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Congrats GF, Roo is a star. I have to admit that I am lax (okay that might be an understatement) at practicing our obedience work with the pups. It's just so darn hard to get one out and not the others. DH is no help at all. But that's okay, we'll manage, Nikki still gets it.
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Come on, DD. 10 minutes per dog, and look at the benefit.
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Glad you ran into an instructor who understood his needs, GF!!
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Yes, and it's a shame she was only a visiting instructor. Here's the boy showing off his first graduating ribbon.
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Well done Roo
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whoot whoot Way to go, Roo!
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Congratulations to both you and Roo. I don't blame him for wanting to sample, that's a pretty tasty looking ribbon.
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Thanks, ownedbycats. It might be quite some time before we can earn him another ribbon, but we'll try.
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Coinciding with his shift up into the new class at Obedience today, I am thinking Roo might need to go into a big cage for travelling, and next weekend he'll definitely have to borrow Jarrah's correction collar. Boy, is he growing fast now! Has all bar a couple of his permanent teeth.
Well, he travelled just fine today, because yours truly remembered to open the windows for him. If I forget he starts the drooling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, the Sibe that Roo doesn't like was bought to class by the mother of the girl who owns it and unfortunately it got away from her in the carpark as she was about to leave, took off out into the traffic, ignoring her of course. So, I gave a rousing "Puppy! Puppy!, Puppy!" and, thank God, it came over to my car and I had it cornered seeing my front door was open and there was a car next to mine, and caught it for her. What a relief that Roo was already in the car, or it'd be on! ![]() ![]() One geuss who needs a good comb out? Jarrah looks like a moth eaten carpet now she is dropping coat. LOL. |
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Yes, the Sibe was an accident going somewhere to happen. Horsham is the capital of the Wimmera area so to speak and even on Sundays there is plenty of traffic. It was a case of being in the right place at the right time, and realising what had happened. I had my back turned.I didn't even know the dog's name was Storm but I'd seen the woman with the Sibe, so when I heard her yelling "Storm" I actually thought 'good name for a Sibe', yet when I turned and called him I used 'Puppy!' because most young dogs react so well to it. Even my adult dogs like to be fussed over and called Puppy. LOL.
This pup, Roo, thinks he is the biggest and best stud muffin there is, Barkingdog. Jarrah is in season so he, ummm, practices. ![]() |
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Well, it was a rather wet day at Obedience today (Yay!! we desperately need rain)and consequently some people had gone home, others hadn't even arrived.
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I think my daughter's MIL just adopted a cattle dog mix . They're going to crate train the puppy and I think it will be left in a crate a lot. The MIL said she wanted a mellow dog, if the puppy is part cattle dog will it be mellow when it is full grown? It mixed with some kind of hound dog.
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omd, Barkingdog. If she wanted mellow, I don't think either cattle dog or hound is a good choice...
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I really can't hazard a guess how such a pup would turn out. Golly, like a cattle dog, would it be a good guard; let people into the place but not out; want to heel you as you walk by; be so active you need to find things for it to do, or like a hound, is it going to want to clear out and go hunting? It's not much of a life for any dog to be left in a crate a lot, especially hard on an active dog. I can only pray she gets good advice from someone about its welfare.
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GF, that's a good picture of the two of them. Nikki is as big as Halo now too. Lupa is wider, but shorter. LOL She's like a tank. Roo is looking good!
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I like it myself, DD.
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Ah, those teenage years! LOL
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It does now you mention it.
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I'll have to watch the pups to see how far they bend. I don't think it's that far. But honestly sometimes when they sleep they are so bent and twisted it can't be comfortable. Lupa and Nikki both love chasing their tails, the tails are pretty long and they're easily able to catch them. Of course catching the other dogs tail is waaaaay more fun.
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