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deja vu

Just in case you wondered...red wine is amazing with peanut butter and chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Woot!  I LOVE this pic of Mooie.  At first it made me cry because you can see the gray around his muzzle and eyes that never used to be there, and his eye is a little gooey and he kinda looks sad.  But that is Mooie.  If you know Mooie then this picture embodies him.  I am glad I met Mooie, he wasn't my first dog, Dukie was, but Mooie counts more than Dukie.  Mooie taught me about me.  And Mooie taught me about agility and team work and barking and biting and esterizing.  Not even Pickle taught me about esterizing, although he did teach me about barking and he will bite me again tomorrow.  Mooie sleeps on my pillow every night.  I love him.  I am glad that I met all the dogs that have been in my life.  They are all different and cool in their own way.  Tonight I got to work with Lizzie who is so much like Hunda it is scary, but if it weren't for Lizzie I wouldn't be where I am with Hunda.  And the other Lizzie who taught me how to down.  And Baylin (sp?), who reminds me of Moose.  And Fly, who reminds me of Moose.  And Pokey, who loves life more than life itself.  And Rudy, who loves rocks more than life itself.  And Solar Polar Molar who just loves life.  And dogs like Yankee who run faster than you can imagine.  And Bree, the frisbee whore.    And JC, who loves agility.  And Jesse, who likes to bark before he runs.  And Boo, who taught me about Pyr Sheps.  And Mesa, who loves the crowd cheering.  And Milou, obsessed with eggs!  And Trevor, who likes his toy.  And Brew, who is deaf and partially blind and still the coolest agility dog EVER.  And Rio, who loves to snuggle.  And Wrinkles who inspired Helen to be who she is.  And Crash, who I will never forget.  And Bug and Divot, who are very far away.  And Tommy, who is more like Pickle than Pickle is.  And Hunda, who has taught me to do.

I went to the gym yesterday for the first time in a month.  I had deja vu so bad I pretty much vomited in my mouth and had to swallow it.  No matter where you go, people are the same.  No matter where you go, there everyone is.  Where am I?  Pink cowboy boots. 

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playing a game of tug

moose got explored by dora

I got to my cousins safe and sound. Took the back roads along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Gotta say, CA is nothing like AZ. Too many things grow here for my liking. You can't see any geology. But I did see a few road cuts with amazing schist and banded gneiss. I also saw a lot of trees. Boring. But it was a cool drive and places to go back and visit are: Sonora and Placerville. I drove by the site of one of Mark Twain's cabins. I'm sitting here eating carmel corn that I found along my drive. Yum! Great midnight snack.
Poor Moose laid down to take a nap and Avery, my cousins 2 year old daughter, decorated him with Dora stickers. Ha ha ha. You can see how much he loves it. But he is really good with her, sits to be petted. Hunda met her also and was his normal exuberant self. Go Hunda Go!! I'm here until the weekend. We are going to see a movie tomorrow and to a baseball game on Friday. Then I'm off to the coast. My FAV! And Liz is waiting for me in Coos Bay and I know we are going to have a blast even if there are no salmon.
Hunda's CU stuff is going well. He is responding really well to the Give Me a Break game. Somtimes I let him win the toy and he still runs off but I'm hoping this will either turn into a game or extinguish itself. If I win the toy he immediatley offers his default behavior which is a sit and looking at me. I have FULL eye contact here! It is amazing and wonderful and he really likes it. He is starting to offer me that behavior for everything now, going in and out of doors, going to sniff, etc. You might think I'm a real dumb ass for coming up with this all of a sudden but I was using a hand touch as the gateway to Hunda's wants and it just got him more stirred up. So the sit with eye contact helps to center us and we can move forward from there. Don't laugh. You can never truly appreciate dog training and life until you have a Hundaloo!

Botfly removal 101

botfly

#1- Gag and almost barf when you realize the 'scab' you just picked on your dog has something living in it.

#2- Watch your boyfriend gag and almost barf.

#3- Be happy that at least you know what the f that thing is since you are obsessed with gross things like worms, maggots and botflies.

#4- Spray tons of antiseptic and anisthetic on the f-er

#5- Hold the hole open and grab it as it comes up for air.

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