So this is a photo from Alfie's last agility class at Zoomies! It was his very first class off leash and I have to say that I have never been so impressed with a dog before! He is so eager to please and so enthusiastic about agility that he almost seems like a different dog on the course! He's been steadily picking up speed as he's becoming more and more confident with the various pieces of equipment. This will be awesome down the line, but it definitely means I will need to work extras hard to keep up with the little guy! You would not believe how fast he can run! Ha ha!

We also went to a Halloween event for dogs and their owners at the local Bosley's along with our own party this weekend so you could say it was an Alf-tastic two days! 

I'll post some more photos this week and you can definitely expect some videos coming up soon!

Have a great start to your week everyone!

So we've now had two agility classes and are looking forward to our third one tomorrow afternoon!

Alfie has been absolutely amazing! We have had no problems with any of the equipment so far and he is picking it up faster than I ever thought possible!

So far we have tried everything but the teeter. He hasn't shown any fear of any of the pieces of equipment so far which has been really nice!  He even went through the tunnel on his first try without too much help! After two tries now he just powers clean through them!

OH! Before I forget! Last night we met another Chinese Crested and Al was so pumped! It was really cute! The more Chinese Cresteds I meet the more of the breed I see in Al! They are pretty rad little dogs for sure!

Alfie's stomach has still been a little upset over the last month, but we seem to have sorted it out now. He is back to dry kibble only but the big change is we are leaving his food out all for him to eat whenever he wants now. This seems to have cleared up all his anxiety around his food which is AMAZING since now he is finally eating a proper daily portion of food! Hopefully this will mean he puts on a little more weight as well! With all of the walking, running and agility we've been doing he doesn't seem to keep weight on, but the muscle is definitely starting to build a bit though! I've noticed it in his legs mostly. Plus his coat is starting to look a little thicker and glossier (I'll thank the Blue Buffalo food for that).

Well! All in all, Al is fitting in with the family really well and I am so grateful that I get to be his forever home!

Now now Al you know you aren't supposed to be jumping up on people... He he...

So I thought I would drop in and give a quick progress report on how Al has been doing!

It was looking a little grim there for a while, but with patience, LOTS of exercise and crate training him again from scratch he now makes no noise at all during the day! Not a peep! He's been consistent too! It's been really nice knowing that he's feeling happy enough to just relax during the day when I'm at work.

We had a little hiccup though last week when Al got really sick and we had to take him to the vet. He had bloody diarrhea and I was really scared that something serious was wrong. Good news though, everything is fine and it was just a reaction to a different flavour of canned food we switched too. Turns out he dislikes lamb as much as I do, who knew? He he... (I'm actually a vegetarian now, but when I did try it that one time I got pretty sick.)

ALSO! Very exciting news! We've signed up for our agility classes starting on Sept 22nd! We are really pumped! I've been working with Al and the one jump that I have and he is a natural! I can't believe how high he clears the ten inch jump!

The only other change that we made was he now sleeps in our room on either his chair (with loads of blankets and pillows) or under my arm in bed (which he does in the middle of the night without waking me up so in the morning I have a little pup under the covers with me haha).

All in all he is such a good boy and I love him to pieces!

I thought it might be fun to share one of Lucky's old agility videos! She's such a good girl! I really miss having her around.