More Rain

It has been rainy for the last couple of days and it’s supposed to rain for the next few days.

The garden is wet and muddy and messy, so I will wait to work in it for a few more days.

But today it is not raining.

Today is a good day to take my dog for a walk.

But “take my dog for a walk” is really a misnomer when what I really do is follow my dog, isn’t it?

I try to be good, I really do. The latest training technique to keep your dog from pulling your arm out of its socket is one where you let the dog pull and you stop. You give the command heal and then you wait for your dog to loosen the slack. When the dog loosens the slack by turning her head or backing up you praise the dog and move forward. You keep repeating this until your dog realizes that she won’t get very far unless she moves at your speed.

Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Like many training techniques this one is great in theory. The thing that these so called trainers forget to tell you is that you have to have more patients than the dog. Oopy.

Moondoggie (my dog) is a cattle dog and border collie mix. A border collie is supposed to be one of the smartest breeds in the world. Smart does not equal easy to train. On the contrary. She knows she can outlast me. And therefore,  I follow my dog.

She is always drawn to the lake bed.

Here are a couple highlights from our walk.

A front row seat at the lake bed

Our first newt sighting.

And of course, the star of our walk

Stumble It!

Comments

[Kalyn]

I would take rain over snow any day! But it will certainly be great when we can dig in the dirt a little won't it! Moondoggie is looking very cute!