Out and about..

Cassie and I havent done much lately. April lies. First its warm, then its snowing. Then it was so nice yesterday..too bad I had to work. Today is Easter, and its cold. COLD! So Cassie and I went out for our walk, cold or not. We were at the boat launch in town and she spotted one of the towns many, many attempts to keep the geese population down. Its the silhouette of a GSD. Well, my bright girl thought this was a real dog. And she begged and begged to go and see it. We got there, and she realized it was a fake. She freaked. Started running around in mad circles, bawking at the leash..the whole deal. I even offered up some cookies to make her calm down. Did not work. Eventually I made her sit, stay and then as a reward we left. We then walked about a mile around town, and she enjoyed that. She even got to meet a dog named Riley, who I think was overwhelmed with her energy.

Overall, things are good with Cassie. On the 27th dog classes start. Cassie will be taking an intermediate beginners class, and Im pretty excited for it. Hopefully, by this time next year, Cassie will have her Rally Novice title. Thats the goal. Im going to train hard with her this summer, and then put her in the Plattsburgh fun match, for Rally and Pre Novice obed. If she does well, then hopefully we will go on to a Rally comp. in VT. Keep your fingers crossed!

a whole lot of nothing...

Cassie and I had a fun evening tonite... We were at the dog club field playing and then a friend of mine came to the yard with her dogs as well. So Cassie had a great time running around crazy with her doggie friends. I'll never be able to express how much I love having a dog that gets along with every other animal she meets.

Other than that, we didnt do much. No real training today. I didnt have any ambition. We are meeting her doggie friends tomorrow as well, so there prolly wont be much training then either!

That poor spider...

This story has nothing to do with dog training. It has to do with team work. Team work that almost made me want to vomit. I am not a big fan of spiders. In fact, I hate spiders. But there is this one particular spider that I felt sorry for. Yesterday evening while I was watching tv, I noticed Cassie and Kit (the cat) obsessing over something on the floor. I then realized, they were tag teaming a poor spider. Kit killed it, and Cassie was **trying** to eat it. Each time, she would put it in her mouth, and it would come back out missing a leg, or something. As I was getting up to take the poor body away from them, she looked at me like "Oh no you dont!" and she swallowed it. Tell me that isnt the most disgusting thing. ever. I wanted to throw up every time she tried to lick me last night.

On another note, Cassie and I are going to start working on what she needs to get her CGC/TDI out of the way. I really want her to end up doing some sort of Reading with Rover program at an elem. school. However, I think she is still a little too active for that right now. We'll see what happens.