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08/10/2024

Maine Mounted Search and Rescue riders are training their horses to follow human scents in the woods to find missing people. Two teams will be certified in June.

07/29/2024

Don't miss out! Our Christmas in July sale ends soon. Get 25% off dog sport tees and decals at ShopCanineAesthete.com 🎄🐾

07/28/2024

lol!!!!

07/28/2024

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FALL NH TRIALS!!

You are receiving this because you have volunteered in the past for one of our trials. THANK YOU!!!

We have three trials coming up this fall two weeks apart from each other. You may not be able to volunteer for all of them but would you please look and try to volunteer for one? Ask your friends, ask your students, ask your friend's students and your student's friends?

We will all be juggling quite a lot for the next few months. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Camp Carpenter, Manchester, NH - September 7-8, 2024 - NW3

William Lawrence Boy’s Camp, Tuftonboro, NH - September 21-22, 2024 - Elite

Holman Stadium, Nashua, NH - October 5-6, 2024 - NW3, NW2

All premiums, information, and volunteer sign ups can be found at: TheBigSNiff.com

Please email [email protected] with any questions!

Thanks so much,

Maggie Pate
The Big Sniff, LLC

07/14/2024

Common sense here

And only use stainless steel bowls

07/06/2024

A day in the human/Dog relationship!!

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06/19/2024

05/26/2024

Just couldn’t resist!!

03/28/2024

Just give them a chance ❤️

03/13/2024

Dogs are always honest in their reactions, it’s our job to figure out what they need and train accordingly

https://www.facebook.com/seespotlearn/posts/809631541172873

02/26/2024

This is the difference.

02/09/2024

How would your horsemanship look if you knew you had limited time left, less than you thought?

We have been here before. About 5 years ago, Sani got misdiagnosed with something awful. For one year, I thought we could have months, weeks, or days left. It was at that time that EH coalesced into what it is today.
Thankfully, it was a misdiagnosis and we disproved it. And despite managing a digestive/immune disorder, Sani has been happy, healthy and thriving these last years.

About 8 weeks ago, I noticed a new, barely imperceptible brace in the right rein in our riding. It was new because he has very few braces these days. I took note of it, unanswered. And explored it in groundwork.

About 6 weeks ago, Sani was just a touch slimmer than usual. I saw this as an improvement, but also confusing. I had not changed anything, and he usually is a little bit on the heavier side of normal. For him to suddenly be at a normal body weight, to suddenly loose the fat across his ribs, was unusual. I actually upped his feed. Rugged him during weather I usually never had to rug him.

Within 4 weeks, I noticed he lost a modicum of abduction on his right fore. Despite that being one of his typical strengths, forelimb abduction.

About 2.5 weeks ago, I noticed a lump under his right jaw. Within 10 days, it had grown.

We had it removed with our vet, and sent for an analysis.

We have salivary gland carcinoma. Confirmed. No misdiagnosis on this one.

Prognosis is reserved. Salivary gland carcinomas are usually malignant. But on his analysis there was a lower than usual concentration of cancerous cells compared to cancer of this type that is usually presented. Is that due to my early detection? My sensitivity to his needs and changes illuminated the problem like princess and the pea? I do not know.

My vet is doing some research on what can be done. I rarely ask for help.

But please help me. Help Sani. If you know of experts, or friends, or yourself who dealt specifically with salivary gland carcinoma, please run do not walk to my email [email protected].

I would like to exhaust all options at our disposal.

So I am circling back to a genesis story; how would your horsemanship look if you knew you had limited time, and every moment was important. Every moment should represent not only the integrity of your techniques, but also the heart you put behind it. This is what forged Sani and I together as an inseparable team, the horse that changed my life.

I have learned the following

- You are less likely to want to use force. And anything obtained by it feels inappropriate, a waste of time. So if it cannot be discovered together with your horse, without force, then it is not worth it. The ends are not worth those means.

- You are immensely grateful. Regardless what the horse does for you.

- You are careful, patient, considerate and never demanding to your horse.

- You become aware that the relationship you share with them is the be all and end all. And their physical performance is your cup running over with joy. Not the thing you are entitled to.

- Entitlement to the horses performance becomes this vague, bizarre memory of a side quest that was a entire waste of your time and missing the point entirely.

- You go deep with your horse in communication

- You discover a lot of joy in this place

That is what how horsemanship, perhaps, should and could always be.

Don't wait for a reason to force your hand to find it.

02/06/2024

Nosework people it’s all about locations! Ann is awesome!

St. Jude Sniffathon 2024 New England Scent Dogs’ second annual Sniffathon to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Date: Sunday, February 18Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pmLocation: Brookwood Community Farm11 Blue Hill River Road, Canton MAhttps://goo.gl/maps/9B6WMcQhCYJGRuTh8Cost: $60 nonrefun...

01/30/2024

“I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now.

I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.

I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.

I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.

My time is too short: I want the essence, my soul is in a hurry. I don't have many sweets in the package anymore.

I want to live next to human people, very human, who know how to laugh at their mistakes and who are not inflated by their triumphs and who take on their responsibilities. Thus human dignity is defended and we move towards truth and honesty. It is the essential that makes life worth living.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.

Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.

I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets. I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.

My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.

We have two lives and the second begins when you realize you only have one. "

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Beautiful words of wisdom by Mario de Andrade.

Fabulous portrait by Michaela Ďurišová. She creates the stunning crowns and styles every aspect of the photo shoots.

01/30/2024

Clean Run is excited to be hosting our first Nose Work event!

NACSW Odor Recognition Tests
Birch/Anise/Clove
South Hadley, MA

Saturday, March 2, 2024

You can get the Premium in the Events section of the Clean Run website - https://www.cleanrun.com/product/nacsw_odor_recognition_tests_premium/index.cfm

01/22/2024

Nosework students
Well, the famous Recon is already 18 mos old and has weighed in for the contest! He grew fast and furious still has some maturing to do though. As of yesterday he weighed 73.2, I even gave everyone an extra week😜

I’m posting a photo of the prize, a NW cookie jar, Recon and your guesses.
The winner is Maggie Pate with the lowest guess of 78 #!! Honestly I’m glad he’s not a hundred pounder!!

12/25/2023

Another year has come and gone with lots of changes. Thank you all for your support and for letting me spend my time with all the dogs!!

12/04/2023

Why punishment “works” Thanks https://www.facebook.com/rplusdogsbehaviour/