Goals? Or Dreams?

Time to wrap up the year again.  Here are the goals I made last year:

Last year's goals post.

• Grow out and maintain Tibby's full coat - nope!  Didn't happen.  It might this year though - her groomer is moving away.  
• Finish Recallers course - nope!  Didn't happen
• Work with desensitization CDs - again, no not really.
• Get Tibby comfortable in a crate around other dogs - possibly use Lucy for this - I think Tibby made a lot of progress with this one.  Being around other dogs would have been a big step, but she is comfortable in her crate at home and I even crated her for 4 hours when I went to work.  Only once, but still.
• Stay with Tibby overnight in a hotel - Yes!  We did this.  Two nights in a hotel and I never want to do it again.
• Volunteer at a trial - Not yet.  I've tried, but people seem to think it is really weird to volunteer, if you don't have a dog showing.  I only tried at an AKC, maybe I will try USDAA instead.
• Progress to tugging around other dogs - yeah, no.
• Attend a seminar (signed up for Impossible Dogs seminar in Feb.) - yes we did a bunch of seminars - When Pigs Fly, Daisy Peel, Ann Braue and Loretta Mueller.  Not sure that this was a great idea for Tibby with her stress issues.  Might be why she was getting worse and worse this year.
• Attend the Tibetan Terrier Nationals in St. Louis and enter a fun run - uh, yeah no.  maybe 2014???
• Take more online courses - I made this as a goal??  Really checked this one off.  We did a lot of online classes.  Again, not sure if it was good for Tibber, but I learn a lot and it's helping with Dhali's training.
• Pass the CGC test - ha ha ha ha ha, sorry!  That did NOT happen.
• Work more on obedience - nope.
• More clicker training tricks - nope.
• Hike in 2 new state parks - nope.
• Take Tibby swimming - I took her to the beach while Dhali was swimming.  I think that counts.  She's so freaked out by water....yeah the beach counts.
  
  
  So What DID we do all year???  Not sure.   I need to make a 'what happened round up" post.
  
  
  
  
  Don't forget to vote for Dhali!!!  Here's the link All I Got Contest
  He's in 4th place with 6 votes. 
  Thank you to the 5 people who have voted!!

The Seven Questions

Recently a few bloggers passed this 7 post challenge on to me.  I finally did it!

Most Beautiful Post: This was a hard one to choose.  At first I was going to pick a sweet one like Tibby and Catty Friends and Sisters OR L-O-V-E.  But in the end I chose Super Stinky Hiking!!!  Because when Tibby is having a good time it is the most beautiful thing to me.  No matter how stinky she was or how many creepy ticks I picked off of myself.  ewww ticks!

Most Popular Post: Well, by page views and comments the most popular post was a post from last years giveaway.  It was very popular, but only because it was a giveaway ;)
Unfortunately, the most popular posts have also been the most controversial - Tuesday Training has the most comments, Brought Home A New Dog Today has the 2nd most comments and Meet Poppy has the most page views.


My Most Controversial Post(s): I never expected to meet so many wonderful, helpful people (friends) when I started to blog.  Sadly, with the good also comes the bad.  I had to turn the commenting off on my blog for a while, because I was getting a lot of not very nice nasty comments about myself and about Tibby.  Say what you want about me, but leave Tibby alone!!  It all started with Tibby's Photo Shoot - Day 1 and Tibby's New Dresses added more fuel to the fire.  Just for future reference to all readers - I screen the comments.  If they aren't nice, I don't publish them. 

My Most Helpful Post:  Well, judging by the number of people who search for this DIY Fleece Tug must be helpful.

A Post Whose Success Surprised Me: Hands down Frozen 5k 2011.  It doesn't have anything to do with Tibby, but it has a ton of page views and more comments than lots of Tibby filled posts.  My Mom is pretty popular LOL!

A Post That Didn't Get the Attention I Felt It Deserved:  I'm always surprised when anyone reads this blog, but as Tibby's Mom I think every post should be read by everyone!  I think Tibby's Graduation didn't get any attention, because when I wrote it no one was reading Tibby's blog.  There are a whole bunch of posts from when Tibby was a baby that no one read, but that's OK.  It was my version of a baby book for Tibby.

The Post I'm Most Proud Of: This was super-duper hard for me to pick.  I'm proud of Tibby.  Very.  Very.  Proud.  Of.  Tibby.  No matter what!  Even when she is 'bad'.  I was happy that we did this Packages For Pups and I hope we can do it again.  Recently I was very proud of how well behaved Tibby was at the cardiologist's office (thermometer incident aside LOL!) The Results.  I was also very proud of Tibby when we graduated from Silvia Trkman's Puppy Class.  It was a lot of work and we had fun (even though we weren't at the top of the class).  I love my best friend Tibby!  Puppy Class Graduation!

And guess what!!  This is my 400th post!  WOW!!