This morning we joined a friend and her 5 month old lab pup on a walk. He’s a fun, bouncy pup. At that age where social graces are often a quite bit of a struggle. Observing him shift from in…
Whistle Recalls
I remember it being so challenging learning to whistle as a kid. My dad can make a very distinct sharp whistle sound of the side of his mouth. I’m not that talented. But once I did learn to whistle, I’m…
Foiled
Zora is perturbed. She’s more than perturbed quite frankly. See, I put a bell on her. The bell is on her CoyoteVest that she wears on our woods walks. And it means she can no longer chase chipmunks. I’ve spoiled…
The Recall Game!
There are loads of games you can (and I do) use to teach and reinforce the come cue (aka Recall). Round Robin, Restrained Recall, Tag, The Stalky Stalk Game, Hide & Seek, Treat Toss, The Bowl Game, and more. But…
A Walk with Tom & Zora & the challenge of overhead obstacles
It’s been a while since I did a walk video so here’s some footage from today’s walk with friends at a state park. It was chilly and a bit windy but a lovely day for a walk. (ok now it’s…
She Found My Glove!!
Zora found my glove!! Ok the start at the beginning Today we went on our usual Tuesday walk with our friends. Usually on Tuesdays we go to a different place to walk, but they recently decided to make that place…
Say no to Coyotes!
It’s Vampire Corgi! Ok no not really, just Zora in her new CoyoteVest. Over the past few weeks I’ve heard report after report within 20mile radius of small dogs being attacked by coyotes. One image of a large tomcat in…
A Perfect Kind of Day
Fall is really one of my favorite seasons. Depending on the year it can be a toss up between fall and spring for me. I find the season change mentally refreshing (physically, ugh, my body hates season change, but mentally…
Run!
There was nothing tentative about the way the dogs were acting in the woods today. In the pouring rain. It was all systems go for blast off!! I enjoy walking the dogs in the rain, mostly because no one else…
My how you've grown
Today on our walk as I easily called Zora to heel off leash as an off leash dog up ahead about 30′ away stared us down, I said to my friend, “A year ago I never would have let myself…