Obedience School Graduates

May 2007 – Well, our lives seem to pretty much be back to normal. We enrolled the hounds in basic obedience classes and all three passed with flying colors. Scout and Bandit graduated from Family Dog Class at the tail end of April and Daisy graduated from her Puppy/Beginners Class on May 12th. We decided to enroll the spotted hounds in obedience courses so that we would be better able to handle them during our two week road trip to Minnesota. On our trip, we visited everything there was to see between New Mexico and Minnesota, including the Great Sand Dunes in Alamosa, Colorado and Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands in South Dakota. While at Mt. Rushmore, the hounds met Monique Ziolkowski, the daughter of self-taught Crazy Horse sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who stopped to introduce herself after she and her sister recognized our black and white pack from having visited the Crazy Horse Memorial earlier in the day. Ms. Ziolkowski spoke with us for quite a few minutes and then graciously thanked us for visiting her home and wished us well on our journey. May was an extremely exciting month and, as you might expect, there’s really no shortage of photos for the month of May.