Forget Mushing (for now), let's RALLY!

Wow, it's really been a long time since I've posted anything on here.  That's what college does to you.  It makes you flippin' crazy!

Anyway, Lilly and I have thrown our hats in the Rally ring!  We will be showing for the first time on June 12th and 13th.  I'm so excited!  Well... excited and nervous.  I'm confident we can pull it off, I'm just unsure of how Lilly will react to such a strange place.  Usually, when we're in a busy place, she does a good job focusing on me to tell her what to do - hopefully that will work to our advantage.

Here's a quick video of us doing a 'run thru' at a local park (our free training grounds).  Speaking of our free training grounds, we really need to get our butts back out there and keep practicing!  The only thing I'm still worried about are her 'finishes'... and my inability to properly read signs and navigate a course - but that's a whole other issue.  And I don't want to talk about it.  :)

Notice Lilly's lovely right turns.  Well, leave it to me to ruin such a lovely thing.  I taught her "back", and now we have a lagging problem.  At the Oshkosh dog show I bought a really nice rabbit fur squeeky - I'm hoping that will help us get things back in order.

Lilly has pretty well caught on to the "stand", walk around - which is so awesome for her!

Enjoy this lovely weather!  I'm headed back to the dog show to watch!

~Lioness

Learning to Mush

Ok, so I'm a huge slacker.

Last month I went on a mushing trip in Bayfield, and had lots of fun and took lots of pictures.
I still haven't gotten around to posting about it.

I officially promise that before the summer school session starts I will post it.  Sorry, that's as good as it's gonna get.



Until then, here's some nice videos for you to enjoy.  Lilly is in the process of learning to mush.  She'll probably never truly be a useful member of a team because she doesn't really like to pull in front of me, but I figure at least she can learn how it all works.

Here's Lilly learning to pull weight.  I'm not all together sure how well she likes it thus far, but I do know that she LOVES cheese.