Look How Far We've Come

Beckett will be 6 Years old next Saturday. Sometimes I look at him and see the crazy puppy he must have been and sometimes I see the old man I hope he will become.  I often think how strange it is that our retired hounds all had a whole other life before they met us when I really can't even remember my life without them in it. 

Beckett, you can still pick'em up and lay'em down with the best of them!

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When Is Summer Going to Arrive?

Veil and Beckett at the campground last summer...Hopefully we will get to go soon, but we will need to add another x-pen to make room for Maddy!

Maddy meets a "Friend"

Maddy spied this concrete "dog" at my in-laws.  She wasn't too sure if it was friend or foe.





I don't know what she thought was wrong with "him", but she seemed quite concerned.

Hello, Complaint Department?

Hello, Veil here - I have taken over the keyboard thingy to lodge a complaint...

I take offence at the suggestion made by Mama that Maddy may be smarter than me.  I was here first and I had my two humans almost trained perfectly before the arrival of my two grey siblings.  If I could just teach Beckett and Maddy of the power of the "stare in the face" til you get what you want...

We’re participating in this Saturday’s Pet Blog Hop, hosted by Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers and Confessions of the Plume.  If you’d like to participate, please follow the rules and follow your three hosts, add your blog to the Linky and copy and paste the html code into your html editor.  Thanks again to our hosts for putting on the hop!

I Spy.

A quiet afternoon on the deck...

Wait a minute, Maddy said "I think we have a visitor".

Let me get a closer look...Yep, we do!

Finally!! Today was a beautiful day... 
We got out for a nice walk, no black flies or rain for a change.  Maddy is doing great with the clicker training. 

Maddy practicing her sit.

Sorry about the poor video quality.  Hard to hold the clicker, leash treats and camera at the same time.

Beckett and Veil are starting to understand that the "click" means something but are behind Maddy on this.  Maybe it's because she had the 10 week prison training course.  I don't know if they used clickers there or not,  but she just seems to pick up on things faster.

Beckett out for a stroll.

Collars and Clickers

After watching some great instructional videos at Never Say Never Greyhounds on clicker training, I think I finally have a better understanding of what the outcome of it all is supposed to be.  I have done hand targeting with my guys but all I seemed to end up with was a wet nose being shoved in my hand all the time so I'm assuming I missed a step some where. :) So today I bought a clicker.  Wish me luck! I also decided that summer has to come sometime, so I should make Maddy a new summery collar --

I'm thinking I was more excited by it than she was.