And this is why King's trainer is totally my favorite person right now!
They updated paperwork even with the holiday. Phase 5 is when he's really starting to make decisions and even gets to do a few blindfold walks.
Keep going buddy and we will see you soon!!
I think everytime I have a dog in training over the holidays, I remember why I don't like having a dog in training over the holidays.
Today King was hanging out in phase 3 again, which is fine, but I realized he will probably be stuck there for the next few weeks until after Thanksgiving. Then comes the Christmas holidays and it seems like they gets stuck in a black hole again.
I guess as long as he's there, no news is good news...
Keep going King!
This morning Kingaroo showed up in phase 3! That's exciting... I'm still crossing my fingers for him.
He gets to take his preliminary test this week with an instructor under blindfold. Reading about that in the phase descriptions reminded me of the workshop we just went to in Colorado a few days ago. We watched a few videos of dogs in training and how they train them... I thought of King while we were watching them. They used quite a few yellow labs about his color in the videos- adding to me missing him.
Just keep up this rate of training and I'll see you soon, Kingaroo. :)
Ving ended up hanging around an extra week. We found him a raiser in Utah and I'm sure he will do so well with her but she couldn't take him until today...
So today is farewell to the Lion Ving.
It will be nice to be down to one dog... and relax a little when I can't see a yellow dog. (If I can't see him- he's up to something.) We will be puppysitting over the winter- but I promised Rick we can at least have the next 3 weeks off. We will have black lab, Volt over Thansgiving. Stay tuned...
