Quite the day!

[crysania4]

The day started off with taking Dahlia to the vet's (at 8:30am on a Saturday morning...argh!) for another lyme titer. Another $80 down the drain. I'll find out on Monday if the levels have come down far enough to not worry about it or if she needs more antibiotics. I hope this is the end of it. I know Dahlia would very much like to avoid

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[crysania4]

Dahlia doesn't heel at all, unless she wants to be at your side. I just haven't bothered to really teach it to her as she'll stay at my side when needed and it's otherwise just not important to me. When it's off leash time, it's freedom time (within reason). She's allow to run up a head a bit, lag behind, zig zag, sniff things she wants to. Much of the walk is her stopping to sniff something and then running to catch up. She loves it and I love watching her run to me with a big grin on her face.

Sometimes she DOES stay a bit too velcroed to me, but she walks behind me, not next to me (and that drives me nuts as I want to watch her). I really want her to enjoy her off leash time as her time to just explore (if I walked her off leash in the middle of the city it would be a different thing!). Its safe, no cars or anything, just walkers and runners.

If another person is coming, I'll call her to me and ask her to sit while they pass. She does well with that. If another dog is coming I usually leash her up unless the other person says there's no need to.