Our Saturday with Dogs

Oh what have I resolved?  Three blog posts a week?  For those who post daily… or more often even than that – I have no idea how you do it!  One can’t go even a little while without thinking about what to write, or the week is already running away and one is struggling to catch up.

Saturday was Ixchel’s last obedience lesson. We’ve taken her through Puppy training and now Intermediate obedience.  She did relatively well.

What we’re seeing is, Ixchel is smart (yes, I know everyone’s dog is the smartest).  Well, she is.  Anything we strove to teach her during her classes, she learned.  We, on the other hand, have not always been the most consistent in her training.  In spite of this, she does well.  We probably won’t be enrolling her in Advanced level Obedience until summer 2012.  With Scott’s classes, Ixchel doesn’t get the practice during the week that she should.

This Saturday we also did doggy grooming for Princess Nikki.  In addition to her bath, I had her trimmed a little.  Okay, a LOT.  In some ways she now looks SO cute!  However, I think I had just a bit too much trim work done.  If I can get her to stand still long enough to get a picture, I’ll post it later, either tonight or tomorrow.  But, if it’s tomorrow, I MAY just count it as one of the three posts this week!

Grooming hasn’t always been high on our list of things to do for Nikki.  She hates baths so much.  And she is so timid, that she just shakes and trembles.  But she seems to do a little better with professional grooming, so this year I think she’s going to get more frequent baths, but done professionally, especially since Ixchel gets them every two weeks!

After class, and once Nikki was done with her spa treatment, we went up to Fairmount Park and walked the dogs for a while.  This, too, is a new experience for our 10 year old doggie, Nikki.

Should we ever become guardian for an overly timid dog like Nikki again, I think I know now NOT to honor their timidity, but to begin working immediately to draw them out.

With all those plans, one would think we would have done more work this past weekend.  Alas, the weekend proceeded to get away from us after devoting 40% of Saturday to the dogs.