Puppyless

Took a little roadtrip to Eastern Oregon today to meet up with Aja’s new owner. Aja is now settling in at her new home in Idaho with some new border collie siblings. So far, so good. She seemed to really like her new people and looks really happy with the new dogs. David decided not to keep her, and it happened that Lexi was looking for a new puppy for agility, a great opportunity for a performance home for Aja. So I think it worked out for everyone, looking forward to watching her grow, I think she’s going to make a really fun agility dog.

Aja came back into our household without a hitch, Bright still just loves her, cracks me up. Aja is a fun girl, the house is much quieter without her. Of course, she always had a lot to say. Really enjoyed having her here, would have been fun to have a few more months to play with her, but we had a good time. It was good for Aja to get into the city and work through a lot of her stranger danger issues with David, so that was nice too. At this point Aja totally has that London-esque quality of making herself at home wherever she goes. I had no worries sending her off with Lexi, she wasn’t at all upset by it. Not that she doesn’t like me, but she doesn’t NEED me. I appreciate that quality now, though it was hard with London, it’s different feel to the relationship.

So, yeah, border collies, I really do like them, and they’re very easy to live with and integrate into the household – and so much fun. In a few years they are at the top of the list. Though while I haven’t been drawn to either border-staffies or border-whippets, I saw a border/staffy x whippet cross that really spoke to me! We shall see, in the meantime we are going to enjoy playing with everyone else’s puppies and enjoy my three very easy dogs.

As for my crew, we really haven’t been doing anything this week. Bright was a little off last week, so we were taking it easy, and she stayed home from hiking. With only my boys and Tammy’s boys it was so low-key. Funny how girls are always the troublemakers. I’d say my next dog is going to be a boy, but Bright so loved Aja, now I wonder.

Bright has been looking fine this week, just been working on contact boards and such, focusing on hopefully getting her nice stopped dogwalk back before nationals. But our time is running out, 2 weeks from now! Looking forward to a fun road trip with my best girl and some really fun people.

The boys have continued with their herding here and there. Heather MAY be getting a bit better with her inside flank commands. Navarre was back to being extra pushy the last time we practiced, but our sheep are crazy hard to work with it. They’re on a mission to take us out. They almost succeeded with Heidi, she was airborn. Herding … not as much fun as agility, and more dangerous. And much dirtier. We’re trying to get some babydoll sheep to replace our crotchety old murderous ladies. But it will be a while.

Mostly just focused on nationals, we’ll take a little break from agility after that. Spring is here in Oregon and I love it so much! Which makes me dread summer already, but trying to just enjoy today and let the bugs, humidity and sun wait for a few months.

Marvin continues to be totally awesome. Well, unless you want to eat something – you have to literally lock him away. And he’ll eat ANYTHING. Little pudgepot. Just love that kitten, he’s been so much fun and the maine coons adore him – he’s perfect. I did finally just bite the bullet and put all the cats on antibiotics. And they all got better. Viral sickness my ass.

Dragon is now on CBD oil, I can’t say it’s necessarily doing anything, we’re not quite at 2 weeks of this yet. He’s not walking around in a stoned haze anyway. Obviously starting at a lower dose though. He MAY be feeling happier, or maybe he just feels better since the antibiotics. Well, we have a whole bottle, we’ll stick with it.

Herding and agility this weekend, trial and a seminar next weekend, then it’s off to nationals. Dogs sure are fun to play with!