"You can tell me I'm gorgeous any time now . . . "
Posted on 01/15/2007 4:42:58 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
We just picked up a beautiful black Lab puppy (9 weeks old as I write this) last weekend. He is devilishly handsome and too smart for his own good right now - hopefully the brain power will serve him well when he has the capacity to use it responsiby (the same descriptoin and hopes apply to my 2 human kids :)). He has a hunting dog's pedigree and is a purebreed, and I am reluctantly considering the neutering option for him when the time comes. Any suggestions from experienced dog owners would be greatly appreciated.
Every time you catch her chewing something inappropriate tell her no.
Take her away from the spot and give her something appropriate to chew on.
Start now teaching the STAY command.
Be content with 6 seconds at first, praise her up.
Build her time up slowly. In a week it will be a minute.
I can put my girls down on a stay for 3 hours.
Sounds like cruelty but I can have company over and not have to banish the dogs.
They STAY through dinner and a movie..
They are present but not intrusive.
They can play and visit when the people say so, not when the dogs say so.
"You can tell me I'm gorgeous any time now . . . "
"I cook with 1 dog between my feet and one right behind me."
LOL! You peeking in my windows?
She is a beauty...
You are making me ache for another puppy.
Quit it.
I'm not peeking but my Solitare could.
She has supurb balance on her back legs.
She will stand all the way up to supervise my cooking.
Maybe you should consider a new boyfriend! ;^)
LOL. (I meant the dog, silly.)
First you picture has to have an address. IOW, you must post it on your own web page, or some other web picture hosting page. Your web address will look something like this: http://myfavoritedogpictures.com/per/post?id=1234%2CC44. You cannot post a picture unless it is already hosted somewhere.
Next right click on you picture on its host page and click PROPERTIES. Copy and paste the string of symbols there into a FR posting box.
Next, type < img src="your string of symbols here that you found in the properties tag" >. Leave NO space between the < and the rest of the expression when you are typing. ALWAYS leave one space between img and src and leave NO space between the end of your string " and the last >. Your picture should be transferred into your FR posting box when you click "Post".
I cannot type the whole thing as an example with the spaces and the non-spaces where they belong because, if I do, the whole thing disappears. That's a property of HTML. Try it a few times with any existing picture in the FR preview box and then wipe it out if you don't want to post it. It's fun.
She's growing up to be a real beauty.
What a gorgeous dog. (The big one. The little one is cute, but the BIG one is gorgeous.) When I took my rescue Golden for training (required by the rescue contract) we trained with a Bull Mastiff (somewhat smaller than your baby). He was a wonderful, gentle, charming animal.
We had an exercise where we started out in two lines facing each other. All of the dogs and their owners had to walk towards each other and the dogs had to stop in the middle of the room (smooshed together) and lie down and stay without bothering each other. Then the owners had to leave while the dogs had to stay.
That big ol' mastiff would just lie there thumping his tail on the floor. Whichever dog next to him would be eyeing that tail slapping up and down, and you could just tell that the smaller dog would want to nip the tail, or slap it down with a paw. But none of them dared. They couldn't take their eyes of that snake-like tail slamming down on the floor.
The mastiff didn't care. He'd just lie all the way down with his head sort of rolled over on the floor, totally oblivious of some samller dog ready to pounce on his wagging tail.
Funniest thing I ever saw.
There was a huge St. Bernard in the class too with a mother and a very small boy trying to train him. Our exercise was to teach the dog to "finish" -- walk around the owner in a circle and then sit at the owner's heel, facing forward. Mom couldn't get the hang of it, but the little boy told her, "Just spit in your hand,, Mom, and he'll follow you wherever you want him to go!" It worked, too! LOL.
The little one can do "sit" - but her "heel" is cockeyed right now - keeps turning right to look straight at me and keep her eye on those treats in my pocket . . .
Never knew rodent control was a fringe benefit of MinPins.
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How wonderful. You must post pictures!
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