Class #2

Tonight will be our second intermed. obedience class with Linda. I am looking very forward to it, as always. :)

Jade is so funny. He's been going to the door and tapping the knob with his nose. This does not mean he has to go pee - it means he wants to go somewhere. Anywhere. Tonight he'll know where we are going the second I grab his leash and his other collar, heh. Dogs are so smart. It amazes me, the things they figure out.

Before class, I'm going to trim his nails again and clean his ears. The quicks of his nails are finally starting to recede, thank goodness. His nails are so thick and so black, it's impossible to tell where the quick is, so I think that until recenltly, I hadn't been cutting them short enough to make any difference in the quick. While I was trying to get the nails shorter, they were actually just getting longer, and the darn quick was growing out further. Blah, annoying thing. I did buy a dremel for his nails a couple months ago, and that works really nice in smoothing them after I trim them. It also helps in getting the nails shorter than I will comfortably cut them. That way, I can dremel right up to the quick without drawing any blood, while knowing that I've gotten them as short as I can for the time being. Hopefully that made sense, haha.

The yeast infection in Jade's ears is getting better. The veterinarian said that his worst ear was his left ear, but I seriously think he may have misspoken, because Jade's left ear (though he was scratching it this morning) is the ear that has most noticeably gotten better. His right ear is the one that still has lots of black gunk deep down. Poor guy. The enzyme gel really seems to be helping, but I think that if his ears have not completely cleared up in another week or so, we'll have to go back to the vet, since it's already been almost two weeks.

Well, I'm going to hop in the shower then work with Jade on our new commands a little bit more and get him ready to go.

Hopefully we'll have some photos from our class tonight. I told Patrick that if he doesn't take pictures of us, I won't buy him his cheese quesadilla and nachos from Taco Bell for dinner, haha.