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…
We are half way to meeting the family who will love us for our forever! But in the meantime…there are new experiences every day and going outside was a definitely a new adventure!
Yesterday’s round of bird exposure and first exposure to unfenced area outside of puppy pen. This time we put the kick cage with a live chucker out in our bigger, unfenced side yard and brought out two pups at a time. Our interest was to see their boldness/independence to explore as well as bird interest,…
It was a busy but rewarding night! Jazz delivered 11 very healthy puppies all weighing between 11.3 ounces to 14.5 ounces- 7 of them weighing in at 13.0+ ounces! There are 5 little girls and 6 little boys. All are eating well with no issues latching on and suckling.
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…