They just keep changing.  Fortunately, they've never gone hound, which is the one ear set that I'm not a fan of.  I'm not a person that does things to make ears go the way I'd like them to, which makes the ear watch both exciting and terrifying ( Read more... )

Definitely rusty for the Happy Dog show.  Nothing too bad, at this stage Vic really doesn't need much tuning up, but I apparently still need it.  ;-)  Lots of good on the weekend, just a couple bobbles that I could have prevented with better handling and a little reminder to Vic in training that he needs to take jumps.  He is such a great dog, so ( Read more... )

Rich is 12 weeks old today, tomorrow will be 3 weeks since the crazy day I went to get him.  He spent the morning hanging out at the park while I taught and then this early evening we hit a local outdoor market.  I didn't realize how good that is for puppy socializing, so we'll be going back next week for the band, instead of the band's take down ( Read more... )

I was in a rush this morning, so just wanted to get down some thoughts before heading out the door.  So, here are some more thoughts on the soon to be 12 week old Puppy Rich.  He really reminds me of Max.  I mean A LOT.  Much like Max, he choose me as his person the first day, but he also has never needed me to have a good time and nothing seems to ( Read more... )

I spent last weekend knocked out with the flu, totally sucked, having a happy, high energy puppy and the flu is not a good combo.  Rich continues to be a bold, super happy, super outgoing puppy.  Housetraining (fingers-crossed) seems to have hit a breakthrough, with him going to the back door when he wants to be let out.  The other dogs seem to ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Happy Dog Monday, which mean Tired Dogs Tuesday morning.  I actually did some agility with Vic, which was really fun, he's such a good boy.  If he were a person we'd be those annoying friends that finish each others sentences and find our inside jokes really funny, but never can explain them properly to outsiders.  Starlet got her ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if it feels like time flew by or if this is how things have been or if this feels like something temporary and my life will return to the norm it's been for the past couple years.  Just odd, in some ways it feels like this is how it is, in other ways it feels like this isn't really happening.  ;-)  Puppy Rich is a good puppy, ( Read more... )

And 13.3 lbs., I swear he is going to be a small boy, despite his present size compared to Vic's at the same age.  One of my goals with Rich is to get him out and about in the real world more than I did with Vic.  Which isn't hard to do, since Vic's world was always our agility world and hikes, I'm not sure he's ever been in a shopping center and ( Read more... )

Really not engaging the topic of "internationalization", but random agility thoughts I've been thinking of for the past couple months. I predict rear crosses will be the next agility trend.  And I've been wondering why are there so many International handling seminars these days?  Is it in demand because that's what people really want to work on or ( Read more... )

Rich was such a good boy today.  LONG day at Happy Dog and started with logical tentativeness.  Then he noticed the dogs and started vocalizing about what was going on.  Between my first class and first private, he was chasing and tugging like a fool, between ball tosses for Vic.  By the end of the day, he'd been passed around to a TON  of people, ( Read more... )