I meant to enter this several days ago, but my busy boy has kept me hopping the last few days. Dudley has been given the A-OK from the vet. I took Dudley to the vets office on Monday to have him checked out. Dudley was so much better than I wanted to have him checked out to see if he could resume "normal" activities. Our vet says that Dudley has good muscle mass and his legs are symetrical in mass. She gave him a thorough examination and watched him walk and run. She said that if she didn't know his history, She'd never guess that he'd ever had a problem. YIPPEE! We've got the green light to get back to training. We're to take it slow, but tell that to Dudley. He's getting so antsy I can't keep him occupied! He's starting to get mischevious. He's become a sneak trying to find new things to do while I'm working. We had to put another baby gate up on my office door because he'd started sneaking in while I was working and taking stuff out in the back yard to "play". On Tuesday he stole a dog training DVD. Maybe he was trying to tell me something? Something like "come on Mom! Let's get back to it!" Yesterday he stole my Palm Pilot out of the charger! Now that was quite the accomplishment because it's right in front of my desk. How he managed to get that without me noticing is beyond me. But It's a clear message. "I need more to do Mom!" So I've got a training session scheduled for tonight. Agility groundwork is on our agenda. We're going to practice being in the right place and how to follow hand signals. That's where we were before he had his surgery so I'm sure we'll pick it back up quickly. And tomorrow, we're back to herding. I contacted our trainer and we're just going to give him a few minutes with the sheep. Nothing too long or strenuous. We need to start slow and build his stamina back up. But at the same time we want to keep him interested and I want him worn out! I think it's also time to start our traking training up too. I'm going to work on our schedule for tracking training this weekend and plot out a schedule so maybe we can take him to Cardigan Nationals next year to get his tracking title. Wouldn't that be grand? And Mr. Dudley had a photo shoot on Sunday. Check out his new pictures. They're a hoot! http://kevin.zenfolio.com/p296061522/