Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

A is for Agility…(Day Eighty Eight)

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A little blurb about agility class.  Delilah likes it pretty well (honestly as long as you have a speck of food in your hand she is mesmerized.)  But Sampson doesn’t really care for it much.  In fact, he sat down in class with his back to the course as if to say, if I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist! Chet tried to run him today but as soon as he gets to a point in the course where he can see me, he runs right to me.  It made everyone laugh.

The area we are in is pretty small, so it’s kind of tight running the dogs, that combined with the ridiculous amount of people who show up as well as the fact that the dogs all have spring fever and act really nuts make it a little difficult to really work your dog.  But we still try.  Delilah can really be a tax at times, but she does all right when she wants to.

I had a couple of small clips, but the blog does not support the format, so I will work on getting them converted so I can post them.  Meantime here are a couple of pictures of this morning.

Sara climbing the A-Frame to assist one of the dogs.

 

If I don't open my eyes, it doesn't exist!

 

All tuckered out.

Day Eighty Four-Tails, Trails and Chipmunks

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Some days this blog comes very easily to me in terms of what I want to write about.  Today is not one of those days.

What I decided to do is to post a couple of pictures of the dogs and write a little bit about them.

Tails:

Lately I have been finding that some of my favorite photos are of the backs of the dogs, while they are looking at something.  In this picture they were  in the doorway of the porch looking at a beautiful spring day. 

What does the day hold?

 

Trails:

This is one of my all-time favorite pictures.  It is of Chet and Sampson when we were hiking at Valley Falls in Vernon, I liked this picture so much that I had it enlarged to an 8 x 10 and I had it printed, mounted and framed.  The technique makes it look like the picture was painted instead of photographed.  Sampson absolutely adores hiking and when I look at this picture, I see a happy dog.

What lies ahead...

 

Chipmunks:

We have a couple of chipmunks in the yard, they have a little “highway” system, through holes, drainpipes etc.  One of their favorite places to hide is under the deck in front of the french doors.  One of Delilah’s favorite places to wait for those chipmunks is right in front of the french doors.  As soon as she sees one, she loses her mind and rushes to the door, charging through it at full speed, barking and growling.  Of course, she is warning the chipmunk that she is coming, but no amount of pep talking can convince her that this isn’t the way to capture this chipmunk.  Sometimes I swear that chipmunk knows she is waiting, I can almost see him flipping her the finger before he ducks under the deck.

Which way did he go?

Day Seventy Nine – What to write about

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We took the dogs to obedience class tonight just to get them out of the house.  It seems like everyone had the same idea because there were at least 20 dogs there.  Besides the basic obedience, we had the “balance beam” and a couple of jumps.

I call it the balance beam, but I think Sampson calls it “walking the plank!”

Sampson does not like the balance beam; there are other dogs that don’t care for it either.  We usually try to get the dogs to try things, but we don’t like to force them.  Tonight Sampson did well, he got up on the balance beam.

 

"Walking the Plank"

Delilah however, walks the plank like a model on the catwalk, almost as if she can’t stay off it, so while I tried to get a picture of Sampson laying on the plank, up came Delilah.
 
Sampson and Delilah
Sampson and the ‘Model’.

Sorry about the eyes!

 
 
It is a fun time and good to help reinforce your basic commands with your pups!
 
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