Weekly Dog Training Update (Nov 5)

Dear Sam (and others who are longing for dog training news), I wish, wish, wish I had the time/energy to work on new things with Lilly, but I just don’t with all the family medical dramas that have been brewing non-stop since summer 2009. We have high hopes for spring 2011, though. So, don’t give up on us yet. While I called it an update, it’s more like a wish list.

The Humane Society of Boulder Valley now offers a Control Unleashed class. Woot!

And, we’re still dying to tryout Treibball, which we hope will still be offered at the fairgrounds not far from the bottom of our canyon by the time we have TIME to take one. Check out their YouTube Channel.

In the meantime, we might work on some tricks over the winter … this prolonged nose target from Rounder (the ridgeback who also inspired our Clean Up trick) is a hoot.

I wonder if it would work for our attempt to teach Lilly to dust mop the floors. I have been working on her pushing the mop head around with her feet (with little success), but if she could push with her nose … that might be funny too.