idle musings

There were coyotes out in the forest tonight. Maia was acting extremely anxious – walking in heel, bonking my hand with her nose, jumping up on me – and I couldn’t figure out the source until we stopped and I heard them barking and howling. I learned that playing stick fetch calms Maia’s anxiety though! [...]

Tonight was the last clicker class that I am taking Bosco to for the next while. Unfortunately it is too expensive to continue doing the class. If Dana taught independently (and closer, while I’m dreaming) then I would do it in a heartbeat. She is, however, going to be teaching beginners Rally-O, and I will [...]

I have finally figured out ‘stand’ with Maia. I was using ‘touch’ with my hand but I didn’t want her to mess up the signals so I have made ‘stand’ to be my middle and index finger pointing out to the side. She still reads it as a ‘touch’ but I click and treat as [...]

Maia, Bosco, and Seven have a rousing game of bitey face.

Seven was featured here last weekend when I posted videos of his amazing inaugural agility run, when he Q’d 7 out of 8 runs. He is 20 months old and has never spent a night away from his human mum, Emma, so I have taken him for the night. Maia and Seven have been great [...]

I love the blissed out look in a dog’s eyes as their belly is rubbed.

Maia and I ended up having a really great agility class tonight. I was worried that her anxiety would transfer over to a bad class, as has happened before, but she did great! First up we did the dog walk for the first time ever. It wasn’t at full regulation height, which I believe is [...]

I am falling more and more in love with Bosco every day. He has started actively soliciting attention from me, and one of my friends made the point that maybe he has adopted me now. Who knows how long he has been bouncing around for, and it would make any creature feel insecure to not [...]

Yay, it worked! Here is Emma and Seven running in Starter Standard: And here they are running in Starter Jumpers: