The most difficult exercise to train in all of dog sports is the object guard in the various ring sports. Last week I released a 2 hour, 10 minute training video with Michael Ellis titled The Foundation of Object Guard Training. In the DVD, Michae...

On September 8th, Cindy Rhodes and her 5 year old Belgian Malinois, Rush, competed in a Mondioring trial in Harris MN, scoring an impressive 286 points out of 300 for their level 2 title. This was the first leg of Rush's Mondioring 2. Before compe...

The hand touch game is something that 8 week old puppies or 8 year old rescue dogs can be trained to do. Once they learn it every dog loves the game. The hand touch is trained with markers, you can either use a clicker or you can use a verbal m...

Cindy's dog Rush is recovering from a leg injury, so she decided to take Raine, our 6 year old female Malinois, back to agility classes. This video is the first time Raine has done agility in 3 years. Who says dogs don't have a great memory? Ma...

This weekend we were digging through some 20 year old VHS tapes and found this video of Cindy winning the Mid-Central Regional Schutzhund Championships back in 1991 with her female Doberman, Elka vom Schoenenberg SchH 3 IPO 3. The video quality is...

I filmed this video back in August of 2008, when Cindy's dog, Rush, was just 11 months old. We were doing our normal training when this cat walked up. It is not our house cat. Rush makes a few mistakes in his send away training, but for an 11 mont...

Preparing for the second leg of Rush's Mondioring One title.

In this video we will see Cindy, Rush and our friend Jeremy Norton training rush in handler defense for Mondioring One. If your not familiar with Mondio it is the most difficult and most fun of all the biting dog sports in America. The dogs lo...

Cindy & Rush training Mondioring protection at a Michael Ellis seminar. Rush is learning the search/escort and defense of handler. Rush is 2 years old in this video. Part one of two.

Today's newsletter video is a follow-up video of our dog Morgy. In the summer of 2010, we produced a newsletter video of Morgy and the fact that she had degenerative myelopathy. This video is one year later and shows the progression of the disease.

with Michael Ellis - January 2007 Raine is the mother of Cindy's competition dog, Rush.

I filmed training session of Cindy and Rush at a Michael Ellis training seminar that was held in Iowa this past weekend April 18th and 19th 2009. The focus of this clip will be on polishing the retrieve for Rush, who is 18 months old in this vi...