idle musings

Quick recap: Lola ended up getting adopted into another family because just after I decided to keep her, Maia decided that she wanted her dead. She started staring at Lola and stalking her, and pinning her down and making her scream if I didn’t intervene in time. I did the ‘crate and rotate’ thing for [...]

So Lola, the little Mexican street dog, has found her forever home with me. She wormed her way into my heart, the little demon! She snuggles with me like a cat would, which is lovely since I have missed that kind of snuggling since I gave my cat to my parents’ when he wouldn’t come [...]

Finally, pictures of Lola: Self portrait on my couch. Sniffing around like the big dogs. “I do not understand what this ‘come’ word is you keep using.” Isn’t she SO CUTE? I took her to visit Emma yesterday (who was the one who brought her back from Mexico) and she said, “Can’t we just keep [...]

Oh! Oh! And also, on the training front: I have been working on ‘stand’ with a hand cue with Maia. Last night at agility we were working with the clicker in between our turns on the equipment and we did a bunch of ‘stands’ from sit. I saw that she was starting to just stand, [...]

The interview went really well, and I am going in on Tuesday morning to do a short shadow-shift, to see if the job is something I want to do. It doesn’t pay much, and with the amount I’ll be paying in gas to get there it really won’t be paying well, but it’s more about [...]

This last week of work really kicked my ass. My feet are so sore that I am limping around my house, and my hamstrings and glutes are sore and achy. No reason for it – I’m doing the same amount of exercising that I always do. I took the dogs up to the lake today [...]

I am maybe going to get Seven for a whole week in April! Emma might be doing a trip to Cancun to help on a spay/neuter trip and that means Seven gets to come play and snuggle and love at my house. I’m crossing my fingers that it works out, both because I love Seven [...]

Maia has thrown up bile three times since I brought her home from daycare. She is currently lying on a dog bed, watching me with a woebegone look on her face. I hate it when either of my babies gets sick – I feel so helpless.

I sucked it up and went to agility, mostly because I needed my Seven love for the week. The big lesson (the one Dana supervised) was pushing to obstacles and rear crosses on the flat. We also worked on 2x2s for weaves. Maia and I are up to having two sets of 2x2s, both angled [...]

So flippin’ cute. The Boston is like, “I play bitey-face!” and the cat is like, “No, I wash your face. Stay still!”