Grace is our new puppy. She is a golden retriever/Labrador mix. We bought her from people who let their two dogs breed. We chose the quieter puppy. I noticed her dew claws had not been removed. Hmm. Ok, I can live with that, not happily but ok.
We go to the vet, first shots, wormer. OMG! I have never seen so many worms come out of such a small puppy. Round worms. Take her back to the vet in two weeks, hook worms. Worm her again. Our quiet low energy puppy is, lol, not. It's like living with the energizer bunny on a sugar high.
Can we put the worms back in? Lol.
Despite a rocky start we have hit the puppy trifecta! I have heard of very smart puppies. I've had some smart puppies, but she is a very smart puppy. In four week she sits, sits at the door to go potty, down's from a standing position, in, out, beginning of here, crates, and comes to the proper heal position.
She generalizes these commands. Potty training? Well, she has never gone in her crate. But it's going to be a challenge. Should I poop here mom? No! Ops, too late. She also sleeps as long as five hours now through the night which I love.
She needs to fetch. She's a retriever. Throw the ball, she looks at the ball, looks at me; can I have my treat now mom? No. Rinse, repeat. Two weeks later, she will fetch 20 percent of the time-get the ball and bring it almost all the way back for a treat. Sigh. We will start formal training in a week or so.
I also wormed Koda. Koda, she has worms, leave her butt alone. Yeah, like that was going to work. Koda is a 16 month old male standard poodle, and he has suddenly developed selective hearing. He has also reverted to getting in the trash cans, running around the house like a pony on the open plains, and refusing to crate.
Teenagers are such a handful. We got Koda at 9 months. We are his third family. He was mistreated, unknown to us. We paid a premium price for a trained dog who was only trained a little if you left the e collar on all the time, and used it at a high level. Yup, nope.
He was barely trained and not completely housebroken. We had to send him to specialized training to learn to get along with other dogs. He is getting over his extreme shyness and grace should help him move forward with that even more. The other day he let a stranger pet him. WOW good boy.
Any suggestions on the fetching problem are welcome.
We go to the vet, first shots, wormer. OMG! I have never seen so many worms come out of such a small puppy. Round worms. Take her back to the vet in two weeks, hook worms. Worm her again. Our quiet low energy puppy is, lol, not. It's like living with the energizer bunny on a sugar high.
Can we put the worms back in? Lol.
Despite a rocky start we have hit the puppy trifecta! I have heard of very smart puppies. I've had some smart puppies, but she is a very smart puppy. In four week she sits, sits at the door to go potty, down's from a standing position, in, out, beginning of here, crates, and comes to the proper heal position.
She generalizes these commands. Potty training? Well, she has never gone in her crate. But it's going to be a challenge. Should I poop here mom? No! Ops, too late. She also sleeps as long as five hours now through the night which I love.
She needs to fetch. She's a retriever. Throw the ball, she looks at the ball, looks at me; can I have my treat now mom? No. Rinse, repeat. Two weeks later, she will fetch 20 percent of the time-get the ball and bring it almost all the way back for a treat. Sigh. We will start formal training in a week or so.
I also wormed Koda. Koda, she has worms, leave her butt alone. Yeah, like that was going to work. Koda is a 16 month old male standard poodle, and he has suddenly developed selective hearing. He has also reverted to getting in the trash cans, running around the house like a pony on the open plains, and refusing to crate.
Teenagers are such a handful. We got Koda at 9 months. We are his third family. He was mistreated, unknown to us. We paid a premium price for a trained dog who was only trained a little if you left the e collar on all the time, and used it at a high level. Yup, nope.
He was barely trained and not completely housebroken. We had to send him to specialized training to learn to get along with other dogs. He is getting over his extreme shyness and grace should help him move forward with that even more. The other day he let a stranger pet him. WOW good boy.
Any suggestions on the fetching problem are welcome.