Dahlia is off to the groomer's today. Poor girl apparently looked like she was being tortured as they took her away from David. Of course, once she gets back there she'll become super flirt and make the rounds saying hi to all the doggies. Her "tortured" act doesn't fool me one teensy tinsy bit! The folks from the place tell us she's an ( Read more... )

Wow...the last agility class already! I was never quite clear, for some reason, on whether or not there were 6 classes or 7. It turns out there was 6. The problem? I didn't think to bring my camera just in case. I could have kicked myself! The instructor had a camera but it was a pretty crappy one and it was hard to get action shots off of it ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe we're almost done with this class! Next week, I think, is our last class. And then the following week is something marked "graduation." So we're almost done. I'll be sad when it's over. I enjoy these classes with Dahlia, but as I need to get a new car sometime in the nearish future, I don't think I can spend another $100 ( Read more... )

Is it bad to scare teenagers with your dog ( Read more... )

I can't believe this was already our 4th class! Wow. Time flies. I think there are just two more and then "graduation" (whatever that is exactly ( Read more... )

We arrived at class a few minutes early as some other folks were leaving. We met a couple very nice Border collies and an older dog on the way in. When we got in there, there was yet another border collie and it sounded like the guy was joining our agility class. It turned out that he wasn't -- he was there for the basic obedience class, but had ( Read more... )

From wet water dog to soft fuzzbut.

( Dahlia gets groomed again )

Last night was our second agility class and it went even better than the first class! I think Dahlia is enjoying this. She looks bright-eyed and happy, spends most of class grinning. I know I'm enjoying it, even though I can't get the smell of freeze-dried chicken liver out of my nose! lol ( Read more... )

Last night was our first agility class at Blue Prints Dog Studio. The nice thing about this location? They're less than 3/4 of a mile away from our house. I could walk there if I wanted to, but since this is agility class I wanted Dahlia to have more energy so I opted to drive the short distance ( Read more... )

Dahlia and I start agility tonight and I'm actually nervous about it. Heh. I've thought about it and realized she she doesn't know much outside of normal commands (sit, stay, down, wait). She does know slow and relax, both of which were taught by accident, but she doesn't know heel really and she doesn't know to target anything. Oh well. I ( Read more... )