well Maddie's been really busy this week - she was at Agility last night and Obedience training tonight (as was I, followed by Pilates tonight so I've been even busier!) - and did very well. Actually the two are kind of related - Emily took her to Agility last week but couldn't manage this week so I took her - and discovered from another participant that yes she was in the same classes as Maddie and me last year and yes, the classes had moved back to their hall on Wednesdays (hall was damaged by snow in December so classes moved to Thursdays somewhere else but I can't do Thursdays) so we could go again - Maddie was very good, apart from spending most of her resting time trying to make it to the door!
In the meantime she's still scared of Dougal the St Bernard whom we often see in the mornings, and won't go near - standing growling and barking at him. Murphy has therefore taken to harassing poor Dougal (who wouldn't hurt a fly), usually running up to him before deciding that, well, maybe he's bigger than him so he'll not bother. This morning however he went for it and ran up, growling at him. Poor Dougal did a couple of sidesteps but Murphy went and headbutted him! (he had his muzzle on). He did it again the next time we met him (Dougal and owner were walking the other way round the track from us) so I put Murfs on his lead next time we saw Dougal looming out of the mist...wouldn't want him getting traumatised....
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