Weekly Training Update (Dec 4)

I’m not sure this counts as a real training update, but Lilly learned to wear a sweater this week. I’m not big on dressing dogs up, but the seriously frigid temps here this week dictated otherwise. It turns out that it worked a bit like those fancy dog anxiety wraps. Lilly seemed pretty happy and pretty mellow in her sweater. She looks cute too.

{Photo missing as part of a massive blog photo problem. Sorry about that.}

I have to giggle about how well the sweater fits Lilly because Penelope was MUCH bigger, and it appears I stuffed her into this.

My initial reaction was that the sweater made Lilly a little sheepish, but at the end of the first day Tom said he thought she seemed happier. We tried baby onsies and a complicated thing with ace bandages to calm Lilly down at agility, but without the medications and without all the behavior modification we’ve done in that last couple years, the results weren’t great.

With wind chills just crazy below zero here today, I figure a little extra protection cannot hurt. I might look into getting her (and Ginko) more sweaters or maybe a coat. I could learn to knit, I suppose … you know, in my spare time.