Yard

So Alpha and Beta went out to look at a yard on Saturday. They've been doing that a lot. This was the first time I got to come along (since we were going to play class right afterwards). I had to spend a little bit of boring time in the car, but then I got to go explore the yard. There were a lot of sticks, probably because there were a lot of trees. I tried to get out under the fence at one point, because there was a hole underneath and I could just fit, but Beta had the leash on and wouldn't let me explore over there.

Then, when we got back from play class, Alpha and Beta said that the yard would be ours! We're totally going to be moving to a yard of our very own. There's not enough fence, but we'll have to wait until spring to do that. And... Beta says that once we get the new yard and fence, I'll be getting a new packmate to hang around with! That should be fun. Alpha doesn't play Noms at all, and Beta's kind of a wimp... I barely bite down at all on her hand and she complains.

We went on a really long walk on Sunday (like, two whole hours)! We got to hang out with all the pack-walk people (Alphie wasn't there, though). I tried really hard to walk nicely, and even managed to go pretty far without pulling, but of course all the new smells kind of got the better of me and Beta had to keep slowing me down with the leash. She noticed when I was walking good, though. No treats, but she did remind me that I was a good boy :)

Rally-O is getting more fun. We got to do an actual course this week instead of just going through the individual exercises. Well, we did learn a couple new things too, and a couple old things. We did some 180 turns (those I knew), and we did a side step to the right (that was the new one). That was a little bit trickier, but I had Beta doing just fine before too long. Teacher thinks I'm really smart for being able to teach Beta so well. She was going on about how the side step would get better as the week went on, or: 'If you're Pixel, you'll have it before you leave today'. That made me feel good, and Beta was pretty happy about it too.