[Kitsa]

Yeah, I try to take that information in and use it. The big problem right now is that she's not bad-intentioned, and she's very smart, but she's still young and flighty. She'll obey when she feels like it, not when you want her to. The woman at the obedience school said she had a border collie like that...smart but bored, so they like to raise hell wherever they can. Took until she was almost 3 to settle down a little.

Humans are the same way, really. Most of the hellraisers I know are just smart and bored.

Anyway, she's at a stage where she's hard to control, between my spinal problems and the pregnancy thing, and I don't want her to be a danger to a baby. She has to get through this obedience training before we can proceed to her official service training, and I think nothing much is going to happen until she decides to settle down.