The Underdog

The Underdog We believe your dog is a workhorse. Regardless of age, size, breed, or prior training, your dog is ready to work — and so are you.

We work with the simplest praise/correction system we've ever seen. There's no need to complicate things.

Sniffing. 📷
29/11/2025

Sniffing.
📷

Bean’s weekend…This is kinda what I mean. Bean just doesn’t care. Despite the stress, the chaos, the absolute mess of a ...
12/11/2025

Bean’s weekend…

This is kinda what I mean. Bean just doesn’t care. Despite the stress, the chaos, the absolute mess of a weekend, she got:
Two 1st
Two 2nd
One 3rd
One 4th
Diamond
Ruby
Winner Intermediate
High in Trial
AKC Rally Advanced Title with one placement in 4th

During Saturday’s DDT, I spent 7 whole ass minutes unknowingly CORRECTING HER FOR INDICATING (the most illegal sin).

And she was still like, “nah bitch ima try my best,” even when we entered Intermediate on Sunday. Intermediate requires calling “clear,” which we had never done in this context. Bean did not care.

On Sunday, we barely made it to our final leg of Rally after erupting from a sweaty lucid nap in the parking lot. We literally walked in the door straight into the ring, and she qualified. So long as 100-point Mary Drexler and Betsy Coleman are there we’ll never place on Rally and I’m fine with that. 😂

But anyway this is what I mean. Bean is a fu***ng freak. This is not me, at all, I broke everything this weekend and she somehow single-handedly stitched it back together.

It makes it even better that she wasn’t even supposed to be my dog. I applied for a couple breeders and initially denied offer for a pup from Litter B. But when the other breeder didn’t work out, I went back to Bean and was like “okay, guess we’ll try it and see.”

Lol, we sure are seeing.

Second image is from October’s DDT Trial with . Fantastic event, fun venue with weird wind that really challenged us.

hosted the DDT this past weekend and did a great job, and also somehow agreed to work around my disgusting schedule.

Fine, I guess we’ll keep sniffing.

Dogs like Bean are uncommon. Dogs that qualify in any sport with minimal training. She got all higher level titles with ...
11/11/2025

Dogs like Bean are uncommon. Dogs that qualify in any sport with minimal training. She got all higher level titles with only 2 NQs. She has a 92% pass rate and almost always places.

This is. Not. Normal.

It’s some training, for sure, but it’s also just HER. Genetics, personality, temperament. I often wonder if littermates had an identical upbringing if they’d perform the same way. But all we have is the facts, and the fact Is that Bean is a fu***ng freak.

So, naturally, when I received Zeev on October 11 I entered him for:
5 RATN
3 CD
3 BN
3 RN
2 ATT
3 CGCs
8 DDT

Except RAT, all events were on the same weekend. Because I am dumb as hell. And also, just 4 weeks from the date of receiving him for board and train. This was a bad idea and I knew it, but I just had to scratch the ol’ “what if?” Itch.

We didn’t do it:

✅✅❌❌❌2/5 RATN
❌❌❌0/3 CD (scratch)
🏆❌❌1/3 BN (his one pass came with a 191 and a 2nd place)
✅❌❌1/3 RN (scratched him for 1 of 3)
❌❌0/2 ATT (lost his absolute MIND at the umbrella)
✅✅✅3 CGCs (pass x3!)
🏆✅✅✅❌❌❌❌❌8 DDT: 4 beautiful, qualifying runs. One 1st Place and a Diamond Award (perfect score). Scratched him for the other 4 because of an injury.

Excluding DDT because of its unique point structure, he has a pass rate of 36%. One might call this abysmal.

I knew it was a su***de mission to even attempt it, but I just wanted to KNOW. HOW WILL I KNOW THE LIMITS IF I DON’T PUSH THEM TILL I BREAK.

Equally stupid but we both try our best. sumida.photography
15/10/2025

Equally stupid but we both try our best. sumida.photography

Felony Cute | Out of Place | Odd But Charming In that order. sumida.photography
15/08/2025

Felony Cute | Out of Place | Odd But Charming

In that order. sumida.photography

Felony Level Cute | Out of Place | Odd But Charming In that order. sumida.photography
15/08/2025

Felony Level Cute | Out of Place | Odd But Charming

In that order. sumida.photography

I love this stupid dog 😭😭3 Firsts, 1 Fourth + High in Trial
21/07/2025

I love this stupid dog 😭😭
3 Firsts, 1 Fourth + High in Trial

Little Nemo earned his CGC and CGCA last night! He failed CGCU for the 3 minute down, but at only 4 months old he’s the ...
16/07/2025

Little Nemo earned his CGC and CGCA last night! He failed CGCU for the 3 minute down, but at only 4 months old he’s the youngest CGC I’ve seen! So okay fine — we’ll take the NQ.
Plus, remember, it’s okay to NQ. Everyone does it and maybe if you’re passing every test you take, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough.

This is the kind of praise I expect when I show up to work on time 💁‍♀️
22/06/2025

This is the kind of praise I expect when I show up to work on time 💁‍♀️

Let’s talk REWARDS. Dogs love to do jobs. But no one wants to do a job they don’t get paid for! For a dog, a paycheck ca...
15/06/2025

Let’s talk REWARDS.

Dogs love to do jobs. But no one wants to do a job they don’t get paid for!

For a dog, a paycheck can look like verbal praise, a pat on the head, a treat, etc.

Anytime your dog performs a task correctly, they should get paid. The type of payment we give them depends on the difficulty of the task performed.

The more exciting the task, the more exciting the reward!

If you have questions on this, send us a DM 🐶

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We believe your dog is a workhorse. Regardless of age, size, breed, or prior training, your dog is ready to work — and so are you. We work with the simplest praise/correction system we've ever seen. There's no need to complicate things.

And, of course, training for the handler is imperative. We'll teach you how to teach your dog for the best results — quickly.