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I'm back.  Blogger changed something this past week and I couldn't figure out how to post on my blog.  My friend, Lorraine, had to tell me what to do.  

Today, I enrolled Blossom in obedience school.  There are so many really cool classes for dogs to take now but she has to start out in Obedience 1.  I am looking forward to signing her up for agility classes next.  There is also a really neat class called Scent Discrimination where they teach you how to train your dog to find certain objects.  I thought it would be a great idea to teach Blossom how to find my cell phone, or the remote, until my friend Liz mentioned that I'd have to train her not to eat the items when she found them.  

Blossom has had 2 really good days of not eating us out of house and home.  We came home Thursday to this:

Apparently, Blossom thought that the chicken on the cover of my Cooking Light magazine was real.  She demolished that magazine along with Scott's shoe and a clothes hanger.  

Blossom also doesn't think much of  the Fall line at J Jill because she tore up the catalog while I was in the shower Friday morning. 

I asked Blossom to please let me sleep late on Saturday morning and she obliged.  Unfortunately, she kept herself busy with a pair of dress shoes that she must have stolen out of my closet. 

 

Thankfully the shoes were old and I had been debating on whether or not to throw them out.  

You would think that Blossom spends her whole day chewing and tearing stuff up but it only takes her a few minutes to shred pretty much anything!  Now that we are realizing where she goes to get these items, we are learning how to keep things put away.  I read that dogs love to chew things with "their people's" scent on it.  It is suggested that when you buy them a chew toy, you should put it in your clothes hamper for a few days until it smells like you.  

I'm so proud of my incredibly smart husband.  He spent part of Sunday afternoon burying brick pavers by our garage door so that Blossom (and everyone else) doesn't get muddy when she steps outside.  

Enough about Blossom.  Greta is the good one. 

She's sitting behind me in that same spot right now.