Just thought I'd bring a lighter note into the "conversations" of the past couple of days
Have just had the most marvelous training session with Ski, my young Lab. As you all know we are in the middle of a fairly horrific drought so Ski's exposure to water work has been very limited.
Left work and went up the local oval, which is huge and very dog friendly. Walked out to the back two ovals and noticed heaps and heaps of birds (unfortunately not the ones that can be retrieved). As I got closer I could see what looked like, but my eyes could have been deceiving me, a massive expanse of water. My eyes weren't deceiving me, there was a huge amount of water. A burst water pipe had covered the entire oval.
Having had it drilled into me by He Who Shall Not Be Named to take the opportunity to expose my dog to new concepts I bit the bullet (so to speak) waded out in my work shoes nearly to the ankles in the water to set up some exercises for Ski.
End result she passed the splashing water surrounded by birds to retrieve a very boring dummy very well. Recovery of my work shoes will be known in the next 24 hours.
Kate
p.s after I'd finished training I decided to do the right thing and popped into the council depot to let them know of the problem
