Long time no write

Well, things have been good with KD. I went out of town for a week of vacation from 6/18 to 6/25 and so picked up KD on the 26th. She was very glad to see me and happy to be home. She has been doing better on some of our walks. She found a dead bird again on Friday but a quick correction on the leash and she left it. Have been working a lot and she has been a bit bored, but hasn't gotten into any mischief. I had a hard time getting up this morning. KD was stirring around 5ish so I went to let her out. She likes to get petted first thing in the morning and goes and sits on the quilt by the back door after some petting and belly rubbing, she went out for a few minutes and then I went back to bed. Finally got up about 8 and took her for a short run. Man I have let myself get out of shape. We plodded along the the 1.5 miles and it was not difficult, but just felt like I was dragging myself along. Hopefully I can get motivated to start doing it regularly and things will look up.

Update on Adrien

Got a note yesterday letting me know that Adrien has been cleared for rehab and that her new family has let her take a tour of the house including going upstairs. She seems to be settling in quite nicely.

Back to the usual

Well, having KD back for 2 weeks now and things are like nothing has changed. I did give her a few corrections with the leash the other day when she picked up a dead bird while we were out for a walk and she dropped it. I have been able to get her to leave the dead stuff alone, so that is good. We go out for a walk or walk/run early in the morning and then she hangs out and she hangs out all day (laying on the couches when I am not looking) waiting for me to get back. If I leave the house for an errand, she lays in the front doorway looking out the thin window next to the door. She is a good little companion and very loyal. She is back to digging some holes near the house to bury her rawhides. I have the big dog sand/pebble box. I need to get in the habit of burying treats there for her to find so that she will do it also. She hasn't dug any big holes, just pulled back a bit of grass right next to the downspout and moved some rocks around at the base of the trees.

A short run

I got out the running belt and leash this morning and KD knew exactly what it is. I put it on her and we went out and she didn't pull ahead at all. I started to run a nice slow pace and she followed behind without trying to make many stops. We only went 1.5 miles to get back into the groove, but it went great. She loves to go out.

Adrien update

Got an update on Adrien, she is doing really well.

Hair, Hair, Hair

I had forgotten that petting KD yielded so much hair. I need to swiffer some I think. I brushed her last night and I didn't remember that she really like being brushed. She sat there and let me brush her for a while and laid across my lap as I brushed her. She doesn't seem eager to go outside first thing in the morning, but rather would like me to sit with her and give her some petting/massage. She is rather funny. I got an old fashioned push mower with no motor that I have been using so I took her out back to hang out and she was done hanging with me so I dragged it out and cut. I figure no real concern about her getting injured. She ran around and barked at it/me. I stopped and told her to come over and she came close but then was hesitant and just barked at it and ran away.

Gosh, slow day at Petco, go figure

Well, Sat was a 5th Saturday and I had no volunteers, so KD and I packed up and went to Petco Great Hills. The location has more foot traffic than the Lakeline location but the cat people have the front window and I didn't feel like sitting in the front arch with the heat, so we took up our location in the back of the store by the dog food. We had a bit of foot traffic, but zero donations. We sent a few people to the shelter to see the dogs.

She is starting to get re-used to being at home. We walked a few of the old routes and she remembered no problems.