Showing posts with label doggy door. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doggy door. Show all posts

Catching Up

cabana standing and look at the camera, she is in front of a huge tree trunk with interesting and gnarly textureThursdays are usually quiet at the park because that's the day they cut the grass, although we can avoid the mower fairly easily because the field is so big. For whatever reasons, our usual dog park friends were absent today, but I seized the opportunity to have a fall photo shoot. Here are a few of the better shots I took.

cabana sitting on the grass with leaves scattered all around the groundI've been a bad blogger and bad blog reader lately. Things were crazy busy leading up to Thanksgiving. Life has calmed down now, but I've been battling a long-lasting cough/cold thing. I didn't feel sick enough to stay in bed (darn), but just sort of run down and pestered by inconvenient symptoms. Right now, I am on a constant diet of cough drops, and I have almost no voice. It's a good thing that Cabana's recall is reliable now, because I can barely croak out her name.

cabana climbing to the top of a big mound of tan bark covered with leavesAfter several weeks, Cabana is finally using the doggy door on her own!! Yippee! Actually, I think the problem was ME, not Cabana. Isn't that usually the case?! I couldn't break my own habit of taking her out. I was so overly routinized, rarely waiting for Cabana to tell me she needed to go. The answer was for me to be relaxed enough to trust that Cabana would go out when she needed to.

cabana standing on green park field, looking off to the side, trees and hillsides make a lovely backdrop in the distanceWith the colder weather, Cabana has been allowed to sleep on our bed at night. Who would have thunk it would ever come to this in our house? We've sunk another level (or perhaps elevated, depending on your perspective). She loves it and has been really good about not rummaging around or flopping her ears noisily in the wee hours.

I hope to catch up on everyone's blogs soon. Thank you for continuing to visit mine, even if sporadically!!

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K-9 Carnival

Today, Cabana and I went to a K-9 Carnival, where we met up with blog pals Sierra Rose and Sammie & Avalon. There were wading pools, an obstacle course, raffle prizes, a barbecue, and a Q&A session with Trish King, the director of Behavior & Training at the Marin Humane Society.

roped off area in the grass where golden retriever Samantha and her handler are preparing to demonstrate heelingThey also had an obedience demonstration, starring Sammie, who did a perfect job. Woo hoo, way to go, Sammie! I learned a lot just by watching.

There were dogs of many different breeds, shapes and sizes....
lots of human legs with dogs around them, including border collie, a westie and a black dog of some sort
a fawn colored greyhound dog
In a previous Tuesday Topic, I shared about Cabana being fearful at new parks. Today, she wasn't quite as playful as she is at our usual park, but she did just fine. I'm sure it helped that she knew Sierra Rose and Sammie from previous play dates. But she played with lots of other dogs, too.

cabana standing inside a blue blow-up swimming pool with a silvery weimaraner on the outside of the pool

C'mon, Mr. Silver, I'll share the pool with you.


cabana looking at a bernese mountain dog puppy
Hey, you look just like my friend Bayla!


But Cabana's favorite activity was playing chase with Sierra Rose and Avalon.
yellow agility tunnel in background with golden retriever Sierra Rose standing next to cabana with a stuffed duck toy in her mouth
sierra with duck toy being chased by cabana and golden retriever puppy avalon, all running to the left
sierra rose with duck toy being chased by just cabana, running to the right
close up of cabana standing by herself with duck toy

Thanks to everyone who commented on my Tuesday Topic about doggy doors last week. I have ordered one, and it should arrive next week. Based on the hesitations of many commenters, after the initial few weeks of Cabana getting used to using the door, I think I will limit its use somewhat to when I need to be gone for a long period of time. That's my thinking at the moment, but I reserve the right to change my mind!

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