This week we’ve traveled up to Minnesota to take the dogs to the rehab vet again. It’s been an adventure as always – great traveling, I had a second person (and her dog) with us this time, making me a little less stressed about some aspects of the traveling. Read more…
We’ve had a lot of woods walks and adventures. He’s still young enough to stick close most of the time, but we’re able to get in a lot of woods walks. We accidentally had swimming – he wasn’t sure that he liked that but he also didn’t dislike it too Read more…
We did our first WCRL rally trial of the year today. Three trials in one day – I judged a whole trial (my first time with Level 3), ran Griffin in all 9 classes and Blaze in two! Because all of my hosting and judging responsibilities my dogs didn’t get Read more…
Griffin and I had a good opportunity to an obedience run through at a new place last night. There are not many places around here offering that option, and this worked out really well because it was a brand-new-to-us location which would be a good test for how he might Read more…
This week we learned to use the ChuckIt. I had never used one before and my attempts were quite embarrassing. I was glad no one was around to watch. Viktor helped as a demo dog in a few ‘big dog classes’ this week. It’s fun to alternate between him and Read more…
This was a great week! It was finally warm enough to get out and do things outdoors! He really likes to jump and climb – he’s so happy to know how to get on furniture. He loves to roll on people and get right up into their faces if he Read more…
Last week we had another vet visit for his last round of puppy vaccinations. That went even better than last time in most ways. I also had him walk in on his own this time and we had great walking, even past the cat! On Sunday morning we did additional Read more…
I’ve been reading dog things online for a long time. Many of the blogs I used to read no longer updated or are now more businessy than sharing/recording training. In the last year I’ve also started reading some horse blogs – and what I’ve found is that the horse blogs Read more…
It’s amazing how settled we are into routines now. He still asks to get on my lap to sleep most afternoons- but now he’s a little too big for that to be comfortable for us. I can’t fit him and my computer. Saturday classes were canceled due to a snow Read more…
It’s been another week of too many single digit temperatures. On Friday we went to a group training class and Saturday morning was puppy class. He did such an amazing job sitting at my feet while I was teaching. Sometimes I left him in an open crate with a Kong Read more…