Our Li'l Graduate...and Rebellious teen!

Well our li'l girl is growing up...and asserting her independence...

Last Saturday, April 2, Lena attended her final beginner class at Petsmart with her trainer/teacher Amy.  During her final class Lena needed to navigate an "obstacle" course.  At specific stations she needed to demonstrate all the skills she has learned during the 8 weeks.  There was a station for sit,come, down, leave it, stay, and "trick".  She went through the course 3 times, once with Amy, once with me, and finally once with Randi.   She performed magnificently all 3 times, with the exception of "stay", she just can't handle sitting still that long.  After competing her course work it was time to celebrate her graduation, complete with treats and a hat!  Once the celebration was over and all the pictures of the special day were taken it was time to get her enrolled in "middle school" her intermediate classes, which begin the end of April.

Practicing down and crawl!

Spinning is fun!

So much fun I'll do it again!

Graduation Time!

We're so Proud of our li'l girl!

Acting crazy with Amy!

Her Diploma

Lena took part in the "Paws for a cause" dog walk on Sunday April, 3.  It was a 3K walk...which I am counting as my April event...to benefit cancer research in dogs...she was a very good girl the whole time...she even let us put a green bandana on her...it actually tired her out for a couple of days...After the walk we came home and made some steaks for dinner, and had s'mores for dessert, and Lena got some peanut butter...

Ready for our Walk!

Makin' Friends!

Who wants to walk in a silly ole' straight line...zig zags are way more fun!

MMM S'mores!

Can I have a taste?

Now that she's starting "middle school" she's acting more and more like the "teenager" she is...

We recently stopped crating her at night, giving her free range of the house during the night, she stays in our room and very rarely, if ever, gets off her bed.  She does wonderfully well at night, with the exception of an occasional cold nose in my face at 3:00 AM...I roll over and go back to sleep and she goes straight back to her bed. However this has created a bit of a problem with crating her during the day, while we are at work.  All week long Randi would coax Lena into her crate before she left for work.  Then on Friday Lena would NOT go into the crate, for 10 minutes Randi had to struggle with trying to coax her into the crate.  Finally Randi had to grab her and force her into the crate, giving herself a bruise in the process.  Once in the crate she was fine all day long...SO needless to say we are currently experimenting with letting her out while we are not home.  This past weekend we left her out while we went out to lunch and ran some errands, about 3-4 hours each day.   When we got back we were worried, the only thing out of place were 2 blankets that had been moved from the couch to the floor (Both Days!).  So it looks like she can handle being on her own...but can she makes it 10 hours while we are at work...stay tuned!!!

Tuckered out after a LOONG weekend...but I will be back to my old tricks soon enough!