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Sophy's highlights

New toy day

Sophy got a purple dinosaur today but that wasn't the coolest part. It has a squeaker which is the first time she has ever gotten a toy with a squeaker. Sophy is very gentle with smaller animals and when that thing squeaked, she dropped it an ducked, sniffing it carefully to check the damage. Again reassured it was not alive, she chomped again.

SQUEAK! She dropped it.


She's now in a battle with herself over her desire to chew the toy and her desire to avoid hurting it! hahaha. I am a mean mommy.

Sophy's getting her game on

Welp, Sophy has spent some great times in Rally and then in Open class, but all the while she betrayed her first love which is Agility. We signed her back up for it, jeez, if she loves it that much, she deserves to do it!

She's really good at obedience but you can tell it bores her a little. When she gets to do jumps she goes completely nuts. She's six years old and lean and fit, so we're going back in! She'll be so excited, I haven't told her yet.

To get her (and me) back in running shape, we've been taking the whole family out (Randy and Dante too) walking 3+ miles a day. After the first day she was sore, but she limbered up quickly after a day of rest and has no problem with it now. She's got to lose maybe 3 pounds for safer running and jumping, but that's about it.

Since she's been in Beginning, Intermediate, and Open, I have enrolled her in Open again. We don't compete and aren't experts by any means, so this is a good fit for us. But we'll miss class with Jill Perry, dog trainer extraordinaire! There just isn't enough time in the day.

Randy will apprentice with Jill in her Jr. Handlers class, which is exciting for him (and us! we are proud!). It's great to see him doing so much in his life.

Two ribbons in one weekend! Exciting!

Husband Randy decided to take matters into his own hands, and, having given up on me taking Sophy to an obedience trial, he did so himself. Two trials in, she had two "legs" of her first title. She's signed up to go again next weekend and if she gets another leg, she'll have a CD title. We're very proud.

Dante was also in the trial. He was....pretty. But he didn't qualify. (Is barking at the judge bad?)