And so ends another busy weekend! We started Friday with the first in a series of eight training sessions with Emmett and Lucas. The course we're taking adds escalated distractions and distance to commands. The boys are pretty decent with distance - not so much with distractions. Especially other dogs. Or kids. Or food. Or, actually, pretty much anything that moves! So this class will be great

This is Emmett: He is the sweetest boy you'll ever meet. Yes, I may be biased, but he truly does melt every single person he encounters. We spent this past weekend at my parents' house with many relatives and cousin-pups coming and going. Yesterday about 20 people came to cookout, including my elderly grandfather and great aunts. Emmett spent the evening going from person to person, laying

Because of a whole series of activities occurring on the same day, last Saturday I ended up dogsitting a total of eight dogs: my guys Emmett and Lucas, my mom's dog Otto, my sister's dogs Tank and Buster, my cousin's dog Turk, and my aunt's dogs Louis and Bubba. All I can say is..... PHEW! I brought them all to one location, my aunt's house because she has a pool, which I thought would be fun

Typically, Lucas guards the backyard heavily whenever we're outside. Anything that comes near - a bird, a pedestrian, even the occasional errant leaf - gets barked at. With Turk here, though, that whole dynamic has changed. Apparently, Lucas prioritizes wrestling over guarding! For example: The two of them tolerate a lot from each other. While they primarily just chase around in circles,