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Look closely and Dulce is under a table chewing on a chewy. Before I got up she was the corner PFC the sofa. Love that she is growing up finally.

She actually did a small set of poles at Dog City and quit.  But tonight she is weaving in the back yard WITH no guides.  I had to put them back up when she went into heat.

Both sides.  Very nice hopping.

I think the only thing that Dulce isn’t doing, is the weaves.  Well, she did one set of poles in class and then decided they weren’t weave poles.

I’m hopeful about the new class location, though I’ll have to drive an extra 5 minutes….

I have Dulce in Hollywood Dog Class, and we have two behaviors we are working on: knocking down and rolling a bottle and crawling.

Actually got some time to work on them last night — and while I don't have a good down, and I have beginnings of a decent crawl.

However, she got bored with the bottle thing — I think she was saying, "already know that one mom".

Lately I’ve been very busy in the evenings or exhausted.  Still don’t feel like I have my life back even though physical training has been over for several weeks.

Took the afternoon off after Macy’s Q, spent some lazy time on the way to the gym and when I got back, pulled out some agility equipment.

Irritating as Macy does perfect teeters at home in the back yard.  She also does beautiful weaves:  difference: mom isn’t out over the course and there is food.  Lots of lovely food (according to her).

Dulce is weaving but still has quite a few weave pole guides up.  Good news is that her brain in back.  She is also doing good teeters and contacts in the back yard.  But the contacts are very high.  We have a full sized teeter and a contact trainer.  Might still by teacup obstacle, haven’t decided.

She does a beautiful tunnel, and after some very Lucy Ricardio  tries, managed to convince her to get into the chute and through it – my goals for tomorrow’s agility class. 

We’re getting a bit better at Fast.  Macy got the bonus today but not enough points to Q.  She’s really slow today and not sure how to speed her up.

We also ran clean in JWW but the buzzer went off as we were setting up for the last jump.  Again, just not sure how to get her to go faster. 

Weather is a little warmer than she likes it.

We have a LONG wait for Open Standard but that’s okay, we have plenty to keep us entertained.

Here’s the router I run in my classroom and the car, so I have internet for my wireless devices (iPod and the like).  Love it, and have had as many as 4 devices using it at once.

Knew the course, but at the last second decided I was wrong.   She had it, was on the AFrame and I called her off.  4 paw rule and I put her back on the a-frame so the judge whistled us off.  Wasn’t sure how to fix it either, and still aren’t.

Bummer.

But we had 2 clean runs for the weekend, 1 Q with a 2nd place, a vast improvement over the dog that would run out of the ring.