Wish us luck

Just a random post/gripe about Saleen. Don't have anyone else to tell it to LoL.

Saleen is going to meet the pet sitter for the first time tomorrow morning. I hope she behaves herself and doesn't have any OMG a scary stranger type "blonde moments" She is going to need to be friends with this lady though because if she isn't she's gonna have a real shock coming to her when mommy and daddy disappear for an undetermined amount of time (hopefuly only 3 days max, one to deliver, two to recover. Lets hope we don't need more than the standard two days)

I'm so worried that I've ruined her. Crappy timing to get prego and be so ill I couldn't take her out and keep up on her social skills. :doh: In the last two weeks though we've been trying a little harder since I've felt better up until today. I popped in to my obedience class which I am off the hook this month from teaching and she did soooo well. She even went with the other instructor whom she kind of knows but not very well and hasn't seen in months and worked really well for her as a demo dog. She let a few people pet her and took a lot of interest in the other dogs. Only once did she shy away and it was from a friend of mine who is a very tall man. He was sitting down though and she acted like she was going to say hello and then when he said hello back she didn't want anything to do with him lol.

I got grounded by the doctor and I had to stay home from the agility trial I was going to take her to this weekend to walk around at. We did still get to go to the retirement home though. Methinks Saleen has no future as a therapy dog :rolffleyes: just not her thing and she's not even super cuddly with us at home so I didn't expect her to be like Jazz and try and crawl in any lab available. She was doing well though, GREAT with all the other dogs and kennel club memebers and greeting a fair amount of residents as long as they weren't walking with a walker and trying to smack at her head which is how somebody attempted to pet her. Bummer though we ended up taking one step forward and two steps back when an obnoxious little kid wouldn't take no for an answer and kept chasing her trying to pet her. It took two other people to rein said child in and find her parental unit to get her to leave Saleen alone. Saleen doesn't like kids it's pretty obvious, won't even take treats from them. I dont like kids either so I don't really care to be honest but I do care that it freaked her out enough that after that she wouldn't visit with anyone else. What more and I don't get this at all, people seem to be drawn to Saleen and will ignore super therapy dog Jazz given the chance. Saleen is more of a let me check you out and then we can be friends type of personality right now. Again, my fault, it wasn't always so. The guy I worked with back when she was about 5 mo old she hated and he was always doing somthing to scare her. She begin to go through a bit of a fear period that I had noticed and bang morning sickness just about killed me so I wasn't able to deal with it. I even stopped taking her to work to stop the exposure to this guy and hopefuly prevent the issue from getting worse, to late.

Weirdly enough though Satan himself could walk through our front door and Saleen would be friends with him. Thats been the case so far, she's super comfortable in the house and back yard. Step out the front door and it's a toss up sometimes who she will be happy to see and who she won't. She seems to not like a lot of men which I hope I can fix asap when everything settles down and returns to some version of normal. We've got quite a bit of social skills work to do to have her ring ready sometime in the next year which is my goal. We'll see how much Nicholas changes that, hopefully I can do both I'm almost not planning to go back to working.

Next time I get a puppy though I will make sure I am on birth control.... ROFL.