Training Tuesday: Raising a Performance Puppy

Trainer Barbara Currier shares advice on getting started.

This Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast is used with permission of the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. 

Wondering where to start with your performance puppy? What skills should you focus on? Do you modify things based on what the puppy is showing you? Barbara Currier shares her take, based on 25 years of raising performance puppies. 

Listen to the complete podcast below.

 

About Barbara Currier
Shortly after adopting her Chihuahua, Barbara got involved with agility in 1998. In 2004, Barbara and her husband Michael were relocated to Virginia, where she started teaching agility at All Dog Adventures (fka All Dog Playskool) in Richmond, Va. It was there that Barbara was introduced to Susan Garrett and her amazing foundation-based training that is centered around impulse control and relationship building with your dog. She continues to train with some of the best handlers in the world, including Jen Pinder, Kayl McCann, Jaakko Suoknuuti, Janita Leinonen, Mary Ellen Barry, Jenny Damm and Nicola Giraudi. She has implemented what she has learned from them into her training program. Read more about her experience and training methods.