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One Year Old

I'm 2.5 years old

So yesterday Albert says to Yasi, "I think I just saw something." And Yasi goes, "what's that?" He says, "Tigerlily charged around the house, opened the door and went inside." Yasi says, "Uh oh! How'd she figure out to do that? I never taught her that!"

Then Albert and Yasi started saying how they were going to go to the store, and they went out. I thought, maybe if I really just act calm and nonchalant, they will bring me along. So I went into the dining room, pulled the latch to the garden door, and ran out to catch up with then. I started acting nonchalant, because usually Yasi does take me along, because I'm so helpful. I pick up the mail, for instance, when she drops it. She's an incredible klutz. How could she even think about going to the store without me?

"So you were right!" Yasi exclaimed, like she'd been standing there just waiting to see if I really could open the door! What, did she think Albert was making it up? Of course I can open the door! I've watched them open the door a million times! They think that's tricky? Uh, duh. Not.

Anyway, so now they are keeping their eye on the door . It's kind of funny, but I'm NOT going to open it in front of them unless they ask, and they're afraid once they ask me to open the door, the dog will be out of the bag so to speak. What's the big worry, the weather is nice, the garden's fenced it. All I want is to go out in the yard, though it would be nice also to go swimming and then Yasi says she's going to clip off my fur. I'm not sure that's the best idea in the world, but whatever, it's almost impossible to train these humans, but they are pretty darn cute anyway.

Dog trainers can be so controlling!

Oh lets see, Tigerlily is acting like she's got puppies, but they are really just little soft squeakies that she manages to steal and collect and then she cuddles with them in my bed. It's a pain because now when I throw her a squeaky, she doesn't want to give it to me, she has her own project she's working on! Yeah. An intact female is a pain.

Cerf

So her eyes test normal. Oh goody. I get to contend with her estrus cycles for at least another year. What a pain. But she's such a great dog!

We were doing a retrieving game. I was practicing directed send aways. First I sent her to a 3 inch round clear plastic target -- it was hard to see outside in the field, so I put white cheese on it. When she got there, I sent her to her frisbee which was also out in the field, in a different direction. We did that a few times, and I reinforced her at the frisbee, but had her leave it there, and go back to the target for another reinforcement, then back to the frisbee, and finally I told her she could "get it!" Since I didn't tell her to bring the frisbee to me or drop it, I thought she'd just run around with it wildly like she usually does, but she ran directly to the clear plastic target (I thought it was hard to find?) and plop, dropped it directly over the target! It was a dog joke!