Afternoon All. I've been debating on sharing this - kind of difficult to admit that someone has me wrapped around his little paw .....
Our morning routine for the last 8 days has been rather structured: upon waking, Oggie goes out to the backyard (solo) for early morning "business" and as soon as that's completed, he comes inside for brekie. Then we wait a bit (coffee #1 for me and some play time for him) and it's backyard time again. He's on his own until the "business" has been completed, then I join him outside for a game of fetch for about 15 minutes or so. Back inside we go (coffee #2 for me) followed by some structured training. Then, out to the back-forty (green space behind the house) for walk/leash training and of late, off-leash training. By then it's about 11 - time for me to reconvene the job search and him to have a nap.
However, today, I woke up feeling very poorly. I decided to increase the fetch time (after about 15 minutes changed from the ball to a stick) because I just knew I wouldn't be doing anymore training - not indoors nor outdoors - as my throat was just too sore.
Oggie looked out of sorts when we didn't go into the "training room" when we came inside but he managed to entertain himself very well. After a period of time, while pouring my third cup of coffee, my eye caught a prancing blur moving quickly through the kitchen. When the blur stopped moving, I saw he had his leash in his mouth. He dropped it right at the back door and sat down beside it. Swell. I was caught squarely between "oh, isn't that cute" and "you've got to be kidding me". (I wonder if he thought he was being subtle?)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...tLT6O7NLkrNdNg
As cute as it looked, I didn't fall for it (didn't want to be setting that precedent, thank you very much). However, I did take him for a seriously extended lunchtime walk. He's sleeping under my desk right now and I'm very tempted to join him!