Well, today my lil’ Sis packed her bags and headed for my Aunt’s place, far out in the middle of no where. My Mom, Sis, Holly and I all packed up the car to meet my Aunt and Uncle half-way.
This is Pt. 1 because my Sis is coming back and we’ll make a similar trip this coming weekend.
Holly is used to riding in the middle seat on her own, being able to spread out without any problems, have a little room. It’s taken two years to get to that point. So, with my mom and Sis in the front, I sat in the middle seat with the Princess. Let’s just say it was a stressful ride there. Stressful enough, in fact, that I didn’t take a single picture.
Holly eventually settled down, but conditioning her to riding in the back, and on the floor is definitely on our training to-do list.
We hung out at the little railroad-side park for a while. Waiting for the relatives to get there. Holly was still stressed out and, since the place was deserted she was allowed to have a good sniff-around, intersperced with photo shoots, and short basic obedience work.
The relatives arrived and, with operation Rendezvous successfully completed Mom, Holly, and I piled back into the car and set out for the noise, and general chaos of our rainy city.
With the entire backseat to herself, Holly was a happy puppy, and perfectly content to doze most of the ride home.
So that was how our big trip went.
Before I sign out though, is it just me, or do relatives seem to be oxymoronic by nature? These particular relatives are wonderful, but I had a clash of opinions with them in the 20 minutes we were there. Apparently I’m not feeding Holly right because I’m not supplementing her diet enough… um…she’s raw fed. I know what I’m doing, and my dog isn’t going to drop dead.
Also, when I was working with Holly I kept getting told to “just let her have fun”. Really? So when I’m training her I’m mean because I don’t let her drag me around, but when I let her drag me around she’s badly behaved and “too much dog” for them? Huh??
Ah well, take what I like, and leave the rest. I’ll stick to my ways, they’re working just fine.
For now, we Pacific Northwestians have scuttled back into the slightly cooler, but not air-conditioned darkness of our homes. To the rest of the country, we envy you sooo much right now!
Hope you all are having wonderful days!
Kat & Holly
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I get told sometimes I need to let Daisy “be a dog” too (and I’m not training for SD work, just normal stuff). But what is wrong with wanting a dog who can behave themselves in public?? Daisy gets way more time to ‘be a dog’ than in training.
Oh, that is annoying! Its kind of like those folks who think a 3 year old greyhound should be “retired”. My greyhounds have more fun and more freedom because they are well trained and work hard.