Hiking, classes, and sport practice

You can tell that she'd already had a good roll in the dew-soaked grass.

Quenya loves her off-leash hikes. She's the only one of the pupcrew I completely* trust to hike off-leash. Victoria won't wander far, but she has the typical Pug attitude of "Hey, I love you, but that doesn't mean I gotta listen." If I'm in an area I've been to before and it's far removed from traffic dangers I'll let Tory off leash, but that's it. She's a work-in-progress though, and improving every day! Most especially in the last couple weeks I've noticed Skipper is really getting a solid recall...but I probably won't work him off-leash outside of a fenced area for several more months. He's an adolescent, and a terrier, and frankly I don't trust him. But we are moving up to long-line work in public, and we have a trip planned to the park later on this week to do some distance stay/recall work. Stay tuned for that update!

Disc-wise Skipper has been flopping all over the place. He chases the disc and takes off with it. He chases the disc half-way then wanders off to smell something. He chases the disc, smells it, and runs back to me--leaving the disc there. I'm hoping it's just a phase, not a sign of waning interest. On the plus side, we've been doing some barn-hunt type games at home and he is loving it. I can't wait until we go to our first barn hunt event--hopefully later this year!

Quenya starts a trick dog class this coming Thursday that runs for five weeks, so we're really looking forward to that. She already knows a lot of tricks but we both enjoy being social so I know we'll benefit from the environment, and at the end we're applying for her novice trick dog title.

*Keeping in mind that dogs can always be unpredictable and owners need to be aware and ready for any situation.