Quote: Anne Jones

TOO funny...GOT PAWS?!!!!

He IS cute, though. Gonna be big growing into those paws!

LOL, Anne!
Wow, he's going to be a big boy!
Becky, I really impressed with this litter of pups!

You are not too far from us, I can only hope you are still breeding some day when I am ready to step up to a WL dog!

Becky do you ever get medium drive dogs or are all of them really high drive?

That is one of the things we love so much about Brago. He seems to pass on his on/off very well. His pups are very adaptable. If you want to play tug, go for ball drive and get-up-and-go, they will stay right with you and amp up as far as you care to go. If you want to take it a little easier, they can go that way too (within reason, you're still gonna have to burn that puppy energy). For the last week, Echo has been getting a try-out being loose at night. She has slept on the foot of the bed and except for last night when she woke me up licking my face to go out and potty and get a drink, she has slept through the night and been a perfect angel. OTOH, take her out to the training field and she is a live wire! She'll retrieve the ball until your arm falls off, then go for the flirt pole like a mad thing.

VERY nice dog...off switches are soooo GOOD!

Becky forgot to tell me where Brago's is. if he's out of the crate he's going a mile a minute.

But he's a puppy...that's expected...it's later that the off switch comes along. But alas, not in all of them.

We start with tiring them out a bit, then putting on a leash and downing them at our feet, either sitting at the kitchen table or on the couch. We'll put a foot on the leash if necessary, but usually I'll just slowly stroke them and and tell them to "settle". If they start to squirm, I just say, "Aaaahh, settle". Very rarely do I have to say anything after that. I can usually even watch at least half a movie!

Lucky lady.

Drago already has his routine,

3PM Leave kennel run around yard and make sure nothing new appeared

305PM Run to the fat guy that smells like hotdogs and has MY ball in HIS pocket and jump all over him.

307PM do some silly stuff to get hotdogs, easy peasy, this guy is easily amused.

330PM FatMan runs out of hotdogs, pulls my ball out to throw. I go get it and return, he reaches for ball and I see if I can him to run after me turn pink and run out of breath like last time. Didn't work, HE PULLS ANOTHER ONE OF MY BALLS OUT OF HIS POCKET. sneeky fat man. I run back to get my ball, I drop the one in my mouth and he throws it. repeats freqently.

4PM lets me into house, run thru house jump on couch, jump on person on recliner and wash her face, jump off, grab water bowl and dump, while my people run and grab towels, attack garbage can. Search under kitchen table for nom noms, finding few run up stairs jump on beds and into bathroom and drag out dirty clothes from hamper. Trade someones underwear for MY ball. run downstairs and out the open door knocking over older dog.


404PM Back in kennel


5PM SUPPER TIME!!!

So much for an OFF switch. ;-)

Busy day, Drago! Did you remember to take a quick, sloppy drink from the toilet so the seat will be nice and slimy/slobbery when Mom sits down?