Hi, my name is Brandi, I live in Oklahoma where all the storms are hitting!!!

I have 8 animals - 2 dogs Tex, German Shepherd; Roxy, a whippet/Pit bull mix - 4 cats Rascal, Cheyenne, Torrie and She-Ra and 2 Missouri Foxtrotter Chief and Scout.

I will tell you a little more about my dogs: Tex and the story how I ended up with him. Roxy and I were at the boarding barn) and I was tossing hay to my 3 yr old colt Scout, well I looked up and I saw this dog running down the road - pretty busy country road and so I yelled at Roxy. She was looking at me from where she was laying in front of Scouts gate like "what mom I am right here" ok well didn't think anything of it. So before we headed for home I decided that we needed to take another walk. There is a gravel road that goes around the entire property of the boarding barn and it's exactly a mile... and I walk it sometime to get exercise... so we Roxy and I took off - well on the way back to the barn this young GS come bounding up to Roxy... and he had a piece of cotton rope for a collar and wired to the rope was a chain... and he's beautiful. So I took him home with me, put out ads saying that I found him etc... nothing no one claimed him. So I took him to vet and had him neutered and he's been mine ever since. I will post pictures... soon.

Roxy is a Whippet/Pit bull mix - brindle in color white chest - has the whippet long body, tucked up belly and long tail but has the broad nose and head of limke a pit bull.... my boyfriend at the time about 7 years ago - he is now an ex LOL showed up with this 6 week old puppy - stout looking thing... tiny and fiesty - then it grows up to this long body, long legged looking thing - but she's a sweet girl and she's faithful as any dog can be and I love both of them with all my heart.

Thank you for letting me join, anxious to start to getting to know all the members.

Brandi

How long ago did the GSD appear? How old do you think he is?

The Whippet x Pit is around 7 now?

You could link us to a picture if you want (Photobucket is easy).


What kind of obedience training do you do?

It was about a year ago that I found Tex running down the road.. and yes Roxy is about 7 yrs old.

Right now I am just doing basic obedience with Tex. I found this forum through watching one of Michael Ellis videos - the one about training with food... I would like to see if maybe Tex would be good at tracking, thought about search and rescue - not sure about Schutzhund with him though.

I will post pictures soon...

" I found this forum through watching one of Michael Ellis videos - the one about training with food.."


That's marker training. Do you have the video?

http://leerburg.com/training-with-food.htm



And this one is the pre-Ellis-series intro:

http://leerburg.com/219.htm



That second one is a perfect intro if you have never done any marker training (clicker training, for example, is marker training), and the Ellis one (the first one I linked) is great if you have some idea of marker training and you're ready to learn the best way to proceed.



"Right now I am just doing basic obedience with Tex. "

Basic ob with markers is a joy for both you and the dog.

Any idea of Tex's age? (Just curious!)

When I took him to the vet to have him neutered, the vet is thinking any where between 9 months to 1 yr old.

I borrowed the video - I need to watch it again and return it.

When I was a member of our local obedience club (actually I was the president) we had an instructor that did clicker training and I find the whole marker training interesting.

Tonight if I can I will post pictures of my furkids..

You might find an aversion to the term "furkids" here. LOL

I highly recommend marker training; as you know, the owner of this board is the producer of the Michael Ellis videos.

"Tonight if I can I will post pictures"

Excellent! You can post an embedded one here in the "Bio" forum, or link us to as many as you like on a Photobucket-type share site.

Not real sure what you mean by embedded?

I do have photobucket, but I don't use it very often. I just usually download pictures from my laptop.