While I make dinner, when I catch Raven watching me, I look at her right in the eyes. Then I look away and look back a few seconds later. If she’s still looking at me, I give her a treat. She’s very good at this game. Amongst the dogs, she gets a lot of treats. [...]
Here are some of our runs at this year’s Tailwagger’s Night Trial. Leissl’s late night run on Friday the 13th, August, 2010. This is Raven’s incredibly unfocused run.
Once upon a time, when there was Baby and Leissl and an older generation of Dobies in my house dinner was being made, the dogs would wait patiently on the side lines for me to finish prepping and serve them their meals. There wasn’t any impatience in the air. They knew the food was going [...]
This Sunday morning I got up at 6 a.m. so I could take Leissl and Raven to run-throughs in Boca. (Leissl pictured right after a bird plopped on her.) It was hard getting up so early on a Sunday. The place we went to was buggy. There were gnats and mosquitoes everywhere, and it was [...]
I bought a Kong Wobbler from an on-line retailer. I thought it would be a good thing to help keep my Aussie in shape mentally. Instead of handing her food in the morning, I put it in the Wobbler and let her work for it. It’s a lot bigger than I imagined it would be. [...]