Leslie and Halas's Blog – November 2011 Archive (2)

My mom has had Barley for almost 3 weeks now.  He's had all of his shots, been groomed, and been neutered.  He's spent a lot of time with Halas, and they are getting along great.  Halas loves getting Barley to chase him around, and they take turns stealing toys from each other.  I figured Halas would have an influence on Barley, but I think Barley is having an influence on Halas, too.  Barley is either making Halas more brave, or Halas just doesn't want anyone to think that Barley can do…

In October, Halas and I went to a huge flyball tournament in Indianapolis.  Besides ducking out because he's afraid of another collision, he also ran very slowly.  He was really apprehensive, but also tired.  So we got as many positive things out of the weekend as we could, and we worked on a plan going forward.

For the next few weeks, we worked a lot on his drive.  He was apprehensive to leave me to run to the box, so he was running really slowly towards the box.  His speed coming…