You know, I haven’t told Gustavo his brain is affected ammonialy hepatatic encephalapthetically due to his microvascular weirdo mitten thumbed all over the place liver. I just mostly tell him stuff like how awesome he is. And that he’s going in an AKC trial this weekend.

Without the other dogs. That’s right. No Otterpop, no Ruby. They’re going to wait in the car. Gustavo is the only member of Team Small Dog who is now a card carrying member of the American Kennel Club.

We are going to test those AKC waters on Sunday in Novice A JWW and Novice A Standard. Yep. We are now someone who who abbreviates JWW. Jesus Wearing Wetsuit. Jehovah’s Witness Waterboarding. Jelly With Worms. Just What Wiggles.

I doubt we’ll do enough AKC to ever worry about it’s holy grail, Double Q. I think you are supposed to make flickering jazz hand fingers by your eyeballs when you say that. Double QQQQQQQ. We’re just all about the in AKC, good enough to be ON the table, no laying down required. Gustavo. Just get up there and don’t get underneath! Let’s make AKC a vortex free zone!

Whatever Gustavo wants to make of this is ok by me. I am trying to be of the zero expectation minset with him from now on. If he can’t run to his leash and lay down before running out of the ring, who the heck cares? If he pops out of his weave poles like he was on Monday in practice because I placed his inexplicably exciting new best friend frisbee at the end of them, so be it. For Gustavo, that’s a good problem to have. Good god, he’s playing with a toy near agility equipment. And good god, it’s helping me re-create problems we have in trials. No surprises anymore from him, no expectations. We are all about in the moment.

I just want to get him in more rings for little baby short days, and see if he can have as good of time at a trial as he has practicing. Zero stress, we are just going to be party people. Novice ring of the AKC trial, here we come!