This is the second of a few emails I’ll be sending out as a recap of my recent week at The Michael Ellis School For Dog Trainers in Santa Rosa, CA, where I attended Kynology 4.0, a symposium on modern dog training. My brain is pretty full right now, so I’ll be splitting this in to several emails, and then converting them to blog posts here at daisypeel.com.

May 1, 2026
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Kynology 4.0 Recap Part 2

This is the first of a few emails I’ll be sending out as a recap of my recent week at The Michael Ellis School For Dog Trainers in Santa Rosa, CA, where I attended Kynology 4.0, a symposium on modern dog training. My brain is pretty full right now, so I’ll be splitting this in

April 27, 2026
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Kynology 4.0 Recap Part 1

If you’re gonna get zapped for something, is it better to know about it, or to NOT know about it? And why are we talking about this before Valentine’s Day??!?

February 11, 2026
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Would You Let Your Valentine Shock You?!

Here’s something different from last weekend…a LOWlight reel. All the imperfections from last weekend that I managed to get on video. Why bother showing the good stuff, even? There’s plenty of that out there already, contributing to the fantasy. Here’s some reality.

January 26, 2026
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Perfection is an ideal to shoot for, not a reality

You’re going to want to read (or watch) this one, if not for YOU, then for a loved one…. You know that person at the trial who seems to have it all together?  Maybe their dog is flying, and their handling is smooth as silk, but also, maybe they’re struggling but still smiling, still showing

December 29, 2025
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Heart Health and Happy New Year

Back in the late 90s, some University friends and I got this idea to start a club, and the OSU Society for Logic and Reason was born. We were just kids who believed that reason, evidence, and intellectual honesty mattered more than comfortable narratives. We wrote a Declaration of Necessity that warned against “a flight

December 29, 2025
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That Time I Formed A Student Group At University