Walking and Not Talking

~My shadow and Georgia’s leash taken by Liz Bedwell~

Today’s post will be a short one. We have our third training lesson tonight with C, so I’ll have a longer post in the coming days. You live for the long, detailed posts, right?!? I knew it! We’ve been taking walks nearly every day as long as the weather allows. I’ve even walked her when it’s been in the 30s, now that is love and devotion. I had two days off last week and walked her in the middle of the day so most everyone was at school or work. Our neighborhood was like a ghost town and I kind of liked it. No children trying to run me over with bikes and no random (sometimes crazy) people talking to me or asking me the same question for the 15^th time, for example, “Is it a boy or a girl?” Well ma’am she’s still a girl just like she was yesterday when you asked. My personal fav is when the man down the street always calls her Junior.  I’ve just given up telling him her name is actually Georgia.

Anyway, she has really improved on not pulling me when we go on our walks. I’m really impressed with her. She knows the limit to how tight she can pull the leash and generally stays there throughout our walk. I verbally praise her often when she’s doing a good job walking at the appropriate distance from me. Distractions are still an issue, but I’m pleased to report that three ducks were very near to us and she didn’t go nuts and start pulling to get to them. That’s impressive, to me anyway.

That’s about it…see short, huh? Just wanted to put a little something out there into the blogosphere. Have a good day everyone! Tomorrow is Friday!