If you are in the US, today's a holiday for many people. Aside from being a day off work and an extra day to train or trial with your dog, Memorial Day is a day for honoring and mourning members of the military who died serving the United States. If you are grieving a friend or loved one who died during military service, much love to you today. ~~~~~ How have you spent your weekend? Do you have any training or trialing successes (or thoughts in general) to share? I've been busy teaching my Backyard Training Matters class in the Clean Run Learning Center. It's a very busy 6 weeks for me because of the demos and video editing involved. My own personal training is currently focused on conformation work for my puppy since I am entering him in his first show in June. I'm pretty nervous about it. There never seems to be enough time! Congratulations to Charlotte & Bluebell and Jen & Sommer for completing BLACKOUT on the May Bingo Challenge! Want to play for Bingo or Blackout? Check it out here: https://www.skool.com/backyard-dog-training-matters-2491/may-challenge-coming-soon As you may know, I pay to host this Skool group, so if you'd like to help support it a little, consider checking out my coloring books for sale on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/author/brennafender) or start your Amazon shopping through my storefront here: https://amzn.to/49j8XxX. You can also follow me on Facebook and share my reels, which I'm now earning money on! They're always dog/animal/nature related, of course. Here's me: https://www.facebook.com/brenna.fender Thanks for being a part of Backyard Dog Training Matters on Skool! Please consider sharing the Skool with your friends! More people mean more fun! Brenna

Post your Bingo submissions here! Include dog's name and behavior completed with each post. Please no questions on this thread. Ask them in the Rules thread. Thanks! Good luck!

Let's play BINGO! Check out the May BINGO Information Thread (here: https://www.skool.com/backyard-dog-training-matters-2491/may-challenge-coming-soon?p=7a5f0753). Ask questions and get to playing! Let me know if you plan to give it a try. In other news, Backyard Training Matters, a Weekly Training Group with me :) in the Clean Run Learning Center starts today! Please consider checking it out and sharing it with your friends. It's fun, and you get TONS of stuff to work on that you can keep indefinitely. Here's the link: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/backyard_training_matters_a_weekly_training_group/index.cfm Check out the Skool group and tell us about your recent successes, or join in any of the other conversations. See you there soon!

Did you do anything doggy this weekend? I didn't do anything official; on Saturday, I just worked on socializing my puppy by having some family drop by and watch him pretend to be a show dog :) On Sunday, I took the show on the road by taking him to my parents' house to check out their pool. I brought my Whippet, who used to do a lot of dock diving, and he did a bunch of jumping in. My Chihuahua, who is suffering from liver failure, wanted to come too, so he did as well. You can see a silly video I made from our visit at the link below. Tell us what you did this weekend! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RBh4o-J1IFA

The spring session of Backyard Training Matters, A Weekly Training Group, is up for sale on Clean Run! Join now and you can weigh in on what types of things my courses should focus on this session! I made this Backyard Dog Training Matters Skool group originally as a place to continue the conversations and connections formed in my Clean Run training group that meets twice a year. Many of my repeat students are in this Skool now, so I wanted to let them, and everyone else, know that the course is open. I'd love to see anyone who'd like to work on their agility skills consider joining us for 6-weeks of agility training and fun! Thank you in advance for your patience in reading about my course. There's, of course, no pressure on you to register for the course. This Skool group will remain open and free of charge -- it is separate from Backyard Training Matters in the Clean Run Learning Center. I just want to tell you about what I'm doing that's available. If you'd like to share it with your friends, I'd be super happy for you to do that! Here's my spiel for those who don't know me and don't know about this Clean Run course: ***I may not be well known as an agility competitor, but I'm an expert in designing small-space agility training courses (I've written two great-selling books on this topic!), I've got a great eye for handling analysis, and I know how to create a positive and supportive coaching environment.*** If you train agility skills frequently at home, you will find that you make much faster progress toward your agility goals than if you only train once a week at class. *Don't have a lot of space? *Don't know what to train? *Don't have the motivation or support you need to get to work? Backyard Training Matters with ME -- Brenna Fender -- can help! This weekly training group is a unique opportunity to improve your skills in a supportive, friendly environment—all while training in your backyard! Each lesson takes a variety of challenges from upper-level agility courses and replicates some of these challenges in an approximately 40' x 40' space.