our little (furry) girl

i took wombat to the creek yesterday morning (i've been trying to do that at least once a week for a couple weeks now). there's a spot where i can get down the bank and sit on the edge and try to coax (read: pull on the lead and praise her lots) her in without me ending up in the creek. usually it takes a lot of pulling and several tries to get more than a couple toes wet. yesterday i got down to my spot and called her down. she came down and put her front paws in. next thing i know she's standing in the middle of the creek up to her belly in water!!! yea wombat! she stood there for a minute. a group of ducks (what would you call that-- its not a herd or a gaggle....?) was sitting on the bank right across from us. i pulled a bit on wombats lead so she wouldn't forget she was on lead and yank me into the water trying to get the ducks (pigeons seem to be the only bird she really in interested in chasing and that didn't start until we'd had her a few weeks. not sure what we did to encourage that behaviour). she just looked at the ducks and did her own thing and then came back out of the water. soooooo good! she's still doing really crap around other dogs. as long as they're far away and don't look like cats its ok. just if they get near us we've got problems..... at least she's muzzled (but if another dog got aggressive at her cuz she's being stupid she would be pretty defenceless).