My Christmas Wish

For 2008, I hope that Shelby stops eating things!
Every time I think she's stopped, and I relax my standards, she eats something she shouldn't, or tears something up.

A couple of weeks ago, she ate some plastic fasteners off my jacket when I left it hanging on the back of a chair.
Then I was cleaning up and getting rid of some books that had been on the bottom shelf of the coffee table for a year (totally accessible to pups) and she tore up one of those when I moved them to the top of the table.
She got onto the dining room table and unraveled a bolt of ribbon.
Yesterday was the kicker. I came home from dinner and she had managed to find some chocolates hidden deep in a bag of other random things and ate about 15 pieces of chocolate.
Don't worry, she's fine.
You would think she has nothing else to do!

Spot's private lesson

I took Spot to 4 Paws for a private lesson, mainly to work on weave poles. Spot really should be in the beginner class, so he needs to catch up a bit. He picked up the channel poles pretty quickly. He did a little better in class this week, but he needs more practice in staying by my side and waiting for direction instead of being so busy and looking for his own stuff to do. I'm still not sure I'm going to continue at 4 Paws, just because I don't really like the class format.

ARFF Christmas Party

Last weekend was the ARFF agility club Christmas party. I mainly went because it was held at the same place the seminar was, and we're signed up for a trial there in Jan and I wanted to make sure Shelby didn't have any bad associations. It was a pot-luck lunch, and we set up a course just for fun. I don't really know many people yet, so it was a little weird, but I did talk to some people. Shelby was good with all the other dogs, who were mostly very excited and riled up. There was one sheltie who didn't like Shelby sniffing her butt, so there was a little growling, but it gave me a chance to correct the behavior.
They also had a raffle with prizes for the dogs and the people and Shelby and I both won!
We ran the course one time and I was very pleased that we did very well. Shelby was attentive and even did 12 poles!

Happy Howlidays!

I had Spot and Shelby's pictures taken a couple of weeks ago and there were some good ones in the bunch. I tried to get Spot and Shelby in the picture together, but we only got a couple frames. So then I decided to get some individual shots. Shelby's were ok, but she looked a little nervous to me. Spot was a big ham.

Here's Spot's official Christmas pic!

Spot and Shelby Support the Writers Strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqx8CsBEyk

Check out this video!