Tip Tail

Well we did a lot of dog things this past weekend, kept us busy and we had a lot of fun. Saturday we had the huge snow storm and that kept us indoors. Sunday there was too much snow on the ground, about 10 inches, so no flyball for a while and that is [...]

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Today it is snowing. And not just a little bit. It is dumping. It’s gorgeous as you can see. I was going to go to the USDAA agility trial (I am not entered) and work with Chase and socialize Tatum, but I don’t want to make that 20 mile drive in this kind of [...]

Tatum can get anyone to play with her. She is amazing. The most amazing collie girl I have met. She’s spry and limber and fast! I swear she’s as fast as Chase, our border collie. My Husband thinks she is faster. Which is amazing. Now, how to harness that speed so she’ll [...]

Well tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I love the holidays. It’s too bad they go by so fast anymore. I hope to start decorating for Christmas this coming weekend. Hopefully I’ll have time. Sunday is going to be a big dog training day. Tatum will get very tired again. She gets to go to [...]

I took Chase out today for some obedience training with some other friends. Did I mention that I had him out Thursday night to class and he was a mess? A complete mess. No attention, no focus, no brain, all over the place. Even having treats out.
Today was about the same. He [...]

The funny thing about our pack is how the dogs all get into a pattern and it’s hard to break it. For some reason everyone piles on Lucy when they play, and they ignore the other dogs. It might be because she is pack marm and Angel started it. When it was just [...]

Finally, today is Friday. Whew. Long week. I guess that’s to be expected, the week after vacation. I want to go curl up in front of the TV with the dogs and my knitting and a blanket and relax.
I am going to attempt to go to Thunder Paws Flyball practice on Sunday, with [...]

Well, you know, border collies get bored easily. Chase keeps nosing me and staring at me wanting to go do something. You know, staying in a hotel means we get to do fun things!
I wonder how close Lake Mead is. I might ask at the front desk and see if we can find a [...]

Had an agility/obedience/drive shaping lesson this morning with Chase at the agility yard. It went really well. It was interesting to see how we was after his run at the fun match a couple of weeks ago. And he did have some drive leakage. In other words, he lost his brain a bit, [...]

Maybe I should start a new series of posts about different dog breeds. I love learning about different breeds. My favorite are the herding breeds, but there is one group of dogs that has so many varieties it’s amazing. That’s the terrier group. I have been watching a number of different terriers in [...]