Laev has lousy article indication in tracking — something I’m told is perfectly normal for her age, but that’s no reason to just let it go. 🙂 I also want to start teaching her a… 

We did it. We went to Laev’s first AKC trial. Laev had done an APDT Rally Obedience trial before, but this was her first AKC Obedience trial. I was not anticipating great things. In fact,… 

So we go to Schutzhund last night, and Laev bombs obedience. Completely. She just can’t manage to keep her mind on me while there are other people and dogs moving around, and it devolves into… 

I spent the last week on vacation (whee!) but that meant the dogs were at home (they usually can’t all travel with us, and especially not on a cruise ship). I have an awesome petsitter,… 

Good News:I found a way to keep her upright during stays, which is to get her amped about something and have her wait for it. She freezes up and waits and has now about a… 

Well, Laev got kind of neglected last week as I worked on cosplay, but she’s been doing very well in her bitework. So well, in fact, that our helper was surprised to be reminded this… 

Laev rocked at Schutzhund practice this week — she’s finally figuring out how to focus on me despite other dogs’ presence, and she’s given me some really nice heeling in the training barn. That darn… 

Last night I took Laev along with Shakespeare to rehearsal. Shakespeare has only one scene during Act 2, and that’s the final scene, so it left plenty of time for me to fetch Laev from… 

Laev thoroughly enjoyed our 8″ snowfall, though it’s complicating our article training in tracking (“You want me to lie down in the snow? And stay there?”) Saturday after tracking, I took Laev to the park’s… 

Laev had an inflamation of the third eyelid which was matting her eyes with nasty stuff, so we got some ointment on Nov. 21 for treatment. I had visions of wrestling with a ever-larger puppy…