Happy Thanksgiving!

My first thanksgiving by myslef! While I haven't been home for thanksgiving in several years, I've always celebrated with roomates/friends. This was the first time just me ( and Cody). I cooked a good meal of pot roast, mashed potatoes, veggies and gravy :) Yum.

I've been doing stuff with Thea, doing some homework, and watching the dog show that has been going on at the racetrack exhibition centre. So I've been quite happy :) Today I watched the herding group, which is of particular interest to me because I plan on getting a German Shepherd (GSD) in the not too distant future (ok a couple years)! It was nice seeing so many GSDs in one place. But I was also taken aback at how awful a few of them looked. The poor dogs were not just walking on their hind feet they were walking on their hind feet as well as almost up to their hocks!! And to watch them move was horrible... Yet another reason NOT to get an american/canadian bred dog... I have totally fallen for the German lines who have dogs that can actually trot and don't have such acute angulation (and many other weak points) and they actually have the old GSD temperment... Here are a few pictures (the awful one is the one on the right in the first picture):




Thea and I have finally begun some canter work, and she seems to have gotten (mostly) out of her reluctance to move forward. We can actually trot for more than one circle! LOL She's getting good at showmanship too, and we've only practised a couple times. She can spin well already... just have to work on setting her feet up square.

Tomorrow we are getting some pictures taken of us :) Hopefully they'll turn out well. I'll be sure to post them!