Making Progress
Rufus is making progress! He is not El Pero Perfecto yet but we’re slowly making strides and he is responding well. The first big thing is that my friend Kate…
Category: Behavior
The Great Internal Kate Debate
My lovely friend Kate was coming up to spend time here over the weekend, just for an afternoon. The issue, of course, was what to do with my terrible teen…
Training progress
I applied some of our new training methods today. Rufus seems to be taking to them well. Even Sophie, a notorious puller on the leash walked lovely at heal, so…
A Terrible Teen
I saw Eric the trainer today with Rufus. It occurred in the afternoon of an already stressful dog day. The day began when Rufus began his wake up ritual, and…
A few resolutions
Rufus will be trained. Rufus will get to a place where he is less afraid of others Rufus and I will be able to run a few miles together without being goofy…
The Dog Park issue
Rufus is a year old. He has a ton of energy. I know that. I get that. And he doesn’t start fights. He barks at strangers as well as those…
The Battle of Heat Vent Alley
When Sophie and Rufus are outside in subzero weather, they run around as if the temperature were nothing. It’s pretty impressive. But once they return to the house they…
Exquisite corpse of an orange thing
What is this? This orange thing in the foreground is a thing that Rufus chewed. I *think* it might have been a part of a broom that he took apart…
Chew on this
This is a growing list I started in May of the chew damage done by the adorable shithead doodle bug, some of it occurring directly in front of me. The computer…
The first night, part 2
Jumping back to April… The crate was not working that first night since Mr Whiny Pants (not his real name) didn’t like it, and I needed to get some sleep.…
Today, December 7
Jumping ahead to the present… It’s my mom’s birthday today! Happy Birthday! She’s in toasty warm Wisconsin, so I sent her wishes from toasty warm Colorado where we are enjoying…
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