Our Last Day
Yara’s started just ignoring her breakfast the last few days. Yesterday, she actually vomited while we were out, but she wouldn’t eat any of the treats we bought so I guess she’s fine enough. Last night I gave her two cups of food for dinner (rather than the standard cup and a half) and she ate it all up, albeit very slowly.
Anyway, we went to Crossgates Mall yesterday. Megan and I both were rather surprised that it wasn’t more crowded, but still we got a good share of pedestrian traffic to work around and a lot of strange obstacle work. Yara did excellent, as always. She walked me into a store front window that kind of jutted out, but all I did was drop the handle and she worked right around it. We did some escalator work (read: gave me heart failure). I loathe escalators with a fierce passion, but Yara didn’t mind them at all. In fact, she kept indicating them when we’d pass by another set and would bring me right up to them even when I’d try to work her passed. It was amusing. We also did our first elevator and I think this time Yara nearly had heart failure as it was a glass one and she seemed rather positive if she got too close to the edge she was going to fall off or die. Poor baby. She was fine once I moved over a bit so she could turn in the opposite direction and not be so preoccupied with her imminent death.
Later on, we went out to dinner at Pinhead Susan’s for our “Fidelco meal” and it was pretty packed. Yara was a total lazy bum and lounged out as much as she could under our table and my chair. Surprisingly, I’d never eaten there before! We’d had a slice of pizza at the mall, and I actually had some breakfast, but I was starving by the time we arrived and hardly could decide on what to get. I had some turkey artichoke dip sandwich thing and it was pretty yummy.
Today was our last official “day” of training and so we did all our paperwork and I signed my contract. Then, since it’s literally freezing out, we went to Wal-mart and did some laps while we shopped around. Nothing too strenuous and Yara was a total angel the entire time. She didn’t make even one mistake; I’m incredibly proud!
With the exception of a trip to NYC that will happen “sometime” that finished up everything we needed to do for our training. I can’t believe how fast it went! I’m kind of sad, to be honest, but I think it was really a very thorough ten days and I definitely learned a lot. As for Yara, I think it’ll be a wonderful match.
I leave you with more grainy cell phone photography (she was a brat and turned her head just as I snapped this):
And now, I am off, for I am quite hungry. More updates on my lovely girl to come.
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2 Comments on Our Last Day
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daysies on
Sat, 15th Dec 2007 9:22 pm
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Cyndy on
Sat, 15th Dec 2007 10:12 pm
i know that there are certain things that Maddie can’t have… like treats & rawhides that are chicken-flavored… though we have some biscuits that are chicken-flavored but they’re tiny enough that it doesn’t seem to affect her tummy.
i’m happy to see that you survived the 2-week training. i can’t wait to read more stories… and see more pictures! :)
I think the vomit thing was more because we were kind of in a stressing place and the silly dog didn’t eat her breakfast. She turned her nose up to the treats, so her tummy couldn’t have been too bad. And she ate all her dinner last night.
She didn’t eat breakfast again today, but cleaned out nearly three cups for dinner. So, I don’t know. I wish I could figure out her appetite, it’s sort of annoying. But what can you do?
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