Daisy Peel

There's a lot of tension in the community at the moment to solve these problems that we've created, and I think we're kind of right on the cusp of that next step.

The agility world's a little behind bite sports, I think, because 20 plus years ago, we all got introduced to the miracle of clicker training and thought, oh my God, we can accomplish all this stuff without using harsh punishment.

Let's do it.

You can get really far without any aversives, but there's going to come a point where you're going to have to employ their use.

A lot of people don't have any strategy to keep the dog from acting like an idiot on the end of the leash because there's not been any strategy to institute any consequences.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, thanks for inviting me.

It's cold and disgusting outside here in Ohio, so this is the perfect way to spend the afternoon.

I have been on the American Kennel Club World Championship team nine times, but I got started in agility way back in 1998.

I was a high school chemistry teacher.

And I remember when I took the classes to learn how to be a teacher, there were these classes that, I didn't have a dog yet, but there were these classes that introduced me to this guy named B.F.

Skinner.

And I thought it was pretty cool.

I thought that the pigeons in boxes stuff was pretty cool.

And at the time, the teachers were all about, well, we need to teach these kids how to think.

So B.F.

Skinner, he's not real cool anymore.

And I remember thinking, well, I don't really care what these kids think.

I don't care how they think.

I just want to teach them the behavior.