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My daughter is snap clicking, so if you have a comment from waterowl
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Hermione has a ear infection. Actually her old ear infection never really went away. :( After she went swimming, her infection flared up badly. She yelped when I cleaned her ears on Thursday night. Then on Friday night, she yelped when Walter tugged on her ears to pet them.

I went to the vet today. For ten days, I'm to use her Epi-Otic ear wash once a day and at another time of day put in Mometamax ear drops. She's also getting Prednisalone (a steroid we often gave Little T I note with some irony) to bring down the swelling in her ears.

Then I'm to use this different ear wash that is more drying once a week. And her ears shouldn't smell or be that gunky. I feel bad that my inexperience led me to let her ear infection continue, but now that I know her ears shouldn't smell and that I shouldn't be cleaning gunk out of her ears every day, I won't let it happen again.

In better news, the vet said that she didn't have skin allergies, so I guess Evo and Salmon Oil is working. I'm trying Missing Link to see if that improves things further.

Well in the absence of a real deadline, I give myself the public deadline

I will write a proposal for this anthology by Monday
I will write a second chapter for my novel by Friday

There

Thursday was a milestone in that we attended our first amusement park as a family. It was fun and uneventful exactly as it should be. The kids had such a great time that they asked to go back again the next day.

Hermione was playing ball with another dog when a soccer ball rolled a few feet away from her. She REALLY LOVES balls. Unfortunately I was busy chatting and missed the look she gave me before her eyes locked on the ball. That's what I saw out of the corner of my eye -- that stillness that presages pursuit. I turned to see a soccer player kick the ball past her head. Prey drive engaged. Her entire body was intent on pouncing on the ball and killing it. I called her once and she ignored me almost reaching the ball. I called her again with great urgency and she swerved just shy of the ball and ran, ears flapping, towards me. I'm very honored that she ranks me higher than pursuing balls. Seriously.

Someone emailed me "Hermione's a hoot." She makes me laugh everyday. I think she considers it one of her many jobs. LOL

A couple of my friends post book reviews and I've decided to post and see if folks like it.  If you want to see more, then let me know even if you don't like these particular books.  I tend to read a variety of books on particular themes.  Right now my two themes are dog training books and Jane Austen.  I think I've posted other book reviews before, but I haven't formally picked them out as book reviews.

Dog Training Books:

Canine body language : a photographic guide : interpreting the native language of the domestic dog  by Brenda Aloff 
First most of the book consists of black and white images of dogs.  Some have complained about the lack of color, but I personally found it easier to interpret the pictures this way.  I usually have trouble reading books like this but I found the photos and descriptions really illuminating.  Some of the photos are blurry because the photographer is capturing a second or two of action.  Yet after seeing the frozen image I was able to see it in my dog's interactions.  It's a book you have to study but if you have the ability to make use of this book, I highly recommend it.  This book also covers calming signals which most assistance dogs use quite a lot and I had not found such detail in other books.

The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell
I learned from this book how to do better recalls - move away from my dog.  It was not the revelation for me that people gush about in Amazon, but I got a good grounding in canine behavior from CCI.  I think another problem is the author does spend a bit too much time on personal anecdotes and not enough time on topics such as picking the right dog to begin with rather than bringing a problem dog to her practice.   It's short on training tips, but then it doesn't promise to be a training manual.  I think if you have problem understanding dog behavior or have a dog with behavior problems then I would recommend this book. 

Training a Labrador Retriever by September B. Morn
Part of a series of train your [breed] books which seems to be a growing trend.  A good basic training book that covered a surprising amount by simply laying out the how to without much theory. l'm not sure what specific things there were about labs except a brief few pages at the beginning about the breed standard.  I would recommend this book to any dog owner who wanted to train their dog.

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Your result for The Best Thing About You Test...

Discipline

Discipline is your greatest virtue.

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If you say something and the other person stiffens as though upset, but makes a light remark in response or no response, what do you do? If it depends, what does it depend on?

Since someone inevitably asks, no, you were not the person making the remark nor stiffening for that matter, I promise. :) I'm just curious to see what folks will say.

Because I love books and so do my LJ friends, I bring you (probably again)
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Although this list repeated itself several times, I liked this list overall and will try to read some of the books that I haven't read on it.

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Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

English Genius

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 93% Expert!
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For some reason I missed the word faze.

Aiobe the first dog I worked with in Team Training is finally graduating today as a hearing dog. The other dogs in my class either graduated in the next Team Training or were released.   Aiobe took a little longer as she was trained first as a service dog and then as a hearing dog.

I have a soft spot for Aiobe who was quick, responsive and eager to please and made my first time easy.  Aiobe also has a "knowledge bump" on her head. I hope she enjoys her new home and her people grow to love and appreciate her as much as I love and appreciate Hermione.  Knowing that she'll graduate today puts a smile on my face.

Her puppyraiser Alma has a blog for Aiobe.  She emailed her local cci list that Aiobe is graduating and I'm sure will update her blog soon.

Sucks: Dog w/diarrhea
Rocks: Dog who toilets on command on bare earth so evidence can be buried

Sucks: Fussy whining Little T who knees me in the groin in the process of trying to get closer
Rocks: I can hold Little T really close because he doesn't have a g-tube sticking out.

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Happy Birthday gconnor  Hope you're having a great day!   

It's so hot that even my dog doesn't want to run around.  On Thursday at a house with a huge backyard, she played about 5 games of fetch then plopped down on the grass.  Special K sat in the shade and read.  Only Little T and his friend played happily though also in the shade.

This morning she ran her "victory lap" as C calls it when she runs around in a circle of our downstairs.  We walked around it rocking the kids as babies.  Now it's an impromptu dog run.  The rest of the day she lies around.   I tell her to do something, she does it, then plops down wherever she is.  We call her "Hot Dog" which is actually a name for a CCI dog. 

Today we went to a school playdate and she plopped down whenever she could.  Special K who the playdate was for initially sulked about wearing a hat then decided to play.  Little T dived in and played with younger brothers.