More of the same today although Aster's flat again and just not the same. I don't know what's up with her atm. I don't think we've over done it, if anything we're not doing as much as normal... maybe this is the issue. I don't know. I'm not going to get too hung up yet but I just feel like something isn't quite right with her.

We have signed up for SoCS and Jens Frank article indication. So this was day one, I'm really impressed, the lesson part was clear and gave me everything I needed, both the question thread and the Facebook live had interesting questions that Jens answered thoroughly and again, to me anyway, I find him really detailed and clear. He does that thing that all good teachers do where he answers the same or similar questions over again as if it's the first time he has been asked them. Silver nailed day one, I expect it to get a lot harder from here but we will try to keep up.

Day 27 was the usual quiet Sat but day 28 I had Silver at a Gundog training day. She did really well with the work and being around all the other dogs. She did feel the need to tell off any dogs for running into her space but as they shouldn't have been doing that nobody minded. I'd prefer her not to do that but I accept its just who she is. All in all we both had a lovely time. The work was exercises we have been practicing except it's not me throwing the dummy, Silver wasn't sure if she should take the dummy back to the person that threw it so I did have to call her to me. She would make a rubbish toy thief 🤣

All about dogs - did the usual with Silver. Then went to train Sully and Minnie the spaniel puppy's. Had a lesson with Charlotte using one of her labs she doesn't have time for so I've to add her to my list for weekly training. So cool to get the opportunity to work with other dogs, really going to boost my skills.

We have had a good few days, ticking along running the normal things and plugging the heel with numpty boy. until last night when Igor decided he wanted to bring his new mate in for dinner. Im guessing in igors mind he was planning on it being dinner! it was chaos for a while trying to stop him bringing it in the house and then once i evicted it he then spent a good 30 mins sniffing every inch of the patio in hope that it would rock up again. However in all the crazy he did drop it when asked so that's a plus. Training today had me slightly surprised. We did some scent work, over,unders,up, balance,heel work and so on. I put Igor in place while I moved some scent boxes around. He went to break early but instantly listened when I said stay and when I got back to him he went to shoot off before my release but not only did he stop when asked he came back to place and waited to be released!! What the! Who is he??? He really got the hang of 2 toy "outs" once he realised he gets the second toy once her drops the first. His love of a toy is strong but he did so well. Phoenix was really attentive, I have seen a big shift in her over the last few months, her crazy is still there and she still needs some work on a few things but I don't give her enough credit sometimes, she's a real pleasure to train at the moment. So apart from hedgehog gate things have been ok this week so far. I've probably jinxed myself now. Insta Vs reality