An almost anniversary

April 2-a little more than 11 months ago, Teddy arrived via American Airlines, accompanied by a goat(which fortunately didn't come home with us). I just returned from 2 weeks with Shannon, Shaun, Faith and Benjamin in Texas. The dogs stayed here, baby-sat by Jen (mostly), with a little help from Miriam and Scott. My return was hailed with excitement, since, of course in dog years I was gone, gee, what must've seemed like at least a year. Teddy was like my crew: bouncing and yapping and just like them, willing even more to work with me. Fast forward to this morning when, after our walk, I decided to pull out the agility jump, since finally I could (no snow). After Sunny and Storm did their usual jumping, I tried Teddy, but this time, instead of laying the jump down so he would only have to jump maybe a half of foot, I left it upright, trying to coax him. Normally I'd use the clicker, but God forbid, that would scare the daylights out of him, so when he quit crawling underneath, (knowing that wasn't what I wanted), he put one foot on the middle bar and I yelled "YES!!! GOOD BOY" and rewarded him. So when I tried again, he jumped...and he did several more as well. I praised him profusely and rewarded him, much to the indignation of the collies who looked like "Big hairy deal". But it IS a big deal...another HUGE breakthrough for Texas Teddy who has his license now here in Fort Erie. He has dual citizenship before Auntie Denise too!!