St. Patrick's Day Meeting

Here's a photo of our local puppy raising group. What a fantastic and fabulous ensemble of humans and canines! (Cabana is to the far right with my husband.) Last night, we met at an outlet mall and had a bit of a hodge podge of St. Patrick's Day/Easter festivities. We got plastic Easter eggs with notes inside, kind of like a fortune cookie (can we throw some Chinese New Year into the holiday mix, too?). The notes took us to different stations, where we would have our puppies perform a certain behaviors.

Cabana did great on her sit-stay-come egg. She had to stay for a count of 25, which is a long time. I tried not to count too fast--don't want to go too easy on her! She sat like a statue, A+!

Unfortunately, Cabana didn't do so well with properly greeting another dog. She never even got to greet the other dog because her behavior leading up to it was horrific. But not surprising, based on yesterday's post regarding her big dog distraction issues!

And there's my segue. I enjoyed reading everyone's comments from my Tuesday Topic post--thanks for your input. As a first time raiser with almost zero dog experience of any kind, I can't tell you how helpful it is to get others' feedback. I was very grateful for the reminders of how young Cabana is (thanks, Lisa and Megan!). Again, since I have no other experiences for comparison, it's good to know that she's going to get it eventually (fingers crossed), and that her behavior falls in the spectrum of normalcy.

I will definitely keep working on getting Cabana to focus on me as people go by. By summertime, when people will be out walking by the dozens, maybe I'll even be able to enjoy seeing other folks and their dogs!

Here's the handsome Accord in his Irish hat (above). He looks thrilled to be wearing it, doesn't he?

And now it's Hamlin's turn. Also thrilled.

And finally, the fashion plate herself, Miss Cabana!