Last night was the first night of Bandit's "Agility for Fun" class. If you're
not familiar with agility, it's basically a dog "sport" where they run this obstacle course, full
of jumps, tunnels, teeters, weave poles, and other things. Border Collies are pretty predominant
in agility, since they're usually very athletic.
The class was pretty fun - we got to try jumps (small ones), a tunnel, a tire
jump, and some weave poles. Bandit surprisingly did everything, even the tunnel, which I was
sure he wasn't going to go through. But he almost went through even before I got to the other
end to call him. On one of the jumps, he went over easily, and the instructor joked, "he's a
border collie, right? See, that's almost like cheating." Yeah, well she doesn't know about
our particular little klutz.
After we got home, I let Bandit in the house and he started to race up the
stairs. He got to the first landing and stumbled on his feet and went face-first into the
stairs. That's our little athlete! He has to be the clumsiest border collie ever.
This morning, as I was getting ready for work, Bandit was chasing his tail.
He'd grab it, then start walking around sideways all over the room while holding his tail in his
mouth. He even managed to pull out a bunch of tail fur, which he promptly ate, of course. I'm
really about to ask the vet if there's anything we can do about this, because he eats EVERYTHING.
Last night I finished the book Deepali gave me for my birthday, The DaVinci
Code. It was a pretty good book, I think I finished it in 3 days. It's probably the first
book I've actually finished in years. I think I have to go and reread the last couple of
chapters though, because I was kind of racing through them to find out what was going to happen
at the end.
Anyways, I was going to write more, but I'm going to meet Marc for dinner now before my class, so I have to run. Maybe next time! Well, never mind, Marc just
cancelled on me, because something came up at work (again). However, now I'm feeling too lazy
to write anymore, so I'm just going to run out now and grab some food before class.
Talk about this in the forums!