Welcome Back Soon! - From Mom

My awesome Bark and Biscuit trainer Ashley has Roxy for a board and train. I was supposed to get her back Friday, but she asked, with my permission, if a few more days of training would be okay because Roxy needs it! I love that Ashley looks out for our best interest! I know Roxy is a high strung little ball of excitement and energy. She wants so much to please you, but sometimes she tries too hard, gets freaked out when she can't figure out what you want, and falls over on her back as if she's saying, "I tried, please just love me!" It's so sad. If she were to just calm down and pay attention, I know she is smart enough to get it!!

Ashley is also teaching her to leave stuff outside! She's just so excited to go say hi to everything, that it can be annoying, and even dangerous when we're running or on my bike. This, among other things, Bark and Biscuit is getting taken care of! I miss her so much since I live alone, but this is totally worth it. And every picture she sends me of Roxy, she always looks so happy! A dog with a job is definitely a happy one. In the meantime I'm trying to take advantage of my extra time and get things done! I don't have a yard, so it's nice to be able to run some errands after work for awhile and take my mind off of my current lack-of-dog.

I made her a Welcome Back sign on the kitchen chalk board I made! Cuz...Roxy will totally appreciate it............she'll walk in and see that...and be like......wooofity woofin wooof! and I'll be like, "I love you too!"

So Much Work - From Roxy

Okay. I think I'm finally understanding what these people want from me. They want me to be calm like a lot and around a lot of things, and to pay attention to them. When I get very excited, it is not good. I feel bossy and like I could just do whatever I want! Which is a great feeling, but my humans don't seem to appreciate it very much! Especially when we're outside. Then I feel really bad when I make them not happy. Plus I get so distracted that I wander too far! Instead let's all be happy, I can do this! I can listen to them! I like structure! Cuz sometimes I don't know what to do...and it makes me sad and nervous that I'm not doing something right. I'd rather we just all get along, and if I'm supposed to heel around a chicken, or come when I'm called, or not plow into you when we play fetch, then that's what I'll do!

I've been working for almost a week now with my other pack leader Ashley. Maybe that's why mom kept saying she'd miss me! I haven't seen her. Maybe she's not allowed cuz I'd get so so excited! 

Well I hope mom knows this is worth it, I love all this attention and work and I can't wait to show her what I know!

Ch-ch-cheee ... eese? - From Roxy

Oh dear this trainer is making me just sit outside my door! I can't even go anywhere and it makes me very nervous! I think she's waiting for me to 'relax,' as mom says. Maybe...maybe if I give her a smile...we may then go, yes?

You're hot then you're cold - From Mom

Roxy was going through one of her twice a year shedding extravaganzas! If you've ever been in my home, it's fairly clean all the time and I could NOT handle that fur everywhere!! So she got shaved...then the temp went from being 90, to 50! Dammit Utah! 

Roxy was very cold!

I felt so bad, seeing her all curled up the last couple days. I knew I had to do something, so I bought her a nice fleece hoody to wear outside, and a new t-shirt inside. I loved the hoody so much we had to take pics. She is much warmer now, and looking cute sporting her lion's tail. Apparently her hair underneath is skin-colored, so at least now she doesn't look naked.

My First Pack Hike - from Roxy

Some lady that keeps randomly stopping by when mom isn't home took me in her moving metal box today! She usually just walks me and makes me be calm and sit there a lot, but this time there was a one of those metal boxes on those rubber things that smell like a toy! And other dogs! And it WAS SO FREAKING EXCITING AND I WAS SCARED AND HAPPY AND OH JEEZ I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE! But she let me know that I needed to calm down cuz there is nothing to worry about, and I couldn't get too excited. With the other dogs here, we must be going some place fun! That always happens when there's other dogs in the moving metal box!

We went on a hike! Daisy and Nakia didn't seem to like me at first. I mean I tried to show them how fun and exciting it was that we were on a hike...but they seemed...quietly happy. It was strange. But being the new girl, I wanted to fit in of course. So I decided to relax too and then they liked me. I was having too much fun to be scared and wonder where mom was, I just wanted to fit in with the pack, and I did it. Although if mom were there, I bet she'd be proud. This new lady that took me is definitely the alpha of her pack! I should probably listen to her, then maybe I'll get to go again sometime.

Proud of You Roxy Roo! - From Mom

Roxy has been trying to make it to the Wolf Pack! What do I mean? Trainer Ashley Wolf has been working with her to be a calm happy pup that I can take anywhere. We have quite a ways to go, but it'll be nice to be able to take her on the bike (which she LOVES) without fearing for our lives when she gets distracted. She cries and 'talks' at you when there are other dogs because she wants too desperately to play when it's not always an option, like on a bike...going fast...down a hill...next to traffic...or in a car on a long drive to go camping, and we got miss cry baby freaking out in the backseat! No no Rox.

Roxy has made some huge progress however in the last few weeks. In fact just last night she didn't even freak out and cry in her normal over-excitement when other dogs are in the vicinity. You can see the dog circled in the background and she's just happily staring at the trainer asking what's next!

Very proud of you Roxy. Pretty soon we'll be able to go EVERYWHERE together without you becoming an anxious wreck! Can't wait.

Roxy Home Alone - From Mom

I was very curious as to what Roxy does when I'm not here. So I downloaded this awesome iSpy software (FREE!) that detects movement. Unfortunately the aduio doesn't work (yet!) but I was able to catch what she did. This was only about ten minutes after I left. I'm happy my little girl entertains herself so well!

Now I gotta get the audio fixed for even more excitement and fun.