Beth & Atlas
Member Since 2010
Yesterday's Condo
Atlas slept the whole day away and I even had to take him dinner in bed last night. Part of me wants to run him in to the vet, but other than him being slothful there are no real symptoms to discuss. We did quite a bit of bloodwork back in December and that came back Ok at the time.
MudCat and Gary continue to get more and more familiar with each other. You'd think after a nearly a 9 months everybody would be in their hierarchy position, but MudCat being torti ...she has her own ways.
Last night as I worked on my website Gary was keeping me company at my feet. MudCat approached him all chortling and tenatively trying to groom him. I could sort of tell he was surprised too. He turned toward her and she of course bolted out of the room. Gary sat there and just stared up at with his big green eyes as if to say...."What is her problem?" Later in bed I had Atlas on my pillow with me and the other two at the foot of the bed. Gary eventually go booted out of bed late last night as he was insisting on playing footsie with me!
Our day today is kind of busy.
We finally get to meet our new client Buddy the lab puppy today at 10am
,
then we have to walk Hardy, Pugsley
and the girls Penny & Lexie, a
nd Miss Evie,
then late this afternoon the boys again.
They are on doubles today and tommorow.
I finally got connected up with Buddy's owner on the phone and we're going to have our hands full with him. They got Buddy at the beginning of last summer and pretty much attempted to train him themselves. They let the boys (children) handle walking Buddy all summer long and now that Buddy is much, much bigger she can't have the boys walk him and admits it is tough for her. There are plans for spring to get him into a training class and she mentioned her boys were wanting to do 4-H. Well, it just so happens I know a local trainer who does 4-H with dogs and Rally-O obediance! Their lives are a little complicated at the moment from some medical issues, so yeah...training Buddy is backburner for now. But...there is a lot we can do in the meantime. So I am looking forward to explaining how I can help. They've owned labs for over 20 years and just love the dogs, but she says Buddy is growing into one of the biggest she has ever had too.
So it is sounding like I'll have quite a challange on my hands and I think depending on the age of the boys, I may ask if they would like to schedule in home training time on Saturdays. Everything I do with Buddy is going to need to be reinforced by the family. From the parents ...right on down to the boys.
I recently read a FB post by a local radio host in our area about her boys and their dogs. They had a 'surfing' incident with the dog and a corndog (yum!). The radio host completely blew how to handle it. I responded to her concerns and what steps she needed to take with herself and eventually her dog. Lots of folks didn't like my post to her. :evil: . But, the radio host saw the wisdom in what I was telling her. They had been penning the dogs up during meals etc. to keep them from surfing. That does not solve the problem and she realized she finally needs to teach her dogs not to surf for food with young children in the home. Although I don't know of any dog that is going to be able to resist an corndog left laying on the coffe table! :lol:
Atlas slept the whole day away and I even had to take him dinner in bed last night. Part of me wants to run him in to the vet, but other than him being slothful there are no real symptoms to discuss. We did quite a bit of bloodwork back in December and that came back Ok at the time.
MudCat and Gary continue to get more and more familiar with each other. You'd think after a nearly a 9 months everybody would be in their hierarchy position, but MudCat being torti ...she has her own ways.
Last night as I worked on my website Gary was keeping me company at my feet. MudCat approached him all chortling and tenatively trying to groom him. I could sort of tell he was surprised too. He turned toward her and she of course bolted out of the room. Gary sat there and just stared up at with his big green eyes as if to say...."What is her problem?" Later in bed I had Atlas on my pillow with me and the other two at the foot of the bed. Gary eventually go booted out of bed late last night as he was insisting on playing footsie with me!
Our day today is kind of busy.
We finally get to meet our new client Buddy the lab puppy today at 10am
, then we have to walk Hardy, Pugsley
and the girls Penny & Lexie, a
nd Miss Evie,
then late this afternoon the boys again.
They are on doubles today and tommorow.
I finally got connected up with Buddy's owner on the phone and we're going to have our hands full with him. They got Buddy at the beginning of last summer and pretty much attempted to train him themselves. They let the boys (children) handle walking Buddy all summer long and now that Buddy is much, much bigger she can't have the boys walk him and admits it is tough for her. There are plans for spring to get him into a training class and she mentioned her boys were wanting to do 4-H. Well, it just so happens I know a local trainer who does 4-H with dogs and Rally-O obediance! Their lives are a little complicated at the moment from some medical issues, so yeah...training Buddy is backburner for now. But...there is a lot we can do in the meantime. So I am looking forward to explaining how I can help. They've owned labs for over 20 years and just love the dogs, but she says Buddy is growing into one of the biggest she has ever had too.
So it is sounding like I'll have quite a challange on my hands and I think depending on the age of the boys, I may ask if they would like to schedule in home training time on Saturdays. Everything I do with Buddy is going to need to be reinforced by the family. From the parents ...right on down to the boys.
I recently read a FB post by a local radio host in our area about her boys and their dogs. They had a 'surfing' incident with the dog and a corndog (yum!). The radio host completely blew how to handle it. I responded to her concerns and what steps she needed to take with herself and eventually her dog. Lots of folks didn't like my post to her. :evil: . But, the radio host saw the wisdom in what I was telling her. They had been penning the dogs up during meals etc. to keep them from surfing. That does not solve the problem and she realized she finally needs to teach her dogs not to surf for food with young children in the home. Although I don't know of any dog that is going to be able to resist an corndog left laying on the coffe table! :lol:
We discussed Buddy's issues and Buddy stealthly investigated me. Finally I had the wife put his leash on him and hand it to me.
