Between stresses at work and the crap that went up today, I
am feeling a little overwhelmed. Life seems to pile on stressors all at once.
Today I walked Zoey and two of my clients. I had Zo and Duke off leash as I always
do. They come back (for the most park, Duke can be a stubborn dick sometimes)
so I don’t worry about them too much. Besides if I see a dog or another person,
I call in my beasts and leash them up if the person doesn’t seem to confident.
I have no problem with that. While on my walk my boss calls me and says that a
training course that I had considered previously was underway right now (The
first day was Tuesday) and that he spoke to the trainer and she said she can
have me start right away. What! Now, this course is to become a certified dog
trainer. I had considered this in the past but with some client experience I found
it overly frustrating as people don’t like to listen when they ask for
instruction regarding their dogs. While on the phone negotiating with my boss,
an animal control van honks and roars up. She tells me I need to leash up my
dogs. Today happens to be the only day I haven’t brought extra leashes I normally
hang around my neck. I said sorry and that I was headed right around the corner
to a clients house to drop off the dog (A lie, whoops) she lets me off but
tells me the fine is $200 per offleash dog. Fuck. I can totally respect people
not wanting off leash dogs running around everywhere because some dogs on leash
aren’t good with others but this trail has been my little haven for the last
year. Ugh. I was lucky but the woman parked her van and looked like she was
ready to wait for me to go to this mystery house and drop off my off leash
dogs. I ducked through the trail and out
of site and ended up waiting along the river for 40 minutes while I waited for
her to leave. Another dog walker notified me that she was gone and I got to
head back.
I really wasn’t feeling this dog training thing but I spoke
with Corey and we ran through a list of pros and cons regarding it. I figured
that I wanted to do this anyway to get my certification. If we were ever to run
a daycare it would be valuable to have that certification and a draw to our
facility. Clients love the fact when I tell that we are trained in pet first
aid. I have had potential clients light up when I tell them that the owner is a
certified dog trainer. People dig it. That and if we want to be successful I think
learning a few things would be helpful. I could finally say I’ve accomplished
some big schooling.
I guess the overwhelming feeling is that in less than 6 hours
I went from being kinda carefree to BAM schools in session starting Friday. It
will be a process but its over in 8 weeks!
The way I see it is, I can run puppy classes (hopefully with the girls
if they want to get their training done too!!) and take it easy, run at my own
pace. Then eventually when I am older, I can do training as a hobby maybe. In
any case the extra money I can get from puppy classes will be so helpful. Wish
me luck!
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