After the first snowfall, we were out running as often as possible. While we prefer running at Punderson, we were unable to make it out this year due to the sudden onset of cancer and subsequent death less than three months later of Aubrey's grandmother. Instead we chose to stay close to her and we explored the mushing trails of Alum Creek State Park. The dogs ran well, including our newest addition Tundra, who is just now over a year old. While resenting the intrusion of a younger, handsome dog stealing her thunder, Shelby eventually settled into showing him the ropes and flaunted her superior knowledge. As it turns out, Tundra is an amazing puller and will make a great team dog and perhaps, with training, an awesome gee/haw leader. Jasmine, our foster, is still with us two years later and still waiting for her forever home. We removed her from lead position due to her regression and are now trying confidence building techniques to help her- whatever happened in her past is still present in her reaction to certain stimuluses. Given these reactions, sadly it made her unsuitable to maintain her lead position.
On a few future notes, we are preparing for our first agility competition in June and with any luck will receive a few Q's to start us on Sarge's agility career. Also, we have our training week scheduled for September for all the dogs to get out and start running again. Until then, we will be doing a lot of swimming and endurance hikes with the dogs to keep all of us in shape. Hopefully we can try to blog a little more often than once a season. Best wishes for your summer!
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