Beth's Blog – November 2009 Archive (4)

Agility!

I'm so excited! I've been wanting to get Jack into agility for awhile now. I was going back and forth between that and herding, but have been unable to find a herding instructor. So yesterday I e-mailed a local agility instructor. I had asked my vet for a referral to an agility trainer and was given her name, and she also happened to be our CGC/TDI evaluator.

It turns out she has a class that just started Thursday, so I only missed one. They use an indoor horse arena in the winter… Continue

Added by Beth on November 21, 2009 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments

Maddie found something delightful to roll in!

While we were out playing with the dogs, Maddie rolled in something. Based on how her fur smelled when she came in, I'd say that something small died, and then something larger peed on it.

I think that in the world of Dogdom, that's the equivalent of winning the PowerBall. She was so proud!

Needless to say, two dogs had baths this evening.

Madison was not happy.…

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Added by Beth on November 14, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

My dogs can't count

Two dogs, two crates. You would not think it would be that difficult.

Jack's crate has been in our breakfast nook since we brought him home. When he was younger, we had his exercise pen in there too, but we put that away when he no longer needed it.

When Maddie came to live with us, we set the exercise pen back up in the breakfast nook so she'd have some more space to move around, since we needed to keep them separated when no one was home. We left it up through her spay… Continue

Added by Beth on November 13, 2009 at 7:03pm — 4 Comments

Friends

And to think I was concerned that Maddie was not warming up to Jack.

For the longest time she did not really want to play with him, and now the past two weeks while I had to limit her activity while she healed from her spay, I had trouble keeping them off each other. I finally gave up over the weekend and let them wrestle a little; her stitches are nearly ready to come out and the incision looks… Continue

Added by Beth on November 9, 2009 at 7:00pm — 7 Comments