7:30am - Walk around the block. Worked on LLW. Today wasn’t quite as good as Ellie seemed kind of excited. Plus there was a considerable amount of squirrel activity going on. Though, she did pretty well with the squirrels - sitting and hoping that I would release her to go get them (I didn’t do this!). We worked on attention down by Lucy’s house.

1:15pm - LLW down to the end of Elm and back. We saw the postman - that was exciting! Pretty good for most of the way. Treats used: boiled chicken. Let her run around in the backyard with Katy for a bit.

2pm - Out of her crate to play with the squeaky sun. At first she was only interested in the kitty, the smell of the breeze coming through the window and imagined sounds from outside. I put her on leash and had a party with the toy. “Ready, ready, ready” got me a squirrelly girl who only wanted to rub her GL on my leg. We had a quite a struggle as I worked to interrupt. She is strong. Finally, finally, I got her to chase the sun. She was into it and we did some crate game releases to tug on it.

6pm Katy won’t walk on her back left paw. I soaked it in epsom salts like the vet suggested, but she still won’t step on it. She’s in Ellie’s crate looking sad.

6:30pm Walked around the bigger block with Ellie with smoked salmon! LLW in the face of birds and squirrels. Still she did pretty well. Came home and played with the squeaky sun. Tested some of the levels. She tested all the way up to the level seven down!

8pm Pre-Novice class with Ellie at CABTC. She had a really great night in class. We worked on scootches in front and in heel position. Then we did a couple different recalls. One was restrained. One was a chase and one was a call to front. She did excellent on all of these. And got compliments from the teacher!