As for the coming year, I want to continue teaching Arwen. She's scary smart and I know I don't challenge her enough, or work on just teaching and/or reinforcing basic obedience skills. The plan is to find her a doggy companion come spring. I would love to have commands like come, leash/harness, stand, mat (or bed, place, etc) taught and fairly solid by then. She is pretty solid on sit, down, paw/other paw, etc. Leave it and stay/wait need A LOT of work, lol. OK, so we have a lot of lofty goals by late spring, lol!

She is actually doing pretty well w/ the potty training, finally. That can be iffy if it's pouring rain or super cold (both issues the last couple of weeks. And she gets really bothered by the snow pilling up between her toes. That didn't seem to bother her as much last year, so not sure if she has more fur between her pads and toes this year, or if having Misty out there last winter, distracted her. I do think the biggest hindrance to house training had been Misty, who just didn't care if she pottied in the house, on the deck, in a walk way, etc.