Laev is an enthusiastic tracker. Very enthusiastic. And pretty talented, for a 13-week-old pup. She had a little trouble with a 45-degree crosswind this morning, but other than that, she’s generally right in the footsteps.… 

Sorry for the erratic posting; I have been having a truly terrible time getting online, and I’m averaging about once a week of connection. Not good! Anyway, Laev isn’t learning anything dramatically new except for… 

Today’s post is about misplacing dogs. It doesn’t matter how well a dog is trained, stuff happens. At nearly 4 this morning, Shakespeare poked me with his nose, indicating that he needed to go out.… 

I’m way, way behind on updating. Maybe if I’d had internet access….. Dern phone company delayed hooking up the new account for over a month, and I steal bandwidth from public networks and friends. Anyway….… 

Laev was complimented on her conformation and stable personality as she took shots with little notice. She did pee on the floor, but we’d all confused the fussy insistance at the door with a fussy… 

Okay, Laev’s finally starting to get the “down” verbal cue. I wish I could say what great technique I’d used to make it click for her, but frankly I have no clue. 🙂 I think… 

I haven’t done any preparatory work for agility yet, except inadvertently leaving a tunnel once where Laev could find it and amuse herself by hiding and playing in it. But this evening I introduced Laev… 

Overheard in public tonight: “Wow! That dog’s only ten weeks old and it already knows sit on a hand signal!” Well, actually, we started with the hand signal, but I didn’t mention that. I did,… 

Wow, what a delight in my inbox today. I returned to several days’ worth of unchecked mail, because my time’s been taken with other things (more on that later), and found a number of hostile… 

Oops! I didn’t mean to cause a panic with my mention of Shakespeare in the last post; I got a couple of emails about him. He’s absolutely fine. 🙂 But I have been kicking around…