The Well Behaved Dingo

Scherzo spent an hour off leash up at MSU today, opening doors with handicapped buttons, running along walls, eating duck poop (but not ducks!), and then, just after this picture, chasing a rabbit.

Now if only I could remember the name of it….

We went to daily lake, it was pretty and deserted save for some windsurfers.

The Dingo and I were at the turd (a free artificial climbing boulder off the Galligator trail) today waiting for Sarroar to come back from work and doing some bouldering when she jumped three feet into the air from a down and chomped a hornet. The dog is allergic to hornet and bee stings, [...]

We’ve reached a stage in the Dingo’s training where we’ve decided it will be easier to move forward if we extinct her reactions to certain scenarios. The dog has got pretty chill, or zen as they call it on the training levels, but there are a few key things that still get her amped up.

Today I was witness to a moment of hilarity: a guy was pulling his baby bike trailer through the library parking lot when he clipped the curb and flipped the trailer on its side. Ten feet later he stopped, jumped off, flipped it back up. His kid seemed unphased but his wife pulled up and [...]

We were in PetSmart today and had a golden retriever run into us and then proceed to freak out on Scherzo. It’s owner was twenty feet away at the other end of the dog’s flexi leash, happily squeeking toys at the indifferent baby in her stroller. We asked her to reel in her dog and [...]

I was sitting in the van at the grocery store today waiting for Sarroar to come back when a frumpy woman came out pushing a cart full of groceries. I’m not especially interested in watching people put their groceries away but this lady looked a bit haggard and I had nothing else to do while [...]

Scherzo continues to learn the ways of calm and attention in indoor settings. Today we did a drive-by-training at The Country Bookshelf, a bookstore downtown that is dog friendly. She did awesome, stopping as I stopped, watching where I went when the aisle split up. Then we came to a set of stairs in [...]