We are meeting up in Bristol on Saturday January 10th at 11am! Here's the plan. We'll meet initially at Ashton Court Church Lodge Car Park. As there will be some reactive dogs in-tow we'll do an on-lead walk for around 25 - 30 minutes and then we'll head down to the The Ashton pub which is just around the corner for post-walk drinks. The pub is dog-friendly but I'll leave it to your judgement as to whether you bring them in or leave them to rest in your vehicle. This is free and is open to everyone - even lurkers! Just let us know if you're coming 👇

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@Nick Benger it says there is a meet up in 3 days but no details - is this an everyone welcome?

Took Maggi out for a walk today, managed from a distance to just watch walkers, runners other exciting dogs! Maggi recalled back straight away! I have noticed her mood has changed, back to puppy! 😄

Aster has been doing a lot of enforced resting, which luckily for her is extremely easy. I don't know how people with incredibly high drive dogs manage in these situations. I remember seeing a post by the ModernMalinois guy (I really loved his content but I don't think he does much anymore which is a shame) on his training of rest days which he builds into his schedule as a must. I got to say I have it easy, although she is still trying to play and get excited when I stand up to stretch or go for a wander between working... We've done a few very low energy reps of leash pop focus and indications and whatnot, which has been good. I have also looked up and contacted a couple of physios as I would like to have Aster looked at more routinely. I spent a long time last night just giving her a good massage myself, using some fascial release work on her hind leg and around her hindquarters. She absolutely loved it, loads of yawns and squidgy eyed looks. A lot of muscle twitching happening and "disco leg" - quite a lot going on. I also did some tail pulls/bounces as I think this is a very tight area for her too. She is definitely better today on it today. We have a way to go but she's putting more weight on it. I really hope she is OK for the meet up this weekend!