Wow. Today I went down and tracked with my friend Debbie, my tracking guru. It paid off! It was stinkin’ hot today — when I was driving at 9:30 a.m. it was already 88 degrees… 

It was dumping rain in fierce buckets when I woke this morning, but we went tracking anyway. I took my oiled-leather hat, but the rain faded and it was merely muggy and moist during our… 

I was recently asked to teach some baby tracking to a few and since then asked to do a post on beginning tracking, and while I readily acknowledge that I am not a tracking expert,… 

There will be no puppy training this week, as I’m on vacation. 🙂 Laev is comfortably established in a roomy kennel with a trusted petsitter caring for her and giving her zoomie times, with friends… 

I went out to lay a track this morning, about the same time that Roger brought the earthmoving equipment to fill in an old discovered septic tank and do some grading in the field. I… 

ye gads, has it really been a week without tracking? Wow, I’ve been bad. I’ve been giving Laev less training time, since her teeth hurt and she’s easily distracted, but then I feel guilty about… 

Just a follow-up to my previous post: I am fairly convinced that it was just the heat which was bothering Shakespeare, and not some dire creeping death. He perked up considerably when a cold front… 

I was reviewing in my mind today things Laev has seen or experienced, and I thought of some highlights: escalators motorcycles (seen, not ridden) wadded tarps that drop her into unexpected puddles agility teeter agility… 

Ah, teething. The age of complete and total brain fade. She’s still bright and enthusiastic, but she can’t focus on me for more than a couple of seconds. Nor can we play tug now, so… 

Indianapolis has 12 months, just like most places, but they’re known here as January, February, Mud, April, Welcome Race Fans…. I’m not a race fan myself, but every year I attend a cousin’s traditional Race…