What did I ever do without you?
So my evening went like this....
We missed nosework two weeks ago since Summer was injured. I was supposed to bring both girls to make it up last week but the tornado hit and we cancelled. So I decided to work them both tonight.
I had to drop my sister off at her house, which is about 2 miles from the training facility. I went inside and talked for like... 5 minutes to my family and left the girls in the car. The treats were in a sealed ziplock, in a zipped bag, in a locked kennel, in the trunk of the SUV. Mia has gotten the treats twice before so I've gotten tighter on security with them. Well, I talk to them, get back to my car- everything is fine. I then go on down the road, pull over and open the trunk and realize the ziplock is laying in the trunk and the turkey is 100% gone. There was probably 1/2 a lb in the bag. :yikes:
So... walk of shame to my trainer. "Mia ate all the treats again." Really short of NEVER leaving her in the car with treats in the car, I don't think I'll fix this. I have been good lately about pocketing the treat bag on the way out. Oops.
So I put the dogs in a spare soft crate and then head out to my car to grab my wire crates.... I walk back in and my trainer is holding Mia. "What happened?" "Mia escaped the crate."
So Mia goes in the wire crate. The rest wasn't that eventful... my two barked quite a bit. I accidentally set Mia up in front of an old tv and she could see her reflection in it. So that needed to be barked at.
About halfway through class Summer escaped the crate. She has figured out that if you dig at the upper left corner of the zipper you can catch it and unzip it. I kept having to re-zip it all class.
All the other dogs behaved themselves. Except for mine.
On the plus side Mia did not throw up that turkey on the way home. She worked super slow though today. I bet she felt bloated, lol.
So my evening went like this....
We missed nosework two weeks ago since Summer was injured. I was supposed to bring both girls to make it up last week but the tornado hit and we cancelled. So I decided to work them both tonight.
I had to drop my sister off at her house, which is about 2 miles from the training facility. I went inside and talked for like... 5 minutes to my family and left the girls in the car. The treats were in a sealed ziplock, in a zipped bag, in a locked kennel, in the trunk of the SUV. Mia has gotten the treats twice before so I've gotten tighter on security with them. Well, I talk to them, get back to my car- everything is fine. I then go on down the road, pull over and open the trunk and realize the ziplock is laying in the trunk and the turkey is 100% gone. There was probably 1/2 a lb in the bag. :yikes:
So... walk of shame to my trainer. "Mia ate all the treats again." Really short of NEVER leaving her in the car with treats in the car, I don't think I'll fix this. I have been good lately about pocketing the treat bag on the way out. Oops.
So I put the dogs in a spare soft crate and then head out to my car to grab my wire crates.... I walk back in and my trainer is holding Mia. "What happened?" "Mia escaped the crate."
So Mia goes in the wire crate. The rest wasn't that eventful... my two barked quite a bit. I accidentally set Mia up in front of an old tv and she could see her reflection in it. So that needed to be barked at.
About halfway through class Summer escaped the crate. She has figured out that if you dig at the upper left corner of the zipper you can catch it and unzip it. I kept having to re-zip it all class.
All the other dogs behaved themselves. Except for mine.
On the plus side Mia did not throw up that turkey on the way home. She worked super slow though today. I bet she felt bloated, lol.
