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 [...]
Archive for the ‘pets’ Category
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 »
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! [...]
As someone who usually has her holiday shopping done by Halloween, I have to say YIKES! This year that’ll be a missed deadline.
To make myself feel better I’m convinced at least I have ideas for people’s Christmas gifts. I just have to make them materialize. In a mere 8 weeks, I might add. Yep. That’s [...]
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 [...]
Six Months
Posted in Leonberger, dogs, life, pets, tagged dogs, pets, life, pet loss, Leonberger, death on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been just a tad over six months since Ky left us.
I still miss him terribly. I feel his absence most in group classes. He had the anchoring energy even out of control dogs responded to. He could practically read my mind and I wouldn’t have to think twice about it. That allowed me to [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
NESR Montana Rescue
Posted in dogs, life, pets, tagged dogs, life, Montana English Shepherds, NESR, pets on August 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The English shepherd is a traditional American farm dog, selected for hundreds of years to work stock, protect his master, his family, his property and animals, hunt game, dispatch pests, and do any job that his master might find for him. They have not been selected to be show dogs or to live in kennels. [...]
