On Monday, me and my little girl went to our weekly agility practice. The weather was ideal: it was raining heavily and the whole sandlot looked like a lake.
Wearing raincoat I took the challenge to make my dog do what she was supposed to, and to my surprise, she did! She followed my orders like a dream. There are two possible reasons for that:
1. The rain cooled her down
2. Due the rain, many dogs were absent (and my dog can concenrate better when there are no others around)
Also, I have to mention one more thing. When there are puddles on the ground, my little doggy goes around them, never through. I think she has picked the habit from me. It reminds me of the dog in the Jack Nicholson movie As Good As It Gets, where the little pooch doesn't step on the lines since Jack doesn't. I thought first when I saw the movie, that the dog had just been trained to do that but when I saw my dog go around the puddles because I did so... It made me so proud.
But during our practice my dog ran through the puddles. Maybe since I ran through them too. And when we got home, she again made sure that her feet won't get wet.
