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She's a fantastic trainer with both dogs and people and works a lot with reactive and fearful dogs. I've got to sort out a few things in my life and then I'll be looking into the Karen Pryor academy.
Really happy for you, they'll be lucky to have you on the team! It is very exciting! Things seem to be falling into place for me recently!
) She also wagged her tail non stop. We had ended up parked aways away from the starting line. The event was held at a shopping mall. Where I came into the Mall all of the parking lots were blocked off. So I parked across the street and then got to walk around a couple of corners of the mall before locating the event. 
Unfortunately OH is still recovering from a fall he took while getting ready to walk the dogs one day several weeks ago, so I'm on my own on this one. That means I will often be walking the dogs separately, which means generally shorter walks for each dog. I have set my goal at 150 miles for both dogs combined. I set my scavenger hunt goal at 50 items per dog. I was aiming for one find per walk for each dog. Sirius is getting the idea to sit. Sky is still looking at me like I am crazy and we are wasting time standing here when we should be walking. 
Previously I posted about how she has cataracts in her eyes, and how she's been having difficulty getting up and down the porch steps (the only way in or out of the house). I mentioned how we bought her a special ramp for those porch steps, and how she refused to use it. It's been hard. She's been having more accidents in the house, by the back door, because going down the porch steps is scary, but so is the ramp. I started to worry about winter coming, and the steps being icy, and would we have to euthanize her, but what about trying to give her a proper burial in the winter when the ground is frozen.... I will have to make sure the ramp and the steps are shoveled and salted all winter, but now I know Annie can get out into the yard to go potty, and that is major. She has brought me so much joy! I know she can't live forever, but I want her to go on HER TERMS, not because she can't make it down the porch steps to relieve herself. ), Jasper is loving it. He's been quite excited by the beaches, though only once had a naughty jumpy-up moment. There's lots of dogs everywhere (many Cornwall beaches only permit dogs from 1 October so they're all enjoying their freedom) but he hasn't grumped at any so far, or got OTT. OK, he was a little full-on with a 3-year-old deerhound we met today - apparently the deerhound also tends to be full-on, but I suspect the deerhound was cowed by finding a dog who could run faster than him We got him out and let him have a little walk around, and found that one of the bottles had broken. It must have been faulty, because OH is always very careful about packing the boot. I wonder if it was the sound of breaking, or a sudden smell of beer that upset Jasper so much? It did seem quite an extreme reaction to a small sound, even for him.
