Canine High Jinks
The Canine High Jinks Podcast is designed for the dog owner who wants to explore more than just pet ownership and discover the wider world of training and dog sports. It may even convert the casual pet owner into a dog sport enthusiast. Join dog hobbyists Elissa Looney and Whitney Taylor as they share their dog training journeys and the resources you can use to enhance life with your canine friends.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Episode 62: Learning About Running Small Dogs
In today’s episode, Whitney and Elissa are joined once again by Sarah Baker, multi-time world team member with dogs at 24”, 16” and 12”. With Sarah’s experience as a guide, the trio discuss the dif…
Episode 61: Learning About Course Design
Course design is ever a hot topic. Join us as we discuss with Ashley Deacon.
Episode 60: Learning About What We Wish We Knew
Whitney and Elissa talk about what they wish we knew sooner in our agility journeys.
Episode 59: Learning About Whitney's WTT Experience
Whitney talks about her experience at World Team Tryouts this year. Learn about how to qualify for WTT, what it's like to prepare, the atmosphere, scoring, and so much more.
We talk at great length …
Episode 58: Learning About Handler Speed
Episode 57: Learning About Retiring a Young Dog
Today’s tough question, how do you know if you should retire your young(er) dog from agility? We may wander off track here and there, but you know, it’s all about dogs and agility 😆
Resources referen…
Episode 56: Learning About Startline Stays with Fanny Gott
All about startlines!
Episode 55: Learning About Obstacle Commitment
Peyton Green, agility instructor at Corral Creek Dog Sport Center, talks through obstacle commitment: how to build it, test it and fix it when you broke it. We dive into the difference between sendin…
Episode 54: Learning About Feedback
Whitney and Elissa tackle a big topic...feedback. We get it from each other, our instructors, our dogs. We give it, maybe when we shouldn't. Listen in as we walk through many of the permutations of f…
Episode 53: Learning About Goal Setting
It's here! Our long awaited episode that we recorded all the back in May of 2023. This episode has a bit of a different flavor since we are sitting outside under a canopy of trees surrounded by fello…
Episode 52: Learning About Our Break from Podcasting
Here it is! A brand new episode! Listen and learn what we have been up to while we have been away from the mic. We will also tell you about what is changing with the podcast and what will stay the s…
Episode 51: Learning About Failure - Part 2
Are we gluttons for punishment? Or just curious? Or is this just part of dog sports? Tune in to today’s episode, chock full of memeable nuggets, as we more fully explore what it means to fail in dog…
Episode 50: Learning About Failure
Elissa and Whitney tackle a topic that can be hard to get at through all the “pressure to be positive” on social media, failure. What do you do when you set big goals, work your butt off, make sacr…
Episode 49: Learning About Getting It "All" Done
In this episode Elissa and Whitney discuss how they get it all done, or more accurately, spoiler alert, how they don’t. There are a lot of tangents and stories in this one. In fact, see if you can gu…
Episode 48: Learning About Options for Cruciate Tears
Episode 47: Learning About Training Discriminations
Have you ever felt like your dog was just guessing when you gave a verbal cue? Or wondered how on earth you can train verbal discriminations with your dog at a huge distance away from you? Fanny Gott…
Episode 46: Learning About Better Reinforcement Strategies
In this installment of Canine High Jinks, we discuss the power of better reinforcement strategies and the seminar by the same name with Liz Randall and Rachel Downs.
You can sign up for their session…
Episode 45: Learning About Training Off Breed Dogs
Are there only certain breeds that can be successful in agility? It is a fair question and one that MANY people have wondered about, your hosts included. We ask someone uniquely qualified to answer, …
Episode 44: Learning About Training in Multiple Sports
Have you ever thought about trying a second dog sport but worried that the skills and training would be at odds? Then this episode is for you!
Kirstin O’Neill joins us for this episode to talk about…
Episode 43: Learning About Starting a Dog Sport Facility
In this episode Whitney talks to Elissa about the multi-year journey that led her to being on the cusp of opening a dog sport facility. We talk about all the different iterations of the idea that we …