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14 Weeks(Mollie loves her really. Maybe only when she’s asleep.)

Vaguely continuing from my previous post, I love this:

Getting ANY puppy, from ANY brilliant line, after a TON of research, after EVERY aptitude and health test in the book, is still a risk. You never know what happens, you never know what the outcome (or the influences towards that) will be. Even if you do everything right, something can still go wrong. This risk is not a problem for me. I commit to my dogs regardless, whether they will turn out to have issues (health or behavioural), they can live happy lives with me and we will deal with it. It doesn’t make the risk any less. I think most agility people have the hope that their new puppy will be a ‘little better’ than their previous dog. It is natural. But 99.99% of use couldn’t care less after the first week with our new addition. Our boys (and girls) just crawl into our hearts and stay there. Oh please, still do your research and your tests! VERY important to try and minimize the risk as much as we can.

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Chaos Theory

Although I feel obligated to point out that I don’t hope Rio is a “little better” than Dylan, I hope she’s a lot better, just as Dylan is a lot better than Kim. If she’s only a little better then I’m doing a terrible job of learning from my mistakes.

Early Mornings in November

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Early Morning November I think the big dogs are enjoying their Rio-free walks. They get to enjoy them for a while longer yet, as even when she’s allowed out, she’ll be heading out on much shorter walks until she’s grown a bit more. Kim or Mollie will chaperone one younger dog each, depending on the day and the time and how cold it is. Kim doesn’t like to go so far in the cold. She had to wear one of her snoods this weekend!

The fog came down for the whole day after our lovely morning stroll though. A little creepy, we were glad to be heading home by the end of it.

Early Morning November

Early Morning November

Early Morning November

Rio 12 Weeks

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Rio 12 Weeks

Originally uploaded by kayanem

That left ear was promising trouble even at this stage. It’s dropped into a rose fold at the moment, damn it!

Offering left turns on hand signals now, she’s learning faster than I can come up with new things to do. Our Elephant Trick morphed into “sitting on the box”, which I did not think she would be co-ordinated enough to do (it’s a small box!)

Cannon Hall

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Portrait Fail #2Trip to Cannon Hall was in order. I wanted to go in the Maize Maze, because I’m actually 8, but we didn’t have time.

Also, my dogs hate me.

Well, maybe not. But looking at their group portrait shots, you would think so. Kim is thinking how she can maybe kill me in my sleep, Dylan is thinking bad thoughts that probably amount to “I’ll maybe hide one of my toys, that will show you” and Mollie … well, Mollie’s probably not plotting my downfall, and is actually planning to decapitate all the flowers in front of her with misplaced enthusiasm when released from her wait. Mollie’s was the only successful plan.

Too EasyGirls were very tired after playing frisbee all across the estate, and Dyl was tired because it’s exhausting being stressed. Actually, Dylan did really well. We did some basic BAT retreats from a stressed Westie who was defending his 50ft space bubble, which relaxed him enough to be able to walk past later (no option to go another way, unfortunately), and then greeted some well-mannered Labradors politely and briefly. One minor meltdown which resulted in some barking and major retreating when a Golden Retreiver with a flexi-lead attached came flying down the gravel path, being chased by two young boys, but to be honest I wasn’t awfully relaxed about that one either! Positive reactions to the two small terriers we met later anyway, by ignoring and circling away.