Frankie Joiris is one of the top-notch animal trainers in the film, commercial, and TV industry, and believes strongly in the tie between training and a great relationship with your dog. She has worked on popular shows like Sex and the City and Law and Order, as well as movies featuring stars like Angelina Jolie and Robin Williams. She also teaches popular dog trick training programs for film, tv, fun and trick competition.Get Frankie's free training and trick ideas and learn more about her programs here. Get notified up upcoming podcasts or buy me a coffee!

James P. McGee is a highly successful sheepdog handler from Northern Ireland who has won the ISDS International Supreme Championship and the ISDS World Championship. Want to learn from James about training sheepdogs? Check out his Patreon page. His training program is unique in that he shows all the training, from successful to frustrating, and how to work through it all.Get notified up upcoming podcasts or buy me a coffee!

World-class agility competitor Jennifer Crank joins me on The Kathy Keats show to talk about performing consistently under pressure, the importance of focus, training for quality, and how she keeps agility in perspective. Learn more about Jennifer and how to contact her below.Also, if you enjoyed this podcast episode, drop by kathykeats.com/supporttheshow Buy me a coffee to keep the podcast ad-free, learn about my upcoming mental game and peak performance courses for dog sport, and you can also join my email list to get notified about new podcasts on mental game and peak performance in dog sport and in life.MORE ABOUT JENNIFER CRANKJennifer has won every major agility competition in the United States, including the AKC National Agility Championship, the Masters Agility Championship at Westminster, USDAA Cynosport’s Grand Prix, Cynosport’s Steeplechase, Cynosport’s Biathlon, and UKI’s U.S. Open Masters Heats. Internationally, she is the only American to earn 3 different overall individual medals at the FCI Agility World Championship.As an instructor, she has been teaching agility for almost twenty years. She loves it when her students do well in the ring but the most rewarding part of teaching for Jennifer are the shared moments of insight on the training field—those “light bulb” moments where the handler and dog figure something out. You can find Jennifer online at baddogagility.com.

Training a young sheepdog is hard, especially to train them to listen but still keep that natural feel and be able to think. In this episode, I get to sit down and chat with Joni Tietjen, a top trainer with a passion for starting and bringing on outstanding young stock dogs.We talk about training with feel, using the stock to teach, the direction of trialing, and so much more! Joni was incredibly open and authentic—you'll love this interview!Check out Joni's facebook page Buy me a coffee to support the show!More about Joni:Joni has qualified for USBCHA sheep dog finals every year and been in the top 10 National open and nursery finals with numerous dogs. Joni and her dog Ben were the first to capture the National Nursery Championship in consecutive years. 2016-2017She has also been Reserve champion at Meeker, Soldier Hollow, and has finished in the top 5 at Kingston and the Bluegrass.Joni has fairly recently turned to cattledog trials and is enjoying success there as well, winning Reserve champion in the USBCHA Cattledog final 2021 and then MSSA Ultimate Stockdog champion in 2021.Music: Put the Good Stuff In by Studio Monkey with permission

An insightful, hilarious conversation full of wisdom with Karen Ramstead ranging from the journey of preparing to run the incredible Iditarod race to breeding, structure and so much more...!Learn about the Iditarod here: Iditarod.comFollow Karen Ramstead on Facebook here: Karen Ramstead FacebookSupport the show and get extras by going to KathyKeats.com/supporttheshow  

Some people are great under pressure at laying down a great run or saving a potentially disastrous run. Survival in performance is a skill you can learn.

A great conversation about finding flow, staying in the present moment, yet balancing the different elements of performance. Mentioned in this episode:Dudley Shumate's Facebook ProfileSupport The Kathy Keats Show

Did you know there are four types of focus and you are going to have a tendency toward a particular type?And do you know the strengths and weaknesses of that type will affect you under pressure?In this episode, you'll learn the very basics of attentional control and how it can help you perform better consistently.

If you’d like to support the show and keep it ad-free, click here. ☺️Scott Glen has won almost everything there is to win in the sheepdog world with multiple dogs, as well as being a part of the Canadian team that won silver at the World Sheepdog Trial.Lots of tidbits for both the novice and experienced competitor and things to ponder for dog trainers in general.In this episode:staying calm under pressureevaluating stockdogs and youngstersScott's thoughts on *presence* in a trainerbalance in herding and in dog training in generalthe importance of stockmanshipthoughts on some of his great dogs...and much more!You can find out more about Scott and Jenny Glen and what they have to offer by checking out their website at Alta-Pete Stocksdogs and make sure to follow their Facebook page Alta-Pete Stockdogs.

Many people wonder why they aren't getting better faster and blame it on lack of talent. In this episode, I talk about a different way to think about training time and training quality.