Liane Ehrich, CVT

Thank you everyone who came out! The weather held, and the competition was excellent. A lot of great runs!

When we look at our dogs, most of us feel a deep connection. I love my dogs, but do they love me? The answer to this question may...

Starting any new sport can be daunting. Dog sports, especially, have the reputation of being uninviting to newcomers. This is why Peg and...

Ask your dog to do an obedience behavior. Now ask your dog to do a trick. Is there a difference in their demeanor? do they like the trick...

Time is the one thing we can never seem to get more of, with family and work demands stacking up, and no room left at the end of the day,...

Obedience classes teach things like sit, and stay, but let's face it, many pet dogs don't use these skills very often, whereas, skills...

When we talk about obsessive behavior in dogs, we talk about certain behaviors that the dog does, seemingly without purpose, and in many...

I began focusing on obsessive behaviors in animals in the 80s with my first mare. A neurotic QH that stall ran her weight off, no matter...

We just finished a two weekends of trialling in Frost, Tx at Jackie Tinker’s Arcadia Ranch. The second weekend was the first Australian...

There's this idea, peculiar to many pet dog owners, that conformation is irrelevant unless you want to buy a 'conformation' dog and show...

Like many trainers, I try to bring in folks every year to host workshops. I love workshops! I love the shared experience of learning; I...

If your social media algorithm includes dogs at all, you'll see targeted ads by dog trainers trying to gain your business. Many of them...

The biggest issue I see in dog training is impatience. I get it! I sometimes get ahead of myself and find myself over facing my dogs too....

This fall I took Tagg and Brisco to Texas to learn how to dog-break cattle, and how to handle cattle with dogs. Cattle, unlike sheep,...

Matilda does IGP (or Schutzhund, or IPO, or Bitework, or whatever you want to call it this week). I'm not implying that she does it well,...

I love rabbit holes. I enjoy learning all the things I do not know, and the Terra Norte Herding Symposium in Wellington, Colorado is the...

I had the honor to be invited up to Wellington, Colorado to learn from French Pastoralist, Benoit Voisin, an SCC judge, who was teaching...

There's nothing like the sound of our dogs adding their voices to sirens or the song of coyotes. Many people ask why their dogs howl....

How do you feel looking at the photo above? Some people think, beautiful landscape. Some people think, How terrifying! What if I fall? Or...

The most upsetting thing our dog can do to destroy our trust, is bite us. Being bitten by our own dog is incredibly stressful, and of...