Weekly Training Update (June 26)

Last Saturday, we met with Jennie (our behaviorist) for a follow-up consult. We first saw her in summer 2008. I had hoped to check in earlier this year,

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Weekly Training Update (June 19)

I managed to crank out a LOT of work earlier this week, which means everything sat on others’ desks come Wednesday. I do have a few revisions and

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Weekly Training Update (June 12)

We finally made it to class on Sunday. We hadn’t been since the middle of March, and it showed. Lilly was relatively shut down at times. Gigi (our

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Weekly Training Update (May 29)

I find myself astounded that a work week with only four days can include what felt like TWO Mondays. It’s been that kind of week for a number

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Weekly Training Update (May 22)

I have one tremendous victory to report and two setbacks. Our Visit to the Nursing Home As you may recall, my mom scared the heck out of us

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Weekly Training Update (May 15)

Another odd week from top to bottom. We haven’t been doing much formal, training-session training, but Lilly did have some adventures, including a vaccine reaction from her veterinary

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Preventing the Inside-Outside Issue

Even though this spring has been more like winter than winter was, I’m starting to see inklings of our summertime recall collapse, where suddenly Lilly acts like coming

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Weekend Visitors

Despite a work schedule and pace that may just make my eyes bleed, we enjoyed some weekend visitors. One unexpected. One not. Our buddy Angus, who came visiting

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Weekly Training Update (April 17)

I’m swamped with work, so I didn’t get to do much scent work this week. I tried capturing some of our struggles on video, but it’s really hard

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Hiking with Daddy-O

Despite threats of rain/snow, we took Lilly for a fairly long hike last Saturday. I moved slower than Lilly and Tom, after a week of intense weight-lifting workouts

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