A List

A List of Non-Dog Items I Bought For the First Time Because of the Dogs:

Salad Tongs
Cottage Cheese (image the guy at the Supermarkets face when I asked for help finding the "full fat" cottage cheese
Pumpkin Pie Filling
Various other foods such as baby food, tuna, ground beef
PVC Pipe, glue and cutters (what a great tool!)
Hacksaw
Baby Diapers (got a comment from the cashier about late night runs to the store for the baby)
Other things such as an SUV, Construction/ Worklights, Play sand etc, but the first items struck me the most as "how strange I am buying this for or because of my dogs"

I just worked with Pie trying to keep her attention on my face while heeling. Bait spitting is the key. I have the hot dog piece in my mouth and when she is staring at my face I spit it at her and she catches it and eats it. She was catching nicely the other day but today apparently it was more fun to snap frantically as it arcs through the air towards her, then allow it to bounce of her nose and finally root around in the grass for it. I think she will improve (in heeling, and probably in hot dog catching also) but it will most likely take some time. If I want to do it right that means to showing until she is reliably better or I am allowing her to be wrong in the ring, which is the last thing I want.

Speaking of the last thing I want, Dottie is horribly handler focused. Which is super in obedience but killing me in agility. I want her to be obstacle focused. As it is, she runs along beside me (ie- not very quickly) and doesn't take the obstacles because she is staring at my face. NO Dottie! I am not going to spit hotdogs at you in agility!

I'm not sure if I mentioned it on here but last weekend Fancy stopped eating. I took her to the vet and her blood and urine work is perfect. She has slowly been regaining her appetite but is still being picky. I'm feeding her anything she will eat including (ugh) Science Diet kibble. I had one can of Natural Balance venison left and she ate that entire thing in pretty much one gulp. This morning she ate some cheek meat which was encouraging because she hasn't been wanting anything raw. Of course, she is allergic to all this stuff so she is itching and licking, but at least she is eating. Her tummy is so full it looks pregnant. Being that Fancy has a sensitive stomach I'm worried I'm going to wake up to some kind of mess so much to her unhappiness, I made her sleep in the shower. Easy clean up.

June Gloom is here with a vengeance. But it burnt off finally late this afternoon and the evening was very nice.