A New Puppy

I’ve never been excited about a puppy before.  Growing up our dogs had puppies and I was generally sheltered from the experience.  Then the puppies were sold off with the rare exception of a puppy we kept for ourselves.  They were so tiny, being chihuahua puppies, and so fragile.  I was as scared to break one as I was excite dto play with one.  As an adult, I have only had one dog of my own, and that is Lilli.   And as much as I wanted a frisbee dog, truth was i was more afraid she would not be a frisbee dog.  When Andrea got Lilli for me, I told her this would be her dog, and Andrea agreed.

And as often happens to Andrea, my amazing wife, she did all the work training Lilli and I got to reap all the rewards of having an amazing frisbee dog.   It was probably 6 months when i first started training with Lilli, after Andrea had already covered all the basics and weaned me into training. Andrea is fearless, I love that about her!  She dove into getting me a dog, training a puppy, taking on agility and freestyle, all new for her.

So Saturday we expect to get Leilani, and I feelmore excited and less scared.  This is my red merle Aussie puppy.  I have all the same fears, and this time fear doesn’t get to make my choices for me.  I choose to love, train and enjoy Leilani, for all that she is, all that she isn’t and all that my training is or isn’t. 

I am confident she will be wonderful agility and disc dog and even more I am confident she will get my love and attention.  She will likely demand a lot of it too. And I should acknowledge that Andrea will be supporting me and I her as we continue to train Lilli and Leilani.