Mad dog lady rained out of local park
0 Comments Published by Gussie on Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 11/22/2007 12:06:00 AM.
With a show on Saturday, I had planned to use my afternoon off today to take the agility kit to the park and get some weave and jump/turn practice with Jakey-Boy. But it has been persisting it down for nearly 24 hours! I’m not risking any of our six ankles jumping and weaving on soggy, boggy grass.
I used to feel self-conscious at the start of summer when I first took the weave poles to the park. (We don’t have the sort of back garden for setting up equipment. It’s too full of washing on the line and overgrown bushes. And we don’t do lawn). We get crowds of kids, other dog walkers, the wife and its world stopping to watch. At first I though Jake would be somehow miffed not to have his usual park experience (mooch. Sniff. Raise leg. Chase pals if any are there at the same time. Mooch. Sniff. Play training games or fetch with human companion. Mooch. Sniff.). But the other week I caught him pawing at the bag with the weave poles in. He wants to weave. (He wants the ham he gets for weaving.)
There is a small element of triumph and yes, showing off. When we got Jake he was the park yob – boisterous adolescent leggy hound from hell. So now when he ignores the teenage collie that tries to entice him out of the weave into a game of chase I’m chuffed to bits. With the extra practice once or twice a week Jake’s weaving is getting pretty good. He’s pretty reliable entering the weave from both sides, accurate going through, and we’re working on speed.
I can’t quite believe that I now carry a sack of poles to the park once or twice a week. Jake of course doesn’t think there’s anything odd in it at all. Of course the world will revolve round me! Why wouldn’t it?
I used to feel self-conscious at the start of summer when I first took the weave poles to the park. (We don’t have the sort of back garden for setting up equipment. It’s too full of washing on the line and overgrown bushes. And we don’t do lawn). We get crowds of kids, other dog walkers, the wife and its world stopping to watch. At first I though Jake would be somehow miffed not to have his usual park experience (mooch. Sniff. Raise leg. Chase pals if any are there at the same time. Mooch. Sniff. Play training games or fetch with human companion. Mooch. Sniff.). But the other week I caught him pawing at the bag with the weave poles in. He wants to weave. (He wants the ham he gets for weaving.)
There is a small element of triumph and yes, showing off. When we got Jake he was the park yob – boisterous adolescent leggy hound from hell. So now when he ignores the teenage collie that tries to entice him out of the weave into a game of chase I’m chuffed to bits. With the extra practice once or twice a week Jake’s weaving is getting pretty good. He’s pretty reliable entering the weave from both sides, accurate going through, and we’re working on speed.
I can’t quite believe that I now carry a sack of poles to the park once or twice a week. Jake of course doesn’t think there’s anything odd in it at all. Of course the world will revolve round me! Why wouldn’t it?
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