Yesterday we tried out first outing on the bike (Ryuk's harness fits her if I make it as small as possible).....no fear of bikes, pulls like an ox. She's not in shape but the one mile "test jog" I took her out on was full tilt, I didn't pedal, and her line didn't go slack ONCE....

I'm going to run her with Ryuk today on the track , no neckline (I'm not entirely confident in her ability to not try and start a fight which is why I'm not using Gamble who'd technically be a better gentler teacher...he's not yet confident enough to turn her if she objects) To see if there is any chance she can work with another dog.

While I don't really see her doing well in a team setting and she probably doesn't have the conformation to be effective with larger dogs, we have a lot of recreational mushers in this area who just keep a dog or two for bikejoring

How did she go with Ryuk?

She did GREAT with Ryuk and they both match pace nicely together.

Yesterday I did all three, Ryuk next to Gamble, Soup in lead but staggered so that Gamble could turn her if needed. My line set-up wasn't great as I'm not designed for three dogs but it did work and there was no snarking or fighting.

Today I paired her up with Gamble as Ryuk acted like a brat during his solo run and lost harness privileges (made him do his entire run with the bike in collar at a heel, he's been trying to bring me his harness and sulking since lol XD) They had a bit of trouble with picking a gait which I sort of expected considering Gamble can trot at the pace most dogs lope and Soup has two speeds ("run your paws off" and "running on fumes but still running"). Her sprint/lope is to fast for his trot, his lope is WAY to fast a speed to control in a two dog hook-up on a bike especially with two younger dogs. However they were committed to working together so it was a fun ride.

Her marker training has also gone very nicely....she now practically backflips if you get out the clicker. We've primarily doing freeshaping with a bit of lure-and-mark work trying to build muscle memory for things like spinning and twirling which can later be used for a finish into heel position or turns. She's also still trying to learn to down, she "gets" the command now but I've never seen a dog so conformationally designed to NOT be able to down straight. She's trying so hard but geesh, she's worse than a greyhound. She's a joy to marker train, EXTREMELY food motivated and has been learning to offer good behavior with toy rewards.

Crate training is still....well, we're trying. She's no longer a crate breaker, and she DOES shut up much quicker but the anxiety is still there (she drools). It doesn't help that there is not a toy in the world I can leave her with. She's worst than Ryuk was as a puppy. She's crunched up antlers, ripped apart a large black kong, and ripped up a starmark pickle pocket. I don't have any extra money right now but I'm considering investing in a gonuts toy, she's really good at only chewing toys but there is not a toy I can find she can't murder, and I have no idea where she's hiding her jaw muscles...she doesn't even have the ACD smile...she's got a husky grin, no muscle to be seen. I checked her teeth for sharp edges, nothing.

A homeless persons dog would totally explain a bunch of the behaviors that you report here. Those dogs typically fall asleep as soon as the owner stops moving despite distractions. I have seen them sleep in the waiting room at the vet office. They also tend to be "guardy" around their person and persons things.
I think that's super perceptive of you to have thought of that. Perhaps the person, without money, turned the dog into the shelter for Rx after it was injured.

Soup got spayed today!

It er....well considering the conditions it went pretty well. As suspected (based on the nipple changes), then not suspected (when she didn't balloon up) she WAS in fact pregnant...sort of...she was carrying one dead mummified deformed fetus monster, and some not mummified partially absorbed fetus monsters. I'm so sad they disposed of them before I could see them, I wanted to jar and preserve the mummified one.

She's sleepy and groggy and snuggled in a pile of blankets. Her resistance to everything elizabethan collar is going to get old quickly, she's already figured out how to weaponize it and get it off when ramming me in the ankle with it stops being fun.... I can't trust her alone in a crate, we've gotten pretty good crate training at this point but she still can't have bedding and left to her own devices I'm concerned she'll panic and rip stitches. Soooooo, it looks like I'll be home for a few days, which isn't that bad as I'm preparing for a convention anyway. While I'm at the con I have a trainer friend of mine who will be watching both Soup and Willow for me

I hope she recovers well! I wonder how that was affecting her and if her personality is going to change a bit now? Poor girl with monster puppies inside

Poor girl, indeed. I'm just glad that Jamie came into her life.

Lucky pup, hope she continues to recover well.