Let's Shout Out Our Thursday Exercise!!!
I'm a 52.5 yr. old female with chronic illness ... exercising and riding a bike daily! : )
on 7/3/08 1:34 pm
AM gardening, toting buckets of water/feed, etc.
PM-Dog class. Counts quadruple.....Prissy threw the mother of all meltdown psychotic fits-and I had to ignore it. It was a good exercise for both of us, and when she switched out of psycho mode she hit every other command in the class.
Now, Priss weighs 3.5 pounds and several of the other dogs were well over 50, but it's not like the first time she's been out in the world-it was, her first and hopefully last wall eyed fit. People were staring and probably thought I was an awful dog owner, because my dog is snarling and foaming at the mouth and I am totally ignoring her while she sat under my chair and growled and shrieked for 30 minutes. If she rushed out snarling, i would correct her softly and put her back at my side, but beyond that I just sat there and ignored the drama.
But the end result was she realized that I, not she, controlled the situation and I was able to walk her on a loose leash right under the big dogs noses (who were in no danger whatsoever....) With shopping and practice, we probably got in 40 minutes of walking.
I'm a 52.5 yr. old female with chronic illness ... exercising and riding a bike daily! : )
