I wanted to do some training, so I pulled a bag full of chopped treats from the freezer. The treats were of course frozen together, so I left them on the counter to thaw a… 

Well, I made the right choice. Laev bombed her track on Saturday, which was I think part loaded-for-failure (as I said, we weren’t going in good shape) and far more lack of preparation. She’s tracked… 

So… yeah. A couple of weeks ago, I realized that Laev had a gunfire problem. A real gunfire problem, not just the minor twitch I thought we had. It’s tough with Laev; she doesn’t show… 

Now don’t get excited; it wasn’t that great a performance. It’s the penultimate day of UDC Nationals. The day started well, though, in that we weren’t having the thunderstorms originally predicted. We left the hotel… 

Councilman Mike Speedy has sent an open letter in response to protests of his breed-specific “at-risk dogs” proposal. I thank him for this, because it is perhaps the clearest indication yet offered of his motivations… 

I just want to take the opportunity here to point you to this: http://expositionhat.blogspot.com/2009/04/councillor-speedys-big-bad-wolf.html I had another long talk about BSL this afternoon; it seems we have to fight its proposal annually in my otherwise-delightful… 

I somehow injured my neck and back last week, and I woke up on Saturday feeling fairly lousy. So I skipped early morning club tracking and instead let Laev out into the yard to air.… 

So it’s finally nice spring weather, and I was celebrating by leaving the front door open so the dogs could wander in and out and so I could have some nice spring air. This open… 

Saturday I took the Dobes to a CDSP obedience day — two trials. A handful of clients came to see the first trial, as I’d suggested some of them might want to consider CDSP obedience,… 

UPDATE! The phone rang a bit ago, and it was TDI! It was a different staffer, and she was not only friendly and polite, she was helpful! I explained to her the situation, and she…