There’s this strip of undeveloped land a few blocks from my house. The road it’s next to was built a few years ago to feed into the new elementary school down at the end of the road, so there’s only traffic on it during school pickup and drop-off hours. On one side it’s all fencing for the backs of the houses on the next street over, and on the street side there’s a drainage ditch which doesn’t get mowed when the rest of the strip does, so it’s all tall reeds other such plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been using it as an off-leash run for the dogs whenever it’s freshly mowed for a few years, but I hadn’t yet let Artagan run there off-leash. At first because I didn’t trust his recall yet, and more recently because the fencing the first fifty meters or so, which is just a divider before the houses start and has a much busier street on the other side, had been falling down, and I didn’t want to chance either of the dogs heading that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But today I saw that that whole strip of fencing has been replaced, so he got his first chance to run off leash and he did such a good job! We practiced some recalls and he jogged right up to me and let me grab him for some congratulatory scritches despite all the intriguing sniffs he’d been sniffing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course now he needs a thorough brushing because he picked up all manner of burrs and seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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