April 2019 - Bernhardt's Journey

are natural built in features one has to carefully orchestrate and direct. When you know very little or just something about a topic your intuition can become your strongest ally. The submission/obedience part of training is the most misunderstood and often wrongly handled link of the puzzle. Any suppression of natural reactions and instincts based on human insecurities or emotions will only lead to fear, refusal, anxieties and even aggression in your partner.When you seemingly know a lot or everything about a topic that requires feel than you truly know nothing. To be with animals is a natural way of life and as such training has to be treated.Our winter season is now concluded and we sit in a comfortable second spot nationwide one inch behind the leader.There are only two “other-mixed” breed dogs in the top 40.

This is what we have so far with a career start in August of 2018 not to forget the WC invite 2019 and an almost confirmed invite to the US championships 2019. WELL…but being me i still see this 28 pounds starved little creature all beat up sitting in Texas in his crate and how amazed i was that there was not even the blink of anger or aggression towards humans in that dog. How forgiving he acted. How trusting he went with anybody. How quiet he sat when Magdalene Guiot gave him a first time bath.And so i can only repeat myself saying that there is that ONE ribbon that really does matter working with animals, the most meaningful one of all. I call that one the human FEEL ribbon.That’s the one we truly should try to win and that’s the only one that matters. Before one ever becomes a meaningful winner one has to learn how to truly be a superior looser. And that is the true meaning of Bernhardt’s story. To be continued…….

Month: April 2019

Power,Precision & Determination

Early Rewards & Prizes