Puppies Meet T-Bone!

Learning to lap up (or bathe in?) puppy formula. Pink and Teal girls with a little after lunch play time. Red girl and Orange boy planning an escape with Yellow boy waiting to see how that goes down. Blue Boy and his cute little butt heading to the sleep nest for a nap. But whoops……

We did the final evaluations on the pups today. The evaluation is really just a continuation from what we have already done. Rather than a chukar wing or a live chukar in a kick cage, I used a dead chukar I had in the freezer for training. Thawed him out for todays session. The objective…

How many adults and momma dogs does it take to group photograph 11 puppies? Apparently more than what we came with….

As we are getting really near to due date, an x-ray was completed to get a more accurate count of expected puppies. Well…vet counted 11. Let the fun begin. Oh, my!

Manding is an exercise from Puppy Culture which is the beginning of teaching a Puppy some positive reinforcement with treats as well as beginning social politeness training (specifically, not jumping up and deMANDING attention or treat).  The MANDING exercise is often done with a clicker and treat.  We don’t do clicker training, so I pair…

Blue Boy: Brittany Country’s Scree Rayo (Scree) Scree is living with his new dad, Darrick, on a family farm in Eastern Washington and is already learning to be an awesome hunter (getting his first practice as soon as he got to his new home on wild pigeons and already demonstrating a great fetch!). Darrick says,…