My fellow trainer and new friend Nancy of
A Dog's Life blog has tagged me in a Crazy 8 challenge. This tag asks me to come up with and share 8 little known facts and tidbits my readers do not already know about me.
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1) When I was a young teen I wanted to be a nun. Turns out not being Catholic was a great hinderance to the plan.
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2) After high school I wanted to study music and become a member of an orchestra had college been an affordable option for me. I played Tenor sax and had a heavy interest in the flute. Unfortunatly I lacked talent for any hope of a scholarship.
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3) I started flute lessons 2 years ago. It's never to late to learn and to do what you love. (I still lack talent however.)
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4) After I got home from my time in the military I looked into becoming a dental technician. I couldn't afford the schooling. (which worked out much better for me in the long run in my opinion)
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5) I was horse crazy as a kid and rode my bike miles to volunteer at a horse for hire riding stable to get free riding. I learned to ride out of books. I still love horses and would love to take carriage driving lessons one day.
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6) I have a wooden spike signed by James Marsters. He played the vampire "Spike" on the Buffy and Angel series. I also own a Harry Potter time turner necklace and a Star Trek engineering uniform with rank insignia I bought at a ST convention. Yes I am the uber dork you always read about.
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7) I met my husband in jail. He was a police officer, I was a corrections officer. We are an excellent pair.
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8) My favorite piece of furniture is my cherry wood Jensen Tina 2 double treadle spinning wheel.
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Not all that exciting but there you have it. Trainers are people too! I have been out of the loop so long and am behind in my blog reading so I am not going to tag anyone specifically. (even though I am supposed to tag 8 other bloggers) If you read this and want to participate feel free. You may say you were tagged by me.
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Check out the cute photo ad I came across.
Is it not just to adorable? It is for a clicker training apprentice program. While I am not specificly a clicker trainer myself, I am definately a fan of Karen Pryor. Her principles are the foundation of all current positive method training today. Great photo!
Getting some love. Her beautiful collar and leash are from http://www.ifitbarks.com/ I have it on good authority that The Loyal Biscuit (local) has placed an order so go check them out. 
This is her housemate Eddie. The tail never stopped.
And here is Max. Max is a big boy that is learning not to beat up on his smaller pack mates.
For anyone with so called "bad breeds" I highly recommend the book "The pitbull placebo ~ The media, myths and politics of canine aggression" by Karen Delise. It has some great information to make debating breed issues easier. http://www.dogwise.com/itemdetails.cfm?ID=DEG817
And here is my handsome boy Jack with a family friend affectionatly known as our second daughter. He likes hanging on the couch with the girls given the chance.
