Have been caught up in work (as one must in these, and most, times), life, and dog training. After Flora, we brought Nikolai home as a tiny puppy guy and now he’s a two year old standard poodle guy. The plan was, is, that he would be a service dog for M1. As with all things, it seems, we have a steep learning curve. The more I learn, the more I would change in hindsight. The more you know, and all that.
It’s hard work, and the further I get into it, the more there seems to be to do. Sometimes things just need to happen in their own time and you can spin your wheels until you think you get traction, or you can do a whole bunch of other stuff until the time is right and the traction appears at the same time as it would have if you were spinning your wheels.
There’s also so much that I hear and process but is too much to apply all at once. Or I can take in and process 50, 100, 1000 things in a period of time, but only apply 1-3 of those things in a meaningful way, but then what were the other 49, 99, 999 things again?
Another pattern I’m seeing is that my intuition is often right. I would have done stuff like the Canine Good Citizen way earlier - “it seemed like a good idea at the time” because it was an excellent idea and now we’re behind and trying to play catchup on some stuff that we probably could have caught and resolved earlier. BUT we do the best we can with the information and contexts we have at the time.
So - I don’t know what I’m doing with this space entirely right now. Where Phix’s Curiosity goes, there go I. And right now, I’m deep diving on all things dog training. I don’t know if that’s what I’ll write about here, but maybe I will, and if that’s a journey you’d like to join me on, then it may or may not be here for you to follow.
