"Walk it."

Even though it has been a furry long time since Mom and I became jillity drop-outs, I still remember how to do some of it.

Today, Mom and Daddy took me to a nice nature path at a place called Red Head. It was a furry nice long walk in the woods, but my most favouritist part was when there was a big fallen tree across the path! It was furry high but I wasn't scared at all! Mom said, "Walk it," and so I did -- three times!

I miss seeing the other doggies at jillity, but I'm glad I can still do some of it with Mom and Daddy whenever we go places.

Sunday = Funday!

Hello, furends! I want to tell you about the wunderdog time I had with Mom yesterday!

As most of you know, my favourite thing in the whole wide world is a good game of FETCH. If there is a tennis ball in motion, I am so there! And there! And THERE!

We usually play FETCH in the backyard, but it's been really muddy there lately. When Daddy brought me in the other night, I was a black and brown doggy! Well, I hate getting a B*TH, but I love FETCH more, so I guess it's okay.

Well, yesterday morning, after finding an easy geocache, Mom took me to FETCH HEAVEN!

Not far from our den is a big park, and in the summertime a lot of hoomins bring big moving dens and park them all in the same place. But after Canadogian Fangsgiving, they all go home, leaving a big, fenced-in, gravelly open space. So yesterday, Mom took me and the Chuck-It and the ball up there. And Mom threw the ball as far and as hard as she could, over and over and over again, just for me!

Happiness is having fetched the ball so far so many times that you

have to take a rest on the way back!

Once Mom saw that I was getting tired (Momnote: Hallelujah!), she decided we would then play a game of "Walk-it" with the picnic tables! Mom saw how a bunch of them were lined up in a row and so she got me to run up and down alla picnic tables in a row! (We stopped going to Jillity a year ago when Mom sprained her ankle, but of course I 'membered what "walk-it" means! I am a Border Collie mystery mix, after all!)


When I got home again, I was so tired that I went back to bed with Daddy and went right to sleeps!

Mom and I had so much fun up at the No-Moving-Dens-Now Park yesterday that we're going to try to go again soon. Right now, though, we're gonna go take a nap! (wagwagwag)

A Momentimous Occasion

Tonight, Mom and I graduated from the Intro to Agility class at ARFF.

We did our very first full course, a Jumpers course, and we finished all 18 elements in about a minute and twenty-three seconds. I don't know why Mom was in such a rush when there was so much yummy horse poop to smell!

I am very proud of Mom because she tried really hard to keep up with me, but towards the end, her ass-maw started acting up (and she'd furgotten to bring her puffer with her to use beforehand).

Daddy made a video fur posterior's sake. Enjoy!

A Wonderdog Week!

Sorry it has been a little while since I updated everydoggy. It has been a wonderdog week, though!

Last Saturday, Mom put me in the car and we drove west. At first, I thought we were going to my old PLV (Pretty Lady Vet), but we drove past it and then stopped at Sheldon's Point Park. There we met Scouter-Bill and we went geocaching! Mom had always wanted to try that, so when Scouter-Bill said he was going, Mom said she wanted to go too. And since it was an outdoorsy thing, she decided to bring me along! We were out walking for about three hours and we really had fun!

Since then, Mom and I have gone geocaching by ourselves a few times (even this morning in the rain!) and although she gets a little frustrated when I want to look at something else while she's looking in the bushes, we have fun together!

On Chewsday, Daddy came home from work early and took me for a walk in the woods up near the university. (When Mom got home, she asked me if I found the geocaches up that way, but I had to tell her no. My GPS -- the Good Piper Sniffer -- only works for food!)

We had a really good time walking. I love spending time with my daddy in the woods. I love to run and check things out as much as possible.

Then on Thursday, we had Jillity! We couldn't go last week because my foot was hurt and Mom had a migraine, so Mom was worried we'd be a little bit behind. But considering I hadn't even seen the dogwalk before, and that the A-frame was flat on the ground last time I saw it, we did really well!

We have to work on our homework this week, too. Mom has taught me to "touch", but now we have to work on "target". (None of the doggies in my group last week could do it, so I didn't feel quite so bad.)

My very favourite pieces of equipment, though, are the chute and the tunnel. Mom was a little worried that I'd be afraid of the chute, since I couldn't see where I was going, but Daddy had a good point: I sleep under the covers! I don't poking my way forward until I find my way out.

Daddy tried to take some video of me doing Jillity but the camera didn't want to cooperate, and then all the dust got in the way. Here is a video capture of me going over the A-frame so you can see I really did do it! And here is the video (Daddy put it on YouTube).





Oh, and before I furget -- fangu for all the good thoughts and ritchewals for healing my foot. I'm all done the Annie-Buy-Oddics, and I see the new PLV (Pretty Lady Vet) on Monday for the "all-bedder-now". (Mom says I'm also going to get shot. Or something like that.)

Jillity!

Ohhhh, what fun we had tonight!

Mom and Dad and I got in the car and went for a drive out to a big place with GIANT dogs with hooves. There were lots of other doggies there, too, including some I knew from Oh Be Dense and my furends Dara and Charlie from the Bark Park. But I wasn't allowed to play with any of them. I was only allowed to play with Mom.

But there were some REALLY cool big toys for us to play with, like ladders and jumps and tunnels and tires ...

First we did the chute, and then the tunnel. I was a bit afraid at first, but once Mom showed me it was okay (and waved my red tuggy bone at me), then I went through. The tunnel was sneaky and kept get longer each time, but Mom was always there cheering me on, so I was a brave doggy and ran through anyway.

The tire was probably one of the easiest ones for me to do. After the tunnel, it was a piece of cake!

Dad took some pictures of me at all of the stations, but it was dark and dusty in the training stable, so a lot of the pictures didn't turn out so well. (They were too dark without the flash, and with the flash on, the flash lit up all the dust.)

I love how they chose our groups, and that they put me with the other herding doggies (The Aussies and Border Collies group ruled!). Chase and I are probably going to be buddies, like his mom said, and I liked the dog in front of me in line too.

Mom and I really had a good time tonight. I think that Dad is worried that the dust in the stable is going to make Mom sick (she has ass-maw), but Mom doesn't really care. She says she and I are going to have a lot of fun at this.

Tonight she told me she was really proud of me for trusting her and trying all of the scary new things even though I was nervous.

I can't wait to go back next week! I love Jillity!