Rally-o home version
I had some one-on-one time with Quanda today and we used it to train some rally-o in front of the house. Once again Quanda amazed me… We’re now training without visible threats! Okay, we only have little disturbances when training at home, but it’s great progress.
The first official rally obedience competition at the local dog club will be in August. Let’s hope we’ll be able to enter that competition…
Hoglandspark
Lukas trying out the swing at Hoglandspark.
Picture time
Lukas got to test the pedal tractor at granngården today. It’s huge! I guess Lukas has to keep driving his Bobby Car just a while longer…
Obedience training
During the past week I got an invitation to join a dog training group at the local club. I’ve been a member since Quanda attended her first puppy training course, but we hadn’t been there for several years since we weren’t good enough… Now it seems like a few members started to organize activities for us that don’t aim for the Swedish Championship competition.
So this morning the two of us went to the obedience training at the club. It felt like the session contained a little of everything: contact exercises, competitive obedience, rally obedience, recall and even handling. Quanda did a marvelous job and I was able to train her off leash again! She seems to enjoy this one-on-one time as well as I do.
I really had great fun training Quanda today and I’m already looking forward to next Sunday’s rally obedience. Once again: I’m so proud 
Wheelbarrow
Lukas trying to move daddies wheelbarrow.
More pictures can be found in the gallery.
Rally obedience
Tonight Quanda and I start training rally obedience again and she did a great job!
The last time the two of us trained together with other dogs was during the rally course we took in the fall of 2009. During simulair situtations in the past I’ve had a hard time motivating Quanda as she basically shows no interest in me or in the dog treats I’m offering. So I didn’t have high expectations for today.
Even though Quanda started looking around and sniffing the ground as soon as we came in, I did succeed to motivate her. She was actually doing such a good job that we were able to train off leash for some time!
I’m so proud
Lukas’ cupcakes
Lukas has baked his first cupcakes! He got to help with everything: the shopping, the mixing and of course… the tasting
It was a totally new way of baking for me, not being able to follow the recipe. There’s now way of knowing how much of the ingredients ended up in the batter… It’s going to be interesting to taste the result later today.
More pictures can be found in the gallery.
So tiered…
Today Lukas was to tiered to eat dinner with us and started crying as soon as we put him in his chair. So instead he got to sit on the sofa to watch Emil i Lönneberga. He became a little to quite thou…
Buttered sandwich
Lukas’ first try in buttering his own sandwich! It started promising, but it ended with Lukas eating the butter directly from the butter knife…