Training Log, 13Jan08
I’ve got the sniffles. It’s been an all weekend kind of thing, and staying up for KM’s roast apple pork shoulder on Saturday night didn’t really help any. I feel dehydrated, my nose is running like a faucet, my lymph nodes are all swollen up, and the rest of me is just plain blah.
We didn’t do much this weekend, but tonight was Eo’s first walk since the hip surgery. It’s cold out, and I waited until an hour or two after her dinner to make VERY sure that the Tramadol had taken effect before we went outside. I walked Henry around the block to get his wigglies out, and then we grabbed Eo and I walked her just holding her collar to make sure she was putting weight on the back legs. We only got down one door and then across the street and down three before she started letting out a little “peep” with each step, so we turned right around and went in — but it’s a start. We’ll slowly start increasing the distance a little bit each day.
Henry’s coming along really well, but it’s so easy to confuse him if I don’t have the right idea in my head. I can tell him to “get close”, but if I’m not leaning back, he doesn’t get close enough to get the treat and has to scoot forward on his butt.
To try and make training more of a “habit”, I’ve scattered pouches of fruitables around the house, and we’ll dive into random training sessions all of a sudden. I also am using Zuke’s Minis, lunch meat, and other stuff for longer training sessions. I’ll try to do one longer session a day where we try hard to make doing something ten times a whole lot of fun, and then we’ll do random “checks” using the fruitable caches around the rest of the house.