fire and control

I haven’t written in a while and while I have no obvious or substantial reason for this, I do have a reason. I’ve been very busy. Now busy in the world of Jen may not entirely be the busy many of you may think of when you choose the word busy to describe someone’s days. But nevertheless, I’ve been busy.

First and foremost in my busy days has been working with Mackenzie. We’re having a few issues with some (hopefully) easily fixable things, but they are becoming increasingly troubling because of how close our trial is and how many of them have come out of nowhere (or so it seems). We’ve also been busy with home repairs including painting the hallway (twice), choosing a new carpet (because Beethoven has ruined the old one), I got a new badass bookcase for all my dog training and behavior books, and Spencer has a bacterial skin infection (loosely called Ringworm).

I haven’t decided if I want to fully make this a training journal or not, but if I’ve got some time and energy (I think I’m coming down with something – Texas tomato salmonella maybe? I do love my SALSA!) I’ll write out the specific issues we’re having including but not limited to:

Recall/Finishing herself early (bypassing the Front)

Down-ing herself during long Sit/Stay

Croooooooked fronts

She is such a clever girl though. And her heeling is breathtaking these days. She’s made some good progress in her swing finish (it’s almost a FLIP …almost) and she’s looking really tight. So for now we’ll end on that note and maybe write more training details later.