Our animal lover Maggie has been hooking Nola up to a kick sled, taking her to a place clear of trees, and teaching her to run with it . Nola pulled the other kids James and Caelynn in the sled today Caelynn sitting in the seat, James standing up behind where the person who’s steering is supposed to stand, and I ran next to them becuse neather of them knows how to control her and I don’t think James ever will but I’m pretty sure Caelynn will when she’s older.
Nola’s forgoten most of the comands I taught her last year but that’s my fault becuse I didn’t take her on the dirt road for practice and I still don’t have that PVC dog cart I’ve been asking Dad to help me build for a little over a year now. I’ve gotten Nola to where she’ll run, stay (most of the time), and walk on command and if I tell her to go right she’ll go left. I’m still working on teaching her the difference between left and right 
Where I take her there’s a small hill and she hasn’t gotten the hang of slowing down before she gets to it so the sled doesn’t hit her.
What I really want to do with her is get her a proper sled dog harrness (right now all I have is a normal walking harness with two leashes atached on the sides of the harrness and tied to the two poles that make an L at the front of the sled so the weight’s spread evenly and they don’t slide around on the sled and make it hard to pull) and get her going good by herself this year and find another dog to pull with her next year. They might even be able to take me and james up the sleding hill! I don’t think she can do it by herself. It’ll be interesting but I want to try it.
by Mag