I am so tired tonight. I did a lot of heavy lifting and moving around today; after I already got in an hour of yoga before work. So please forgive me if my sleepy grammar decline creeps in to this post.
Tonight, after work, I was on a mission to find an airline that will ship my dogs. There is only one choice for getting them out of Puerto Rico and it isn't cheap. For my two dogs, it's about the equivalent of shipping all my stuff back home. It's crazy.
Not surprisingly, I'm not happy at all with what I found out at American Airlines. After having them kick my husband (at the time, fiance) off a flight, because they overbooked, and screwing up our pre-wedding schedule (thanks for the extra fee of rushing our marriage lisence). They also were completely rude when I called them to try and figure our what hotel they put him in over night. Then I found out, they made him SHARE A ROOM WITH ANOTHER FEMALE passenger that had also been booted from the flight (for the same reason). Like seriously American Airlines? You overbook your flights, kick people off flights, then make them share a room with a stranger?!? On top of that, you are going to add breed restrictions to the pets that you will ship! My pitbulls are probably nicer than a large percentage of the USA. Please, my boys are good. And I plan on giving them valerian before they fly so they are calm and pretty much passed out the entire flight. My deaf pit bull would probably sleep without any valerian and be fine; however, I'd like to get both of them here in a calm, peaceful state so they don't associate being here with any possible trauma or stress they may have experienced in flight.
So yes, another negative to American Airlines. I will never, ever, ever fly their airline ever. Just no.
We got our new running belt yesterday: Ruffwear Omnijore Joring System. So today we tested it out. Titus and I got to take it out on a run and it worked out fantastic. It is a thick belt that secures around the waist and has additional straps that secure around each leg. I purchased the waist belt that is part of a system that can be used for dogs to pull you on skis, etc. I am interested in trying it with roller blades this summer. The towline is in the front and lets the dog go to either side or straight ahead. It gives Titus freedom to move from side to side but I can control the length of the towline. It took a little getting used to the way it felt on my low back but the awkwardness subsided as we got used to the new belt and system. Titus was running while I was walking during our warm up (so he was somewhat running in place). Normally, that would nearly pull me off my feet, but this belt worked great for keeping me on my feet despite him pulling on the line. 
I have a light weight chain that I clip onto the towline and then onto Titus. It also worked well when I took all three dogs out. I used the same line and attached it to my leash splitter. I was able to take all dogs out at once. They did well, only getting tangled a few times. The belt helps disperse their pull across my body. They saw a squirrel (they are new to Wisconsin and non-tropical animals) so they were pulling to go check out this new creature. This waist belt was so worth the extra money, especially when you have large dogs...and want to walk/run more than one of them at the same time. I love burning off all their extra energy. Snoozing dogs make me a happy dog mom...it means they aren't chewing anything to pieces :)
