Monday, July 23, 2012

Shasta - This is a Great Dog

This has nothing to do with training but I want to write again, Shasta is a great, great puppy.  Yesterday I was finally cleaning my closet and 5 minutes into it, there is Shasta, literally lying in the closet.  Love how she finds herself close to me all the time without being shy or lacking confidence.  I don't know what the future holds in the ring but she is an awesome companion.

I know it's the "Roxy factor" but I am already worrying about how short of a life she will have.  Hopefully I can get over that to a certain extent, at least not worry about it consciously as I do now.

We've been training some over the last week but it's hard to do much when it continues to be HOT.  Or more accurately, HUMID.  What a stretch.  Dewpoints 65-75 for over a week.  Maybe over two weeks. 

But the little I've done has continued to go well.  She fell/jumped off the mini-dog walk once.  That's a good thing, I want her to learn how to fall off while it's low.  She might not be a mudder.  That is, if we show outside in the rain, I don't think she is going to be a willing participant.  She really hates the rain at this point.  But she might be a good... what...  heater?  ;-)  Shasta is showing me that she can work focused and with normal drive in the heat.

A post or two ago I mentioned how fast she does this short little sequence that she is comfortable with because we've done it a number of times.  Here is a 20 second video of it.

1 comment:

  1. She looks great and I appreciate your ideas and videos -- sharing is a good thing :)

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