A Day with Kay Laurence

The big training event around here recently was a quickly organized one-day workshop for fifteen lucky clicker trainers, taught by British clicker teacher Kay Laurence. Mary Ann Callahan did an incredible job of pulling a workshop together on short notice. (Kay made the trip to deliver my daughter Gale Pryor's new border collie puppy, Pheobe. Gale who is editor and book production supervisor at Sunshine Books, saw the litter on our business trip to the UK in March and found the perfect apprentice for the now-elderly family border collie Esme. Ezzie, who helped raise all three of Gale's little boys, has taken on her new charge with complete calm, treats her kindly but firmly, and really does teach the puppy what to do, an interesting sight.)