Graduation

On Wednesday night, Rose graduated from her 8 week obedience class at PetSmart. All of us, including Magda and Rose, enjoyed the class. As usual, obedience classes are more about training the owner than the pet, and I think Jennifer and I learned at least as much as Rose did. We'll just need to keep up with her training and not slack off.

Rose has become a much better behaved dog over the months. Partly that's due to the fact that she's losing some of her puppishness, but also because she now knows what's expected of her. This morning I took her on her walk just using her collar instead of the Halti and she hardly pulled at all. She's also turned into a great frisbee catcher and I got her a new Hover Craft for graduation.

Magda is as fascinated with the dogs as ever, but we've succesfully managed to direct most of her displays of affection at Rose and away from Homer. It's not uncommon for Magda to crawl to the dog and give her a kiss -- on her head or nose or butt -- and then to receive a tongue bath in return. Today in the kitchen, Rose was sprawled in Magda's way so Magda simply crawled over her. I don't think Rose even bothered to open one of her eyes.