It's a little overdue but have been wanting to blog it since the day it happened.
So Tuesday May 26th came to fruition and Marc and I both had little butterflies in our tummy. We didn't know what to expect, and felt like Pugs was ready...
Late in the morning, I received a call telling me Milo's ashes were ready. So during my lunch, I went to go pick them up, and thought...wow, this is a little bittersweet of a day....
I picked them up, cried a little, picked up Milo pictures that I had ordered from Blacks to make a little memorabilia album thing, and went back to work...
So, Marc finished work earlier so he could go home and practice a little more with Pugsley. After work when I got home, I made fast spaghetti, and already started to prepare Pugsley for the road trip - which also meant loading up my cameraS, and all my lenses...which by the end, equalled two bags of just camera stuff! Aw man! When I have babies...LOOK OUT!
We finally get there, and I swear there is anxiety in the place. Sherri tells them to start warming up...and then soon after it begins:
Line the dogs up for the sit-stay while still in the room..this is the point where I screw up... While Pugs is doing the sit stay, I peer around the corner to snap a picture..just then, his focus is distracted and he stops concentrating and takes a little crawling step to my direction...oh dear! POINTS LOST! After that, MarcAnto needed to correct him one more time - but this wasn't me...I put the camera down and HID after the first mishap!
This is Pugs as his attention sways
Then was the down stay while they left the room for 3 minutes. Pugsley was PERFECT!!!! Then, the hard times happen.... one by one, they had to walk the dogs off leash with only their voice commands and hand movements as their guide, back and forth, turn, stay, down, figure 8 around the posts, stay while a stranger pets you etc... heart was beating SOOOOO fast...SOOOO scary! I truly truly didn't think Pugsley could do it...but I swear, it was the fear and anxiety within the room that just kept the WHOLE graduating class on par! It was awesome!!! He walked and ran and crawled (walked slowly) based on Marc's voice commands. He sat, lay down and stay. And most fantastically, he CAME!!!! He rarely comes!!!! By the end of it, Pugsley got some great praise and almost graduated second! He scored 194, the second place scored 194.5! YAY to my boy!!!!!
They spelled both Marc and Pugsley's names wrong but...ehhh
See His Report Card?Nice, Great, Well Done; and Fantastic!
So we then get home, I go straight to the comp to download all my pics and boast about my boy! And to my surprise guess what I found? You see, this is a camera that I don't use often because I upgraded and have been using the other one since. So when I uploaded the images from this memory card I found a little treasure of lost Milo (and Pugsley) pictures!!! Awww..that was such a good end to such a roller coaster day. Sad about Milo, scared for Pugsley, happy for Pugsley, proud of Pugsley and then happy and sad that I found the Milo pics!!!! So So nice!
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