Sound Habituation Starts with Classical Music
Don’t worry, we will Country On and Rock On later…
Puppies .played by and napped by a little classical sounds today. Turn up sound!
Well, playtime kinda drowning out the “soothing” music.
Puppies .played by and napped by a little classical sounds today. Turn up sound!
Well, playtime kinda drowning out the “soothing” music.
1st visit to vet for tail docking, dew claws removed…then a day to chill Wednesday morning at 8 am was their first appointment to the vet we hope they never remember. The little ones didn’t mind the gentle look over by Dr. Hall, but it was also time to dock their tails and remove the…
T Last weekend, we removed the whelping box and created a bigger area for Jazz and the pups. This not only allowed more room for Jazz to nurse her growing 11 babes, it allowed for the next steps in their development. The sleep area is half heated still with heating mats and the other half…
AND…..Can’t resist the cute sleeping puppies. Today is Day 15 of the Early Neuro Stimulation, with tomorrow being the last day of this series of NeoNatal exercise. We filmed Grey Boy going through the whole routine, but he is an example of how well all of them go through this series of stimuli with complete…
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…
This was our last chance to give the puppies an exposure to something totally new before they start going home to their humans so we decided to introduce them to my horse, T-Bone. 🙂
How many adults and momma dogs does it take to group photograph 11 puppies? Apparently more than what we came with….