April 12

Three in a row.

It has been a long week. I didn't do training with Jedi on Wednesday because I had Evi over for the evening so I just let them play.  I did take the chicks outside for their first adventure.  They were very silly.  Our grass/weeds are tall enough that they hit their chest when they walk...it freaked the chicks out.  They'd take a step or two and then rush backwards.  They finally decided it was better to kind of hop around rather than walk.  They pecked at the grass a bit but mostly they were just completely bewildered.  It was rather cute.  Maybe I can take them out again this weekend.

Thursday, I rushed home from school to get to my PUC webinar.  That got out at 5:30 and then I had grading and planning to do so once again...no training.

Trying out the roost

Today, I didn't get home until 5 but I was determined to do some houseish stuff.  Got my seedlings planted outside and such and did a training session with Jedi.  The session went well.  He glanced towards the chicks box a couple of times and did get distracted once by a box I've put them in while I clean their box but he was easily redirected.  Cheese is a great training tool.  We worked on sit, down, stand, touch, back-up, sit/stay, down/stay, jump, paws up, off, spin, bow, shake, chill, roll-over, ladder and weave.  He is such a great and fun dog.  I'd have done more but my back started hurting from bending over so much for the training.  Gotta take care of my back.  Anyways it was fun and he did really well.  Only broke one sit/stay and that was returning to the house...not going after chicks.

By the way...the chicks now look pretty much like dinosaur birds.  Cute in an awkward way :)