Leader of the Pack

The Adventure Pack

Benny loves nibbling on things and he found a number of small twigs along the trails to satisfy him.  Wesley was pretty mellow today.  He just followed along with me and didn't get into any chasing or wreslting around with his packmates.  Coco and Rucksack went all out together as they chased and hip-checked each other down the trails.  I had to call them to stop them several times because they seemed like they would have just gone on otherw...

The Adventure Pack

Mogul mostly kept up with the pack today instead of lagging behind during the hike, although he did stop to smell the roses occasionally.  At one point, Benny lied down next to the trail and rolled over onto his back, inviting Rucksack to play with him.  Rucksack had a great time pouncing at him and then pulling away, back and forth for a while, and Benny loved it.  Coco was a little spastic for a bit when she saw Benny and Rucksack playing, but ...

The Adventure Pack

Toskey and Coco were having fun off-leash together when another dog came up the trail.  I think the other dog was a little intimidated by the pack so he stopped in place and held his held kind of low while watching us.  Coco and Toskey interpreted his posture as stalking and started barking at the other dog to sound the alarm.  They settled down after a moment and the dog came over and everyone had a good sniff.  Later on, we came across a g...

The Adventure Pack

Coco has been much quicker at coming when I call her on the trails lately - something she's been having some trouble with.  She and Benny just did a lot of sniffing when they were off leash together.  Later on, when Rucksack found a big stick to carry, Coco and Benny gnawed on either end of it.  When Rucksack wasn't carrying his stick, he was hopping around Wesley and getting his packmate to play with him.  Coco and Benny both had some troub...

The Adventure Pack

Coco and Rucksack were up to their usual antics of chasing and stick-stealing today.  They were very good about coming to me when I called, as well as sitting and waiting while other dogs approached from up the trail.  Mogul and Benny didn't romp around around with each other.  They did their own things and just sniffed around in the brush as we went.  They were also very well behaved.  Benny greeted a couple yellow Labs at one point bu...

The Adventure Pack

Coco chased Wesley on the trails today.  We also worked on coming back to me when I called; Wesley has always been pretty reliable and Coco was coming much more reliably today than she has on some occassions in recent weeks.  Rucksack teased Benny into chasing him, and Benny really enjoyed it.  They were both also very good at coming when I called, though Rucksack was wandering a bit too far sometimes.  I'm going to be keeping a closer eye o...

The Adventure Pack

We focused on walking on leash without pulling again for a lot of the hike today.  Coco and Rucksack both have a hard time watching one another play with other dogs without joining in; they dance around in place and whine a lot.  When they settled down and sat, they got a treat.  Benny was off leash with Rucksack and he enjoyed eating snow again.  Rucksack had a beard of snow again after romping around in it, and Benny licked it off of his f...

The Adventure Pack

We focused more on obedience than on covering ground during today's hike.  The pack members have started straying a bit more off-leash and pulling a bit more on-leash lately, so I did a lot of work with them to keep up better habits.  Everyone responded very well.  Coco and Rucksack ran around with each other but came when I called and after receiving a few treats they stuck closer.  Wesley and Benny stopped pulling ahead on leash and when t...

The Adventure Pack

Benny followed Coco around during today's hike.  Coco teased him with a stick for a little while; Coco is pretty athletic and Benny had no hope of stealing it from her but he sure tried.  Later on, Wesley alternated between walking at my side and romping with Rucksack.  Rucksack found a tennis ball left along the trail and carried that with him for the rest of the hike.

The Play Pack

Daisy's second time out wit...

The Adventure Pack

Early in the hike, Coco walked up a ahead a little bit, sniffing the trail all the way, while Mogul hung back, lingering to get a good smell of choice spots.  Every so often, Mogul would suddenly pop up and come bounding past me to give Coco a short chase and then they would both fall back into their preferred positions.  Later on, Toskey found a stick to tease Coco with.  After a short chase, Coco snagged the stick out of Toskey's mouth mid-stri...