A quick Juneau update …
Juneau has attended two clicker-training sessions. Lots of clicks. Lots of treats. But they have not gotten her to “come here” or “lay down (on command, that is).”
She does “sit” and “stay” with hardly any instruction or reward; probably because “stay” is her normal state of being indoors.
Food does not really motivate Juneau, adding to the challenge of clicker-training her. We went with steak and chicken leftovers for her first class. But my hands got so greasy, I could barely open the car door to go home. And I found myself looking over my shoulder to make sure the other dogs in the class weren’t trailing me.
We went with hot dogs for her second class. Didn't seem as greasy, but Juneau seemed to lose her taste for them about 45 minutes into the hour-long class. She likes steak.

On the home front, a tag team was painstakingly pieced together so that Juneau would not be alone and in her crate for more than 3 ½ hours in the morning and 2 ½ hours in the afternoon. I get up at 5:30 a.m. and run Juneau in the woods to tire her out on days she must be crated. But my son Tom’s changing work schedule is upsetting The System. Which means tomorrow Juneau will be dropped off at Doggie Day Care. The cost: $26 a day.
The facility is within a mile of my house, so the drop-off is convenient. But it is 20 miles from The Sun, so mad dashes may be necessary to retrieve Juneau before the place closes at 6:30 p.m. Otherwise, Juneau gets kenneled there for the night at an additional charge of $50. And I will not get any sleep knowing she is not in her crate in the kitchen, but a mile down the road wondering why I didn't pick her up.
As the above pictures show, though, Juneau isn’t as keen on her crate now that she can leap in a single bound onto my half of the bed. This shows her Sunday night while I was in the living room watching the Academy Awards. As soon as “Slumdog Millionaire” was announced as Best Picture, I clicked off the TV and carried Juneau to her crate, where she whined about her suddenly cramped accommodations.