece was important...
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How Outside the Ring Behaviors Impacts Inside the Ring Behaviors
028 Optimal level of arousal is necessary for optimal performance. Does your dog's arousal increase in the parking lot of the agility trial or is it later in the run, like at obstacle 15? Let's take a look at how your...
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How Trialing Informs Your Training
027 Data from our training sessions inform future training sessions, right? What about trial data? Are you practicing during the week the issues that come up on the weekend? Is your current way of analyzing that data...
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Training on Their Timeline with Sarah Stremming
Sarah Stremming, Cog Dog Coach, joins Megan to discuss how their two youngest dogs, Rayya (Sarah's Icelandic Sheepdog) and Sprint (Megan's Border Collie) have completely different training plans and are on really...
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Who Should Know Better?
025 When I hear, "Oh, they should know better", I cringe a bit. In this episode, I unpack how I understand the reality of needing to let criteria go sometimes, and what that means for the big picture of competing with...
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Increasing Motivation
024: In this episode, Megan shares her thoughts on building more desire for training in our dogs. Using reinforcement consistently and in the right situations gives our dogs the confidence to be all they can be!...
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