Great Weekend... here and there

This was a good weekend on a few fronts with Beckett and his 'progression'. He has made great strides with coming when he's called for going outside and when he's outside he is, as we've mentioned before, a different dog.


This past week was a rough one because he seemed have no trauma in his life and yet, he was messing here and there without cause. Now there is a little issues with him and being down on the landing with two of us there. When both Darrin and I are on the landing, you can't delay clipping on to him and getting him outside. It has to be a fluid movement (gawd that's a bad pun after his reaction on Saturday) and out the door before he has too much time to think about it.


Of course, it doesn't help when the two of you are trying to speed things along and you get snappy with each other along the way. It's funny now but on Saturday it wasn't during the poop fest and liquid release on the steps. Darrin while trying to get Beckett out of there because of the situation tried to point out the number of messes and their exact location, I on the other hand was not really caring about the messes left but the quantity yet to be distributed and Darrin and I got snappy at each other, which didn't help the mood of the evening's plan for a movie.


On Saturday, I decided I owed Darrin a "Beckett Brake" for the day and took Beckett along with me and Granddaughter Isabelle. Beckett made an instant friend when Isabelle decided to share pieces of her breakfast sandwich. As I mentioned before Beckett is now a car hound. He absolutley loves to go in the car. Best of all, he is fantastic in the car! You'd swear he was raised his whole life with car travel. This is the same dog that had to get on the floor of the front seat of a car and slide out on his belly because he couldn't touch the ground and have his feet still touching the car's interior. Now we say "Car" shake the car keys and open the door. He's up in the back seat before you can say it twice. LOL


He doesn't go crazy when another dog is in the car with him nor does he go into a barking frenzy when another dog is near. Big plus points for that!!


Anyway, he went with us out to see the horses but unfortunately it was too cold and dirty to take him out of the car. I think I'll wait until I know I can bath him before I release him into a barnyard.


Today he was beyond our wildest expectations. We went to Darrin's parent's house to remove some of the excess snow from their roof, and thus eliminate the snow dams that cause so much damage. Beckett was not happy being left in the car when his playmate Chance was playing in the snow just a few feet away. After a spell Darrin went and got Beckett out of the car so he could play... and play they did. Beckett went totally crazy with play. Poor Chance must have felt like he'd been coupled up with an HDHD kid on a sugar high! Then after when lunch was ready we were going to put Beckett back in the car but thought we'd give him a try in the house with the other three dogs. it was here that Beckett amazed us. We stuck the 4 ft lead on him and let him loose in the house. He became so comfortable he was following Chance around, through small openings around all of us. he became so comfortable that Darrin's dad just walked up and bent over and started scratching both sides of Beckett's face. There was no flinching, backing up, growling .... nonthing except a little dog enjoying the attention. This continued the whole time he was in the house with the other dogs. All four dogs got along as if they had been raised together.