Chai, Game and I had a full day in Mexico City before our road trip tomorrow! We did a bunch of stuff but kept it low key:
+ Chai joined me on a trip to the lavandería and a loop through the Walmart corridor in her backpack.
+ Husbandry: “Brush!” and “Claws!” (all four paws and doing well!)
+ We worked some more on her understanding of the different meaning of treats in my open hand versus closed fist.
+ We worked on distinguishing “dish” (take food from bowl) from a tongue click (come to my hand for food).
+ We walked to Calle Cuauhtémoc and back and Chai did REALLY well passing the two Pits both going out and coming back!
My neighbor has a car repair shop – and, true to the stereotype, two (lovely!) Pit Bull Terriers.
I’ll end with another paragraph that, like the footnote in Scarlett’s post, has taken me a while to phrase more or less the way I wanted. Future posts should be smooth sailing again, so you can expect your daily Chai update AND eventually (I promise; I’ve started doing weekly digests) we’ll catch up to the present day!
Thank you …
… for all our inspiring and nerdy dog training conversations, Chris Cernac, over the last few months. I’ve loved them. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and questions, your knowledge and points of view. I’m sure you will (if you look) see traces of you in my future training. I’ll give you credit when I can. In case you read this one day: know that I appreciate this part of our paths crossing.
I realize that leaving Prince and Chris pictures and stories out of Chai’s May diaries is leaving out part of her experience, but I can’t write about Prince and you without also writing about personal things that I don’t want to share online at this point. It’s not about you – I wish you well. This is just me not wanting to share these particular personal stories with a wider audience today.