Tringa turned 2 last month. Traditionally, 2 years old would mark the milestone at which dog owners would have their dogs’ hips x-rayed to be evaluated by Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. Most people doing this would be those interesting in breeding their dog. Many breeders ask their puppy owners to do this even if they’re [...]
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Hips Revisited
Posted in Leonberger, dog training, life, pets, tagged dogs, life, PennHip, pets on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holiday Photo Tips
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, photography, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds, pet photography on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our house around this time of year we start thinking about taking a family photo for our holiday newsletter. Subjects in the photo are varying numbers of dogs, depending on the year (the cat always seems to have good excuses for not being in the photo) and us most years. Some years we have [...]
RePoe 8 Weeks
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds, pets on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came home from a lesson Thursday night to find a tri-colored dog curled up on the bed next to Mark. Not a thing to get excited about usually. Seda hangs out with her “dad” like that a lot.
The factor making this event exciting was the dog was a longer haired tri-colored dog named REPOE! [...]
RePoe 7
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, tagged dog behavior, dog training, Montana English Shepherds, pets on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s coming up on 7 weeks since RePoe entered our lives. In the last couple weeks, we’ve been making larger steps towards normalcy. They’re still tiny compared to dog with good beginnings, but they’re big in RePoe’s mind.
He’s a dog who’s spent most of his life in a box. He’s content to stay in his [...]
RePoe Day 30
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is day 30 of RePoe coming to foster with us.
In the last month, his life has changed dramatically. Ours has too.
He started out shutting down if Mark or I touched him. He passively allowed us to do so, but he mentally checked out -a sad surrender as someone else described it.
We did some exercises [...]
Expanding the Comfort Zone
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds, pets on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RePoe’s been coming along slowly but steadily. We’ve been happy with the progress. It’s being measured, as someone well aptly put: glacially. To us, though, it’s progress and we’re happy to see it.
We make progress forward and slip backwards some then make more progress forward again. It’s the way of dogs like these.
At some point [...]
RePoe’s First Play Date
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds, pets on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RePoe had a play date on Sunday. I’m sure it was the first in his entire life.
We had Ripple and her owner, Kerry, come for a private play session at the training center.
RePoe was mildly interested in Ripple, but not much. Ripple loves coming to “school” so she took it all in stride. As long [...]
Another Big Step
Posted in dog training, dogs, pets, tagged dog behavior, dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
RePoe wanted to follow me today in the house today with no lead. No hiding. He came up the stairs and stood at the gate while everyone else ate supper. He stayed on the landing so I fed him there (the first time he ate outside of his crate) and stayed there when he had [...]
Scratching the Surface
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, pets, tagged dog training, Montana English Shepherds, NESR, pets on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been 12 days since our English shepherd foster arrived. I’ve been gone for 5 of them, leaving Mark to handle him. He’s done a great job.
RePoe has made some progress. He’s sleeping thru the entire night with no barking or rustling about. He’s sitting or standing in his crate while we leash him up. [...]
Repo
Posted in dog training, dogs, life, tagged dog training, dogs, Montana English Shepherds, NESR on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I met him Thursday, Sept 10th. A small, bright-eyed bundle of fur trying his best to plaster himself to the back of his travel crate while avoiding direct eye contact and being as doggy polite as he could be.
He’d started out the day before many states west of here in a life very different from [...]
