Time with Mom

Jason is out of town for two days so it's just me and my kids (and Finn). Eden and Kastle get to sleep with Mom for these two nights and they seem to be feeling very privileged :-)

Flyball Practice

Eden needs to build some stamina for sprinting (she is a wonderful long-distance jogger!) so tonight I mainly just did the full sequence over and over and over and over. Then we ran doubles. She ran with a dog new to her, Scrappy, and she bailed on the jumps and outed the ball early. To make sure she was successful, she ran alone or with mile wide passes. It seems to me that her jumps are starting to flatten out and get faster and faster and her drive to the box is just about the same speed as Phoebe (who she is running against here), but the boxturn and the speed back are much slower.

Protecting the GSD

The Cardi girls bracketing the big, bad GSD :-)

Personal Guard and a Walk with Cardis

My personal living room guard.

After they were done with guard duty, we all went for a walk :-)

Flyball Training

At flyball tonight I worked with Eden on her boxturn with a cone to help her turn all the way (instead of running straight up, plucking the ball out, and running back), and doubles with Marley.

Intermediate Trick Dog Title

Eden is now an Intermediate Trick Dog! :-)

For this title, she needed to do: fetch to hand, figure 8 between legs, hide in a box, roll over, go to mat, sit pretty, place (around the back finish at basic), paws on arm, heel with auto sit, perch work, teeter, and flyball box.

Here is a short instructional video of teaching Eden a simple trick.

Park with Friends

We met a friend with her dog at the park today so that all the dogs could run around and have a good time expending energy and playing. It was fantastic.

The whole crew.

 Rough-housing with Finn. He'll only be her size for a short time :-)

The girls together are hysterical!

 

My pretty, sweet little girlie.

Group shot of the dogs that actually have down-stays LOL

Coke getting designs on Eden...

There are loads more action photos, particularly of the two Cardi girls play-fighting, HERE.