They are still quite untrained. While they behave fairly well if I have their leashes, they just want to run and tug if anyone else is taking them. They are also much worse when they are both out at the same time. Either one of them starts whining if she sees her sister ahead of her. In the end, I've been either taking one dog at a time or I literally have my hands full. I do feel that they are already getting a bit better.
Today, the walk required the use of my waterproof hiking boots. The road is currently covered in inches of slush and water as the temperatures have been in the mid forties during the day. It made for some questionable footing, but thankfully the dogs weren't tugging on me when we went through the slippery spots. In fact, the only place that they really wanted to tug was when they found relatively fresh moose droppings (they weren't there yesterday) off the side of the road.
The entire family was out on the walk today. Connor, who is often out with me on these adventures, commented on the irony that we seemed to be outside walking more now that there's a quarantine. He's not wrong. Not having to run around to events every afternoon and evening has really freed up time to do things like this.
I am tremendously grateful that I live in an area that we can appreciate such opportunities.