Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The wild child is at it again!
I know I have not posted i a while. Things are going somewhat the same. Toby and I are still working obedience on Thursday night. Last Thursday night we were promoted to the next step toward heeling off lead. I know I should be excited but after agility class last night I am just totally drained. For the past several weeks Toby has gone back into the zoomies. That sucker is fast! But what good is it if he can't play with me? He still wants to do his own thing! I even had very yummy treats last night. Yes I stooped to the frozen Bill Jack. I don't like that stuff. I don't think it is very good for the dogs but right now all I want is to get Toby's attention long enough to train him. I thought for sure that pulling him from agility and doing flat work and obedience was the best thing ever. It would have been if that cured the problem. It didn't so I am back to square one. Now I am thinking about pulling him from class once more. I think this time I am just going to do some privates with Windle and see if we can work thru this problem. Some how Some where I will get an answer. When we get a light bulb moment I will be in absolulty glory.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Great night sad week!
Monday night Toby and I headed off to our agility class at BF3. We had a very good night. Toby got upset with me only once! That's a record! What happened is I had to take Toby over two jumps and then go on tunnel. After the first jump I should have given the command go on tunnel so that Toby knew where is was going before he got there. After the second jump Toby had to slow down and look back at me to see where I wanted him to go. That upset him. At work we have a name for this, it is called Dev-T. Dev-T is anything that someone does that causes you to waste time getting what ever you are doing done in a timely matter. Man, I here Dev-T all day long at work who would think that the dog would be hollering Dev-T to me in the middle of an agility coarse. Whats up with that! Anyway, that was the only time Toby did a zoom. The zoom was very short and when I called Toby he came straight to me. So that was a great night.
The sad week is from several things that happened this week. First of all, on Monday afternoon during lunch I decided to go down the street from where I work to fill my car up with gas. Someone had hit a dog and left the dog in the middle of the road. If only I had been 15 to 20 min earlier maybe I could have saved that dog. The really sad thing was the dog was laying in the middle of the street across from a Veterinary office. How sad. The next thing that got to me was hearing about someone that I had just met a couple of months ago. A very nice person and someone I wanted to get to know. She has been very sick for a very long time and is getting worse. From what I am hearing she only has a couple more weeks here on this earth. A good friend of mine sent me a video clip of her last run with her dog. It was the perfect run in every way. From the skill of her handling her dog to the joy coming from her and her dog. Lis you are a Class Act!
Then I read an email about A sheltie dog show in Colorado. It seems that one of the dogs died due to heat and altitude sickness. I just can't imagine! Taking your dog to a show and having fun then before you know it they are gone. And to something so preventable. Turn the Air conditioner on Please! Dogs get hot too!
And of coarse dealing with moving and leaving all of my dearest friends. I know I will be OK once everything is said and final. But poor Toby. He also has great wonderful friends he is going to miss. But hopefully we will be able to visit a lot. The house in Georgia is going to be big enough for everyone to come stay with us from time to time. You just wait and see.
The sad week is from several things that happened this week. First of all, on Monday afternoon during lunch I decided to go down the street from where I work to fill my car up with gas. Someone had hit a dog and left the dog in the middle of the road. If only I had been 15 to 20 min earlier maybe I could have saved that dog. The really sad thing was the dog was laying in the middle of the street across from a Veterinary office. How sad. The next thing that got to me was hearing about someone that I had just met a couple of months ago. A very nice person and someone I wanted to get to know. She has been very sick for a very long time and is getting worse. From what I am hearing she only has a couple more weeks here on this earth. A good friend of mine sent me a video clip of her last run with her dog. It was the perfect run in every way. From the skill of her handling her dog to the joy coming from her and her dog. Lis you are a Class Act!
Then I read an email about A sheltie dog show in Colorado. It seems that one of the dogs died due to heat and altitude sickness. I just can't imagine! Taking your dog to a show and having fun then before you know it they are gone. And to something so preventable. Turn the Air conditioner on Please! Dogs get hot too!
And of coarse dealing with moving and leaving all of my dearest friends. I know I will be OK once everything is said and final. But poor Toby. He also has great wonderful friends he is going to miss. But hopefully we will be able to visit a lot. The house in Georgia is going to be big enough for everyone to come stay with us from time to time. You just wait and see.
Friday, April 11, 2008
What a week
Well by now most of you all know that we will be moving to Atlanta Georgia. The move will take place sometime around late summer early fall. I am a little sad because I have such wonderful friends here in Texas. However, I am getting a little excited to meet new friends and be closer to our families. I have been promised a huge flat yard so I can continue to train Toby in agility. I have been told by several people that Georgia has some top notch schools for agility. So that is what is making me so excited about the move.
Last night Toby and I had basic obedience class. We did very well if I might say! I have been working on Toby's sits. He still wants to rock back into a slopping sit from time to time but for the most part he is doing great. I have been told that he has to develop different muscles before he will be able to hold a straight sit with out rocking back. The poor guy! During out sit stay exercise after a while I could see his front legs shaking a bit. I thing they were getting tired because he needs those muscle to be stronger. Once he develops those muscles I think he will be just fine.
After class I visited with a new comer to the class. Crystal and her dog Beacon has joined the class. Toby and I were in a class with her out at DDS. I was surprised to see her. Anyway we got talking after class about our dogs when she asked me if I wanted another Sheltie. Her neighbor found the cutest Sheltie in her yard about two weeks ago. Something about this Sheltie stood out in my mind. A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a friend that lives just a little way from me in the Duck Creek Home owners association area. The email was about someone looking for a Sheltie that had run off. So I got the information as to where this Sheltie was and went home to call my friend. You see I am one of those who delete all of my old emails so I no longer had all of the information about where this Sheltie belong. My friend was able to look up the old email and she gave me the number. I called this lady to tell her that I might know where her dog was. I know it was a long shot but something in my gut told me it was her dog. Well about an hour later I got this call from the lady who was looking for her Sheltie. IT WAS HERS! She thought that her dog was long gone but she was driving home with her baby. You could tell she was just busting with happiness. I was very happy for her. I just could not imagine loosing Toby. That would absolutely break my heart! The night ended on a happy note.
Last night Toby and I had basic obedience class. We did very well if I might say! I have been working on Toby's sits. He still wants to rock back into a slopping sit from time to time but for the most part he is doing great. I have been told that he has to develop different muscles before he will be able to hold a straight sit with out rocking back. The poor guy! During out sit stay exercise after a while I could see his front legs shaking a bit. I thing they were getting tired because he needs those muscle to be stronger. Once he develops those muscles I think he will be just fine.
After class I visited with a new comer to the class. Crystal and her dog Beacon has joined the class. Toby and I were in a class with her out at DDS. I was surprised to see her. Anyway we got talking after class about our dogs when she asked me if I wanted another Sheltie. Her neighbor found the cutest Sheltie in her yard about two weeks ago. Something about this Sheltie stood out in my mind. A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a friend that lives just a little way from me in the Duck Creek Home owners association area. The email was about someone looking for a Sheltie that had run off. So I got the information as to where this Sheltie was and went home to call my friend. You see I am one of those who delete all of my old emails so I no longer had all of the information about where this Sheltie belong. My friend was able to look up the old email and she gave me the number. I called this lady to tell her that I might know where her dog was. I know it was a long shot but something in my gut told me it was her dog. Well about an hour later I got this call from the lady who was looking for her Sheltie. IT WAS HERS! She thought that her dog was long gone but she was driving home with her baby. You could tell she was just busting with happiness. I was very happy for her. I just could not imagine loosing Toby. That would absolutely break my heart! The night ended on a happy note.
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