Running agility with your pup – with Kaiden – can have some very big highs… and some very big lows. Running agility with your pup… a person will learn many, many lessons – if you are open to those lessons. I’ll tell you though when it all comes together for that moment – when you’ve had a great run… when you are actually connected through a run – the feeling coming off the course is one of pure joy. I love that feeling… very few things like it!

As Kaiden and I head to our trial site – each and every weekend – I have a “playlist” of songs that helps me set my mind “right.” They play – and I sing to Kaiden. I don’t think Kaiden even needs the music – it’s really for me – and he just humors me.

One of the songs that is on the playlist is a song that I heard on one of the walk throughs at a trial. It truly brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. It is called “My All American Boy” by Janet McLaughlin. It is a song about her running agility with her dog Carson (in the song… I changed Carson’s name and put Kaiden’s name in its place!).

The last verse goes:

"Kaiden" run
Right here beside me...
Now go out to where you need to be...
To finish - follow the line that connects your heart with mine.
I love agility with you "My All American Boy"
My All American Boy - I thank God for you!"

The line “To finish – follow the line that connects your heart with mine” is what touches me. You see – I believe so much in that connection – that bond – that love – between you and your dog. It is so very simple, so very deep and so very pure. I am grateful for the opportunity to run with “my little buddy” and to truly feel “the line that connects his heart with mine.”

Thank you Kaiden! Love ya little boy!