Weight Watchers: My Dogs Love It!

  About a month ago, I woke up at 2:00am and thought, "Get your fat *ss back to Weight Watchers and get back into shape." And seven hours later, I walked into a meeting and joined. I am very tough with myself in the middle of the night. As of yesterday, I've lost 10 pounds and I feel great.
  My dogs are loving it, too, because on the WW program, I can earn "activity points" and exchange them for food (or a glass of wine, in my case). I've been running for 30 minutes, three days per week. On the other days, I am walking the dogs. I can get 4 activity points (equal to a glass of wine) for walking 90 minutes. I split this into two sessions, with different sets of dogs. I used to walk them for about a half hour, so this is significantly more exercise for them too. An added bonus is the wear on their tonails!
  I even took Cozy to run with me on Monday, to the dog park at Palmer Park. It's a little stressful for me, because all the dogs are off-leash and they are ALL bigger than Cozy, but it went well.

 On Tuesday morning, I took the three Highlanders (Cozy, Wager, and Jackson) to Lake George for a long hike. There's a Scottie in this shot, in the trees on the left. They are good about staying within earshot. Wager even scared up a bunny and chased it for a couple of minutes.

Cozy is smart and stays on the trail so she doesn't have to fight the snow. In the deep spots, she follows in my steps.

  The next day, all three dogs were exhausted, and Wager was limping a little. I suspect he over-did the rabbit hunting. He limped a short time on our on-leash walk today, so I'll continue to keep an eye on him.

  Last weekend, we competed at the Poodle Club trials in Castle Rock. The weather was perfect for crating in the car (cold and sunny). The courses were fun. Cozy would have been 4/4 except that I was an idiot and sent her off course in JWW on Sunday. She got QQ #18 on Saturday. I really tried to stay with her visually.  

   Jackson took 4th out of 23 dogs in JWW on Saturday. It was a nice run. In standard, he flew off the UP ramp of the dogwalk. The rubber surface was bouncy and surprised him. He continues to have problems with popping out of the weaves on uneven terrain- such as when the big dogs run first and dig deep divots in the weaves. My plan is to take my weaves to the local school and set them up in the sand under the playground. It's a terrible surface for agility!

  Coming up is our only free weekend in January. Besides weaving at school, I'm going to set the grooming table up and take some fur off of some dogs. And sneak in some reading: "This Body Of Death" by Elizabeth George. I love Inspector Lynley!