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Sunday Evening Dog Blogging
Sunday, July 12th, 2009More pics of Daisy, my new pup.
Harper is slowly warming up to her—probably 60 percent annoyed, and 40 percent happy to have a playmate around again. I’m determined to make Daisy a Frisbee dog, so she tried out her first Frisbee at a neighborhood cookout yesterday. First step: Figuring out how to pick it up when it’s lip-side down. She found this quite frustrating. Everyone at the cookout found it ridiculously entertaining.
She’s a looker, Radley.
Sweet!
I’m 60% annoyed with my girlfriends dogs, 40% tolerant because I have to be. I feel ya Harper.
This pup is the Ur-Cute.
It’s the sincerity, I think. Or maybe the floppy ears and the nose-snippet.
Cute cute cute!!!!
Puppies are like having kids in diapers though…arrrrgh. Housebreaking is a chore. My last puppy ran me ragged as she tried to eat my house…including drywall. carpet, and the leg on a 3 month old coffee table.
A suggestion on the frisbee dog thing- consider getting one of those soft canvas frisbees instead of a hard plastic one. My dog likes that much, much better.
Who’s a pwetty lil puppy? Who’s a pwetty lil puppy?
Okay. I’ll stop now.
Cutie!
My wife told me the dog looks kinda like its at least part beagle. I have to agree. Mostly from looking at her face. Plus she’s definitely working the sad look like only a beagle can.
I second the soft frisbee idea…my dog loves playing frisbee but he has destroyed numerous cheap plastic ones. A nice lightweight, soft rubber frisbee should last a really long time and is easy on the dog’s teeth/gums (sometimes my dog’s gums get a little bloody when he catches a plastic frisbee too many times).
May I keep my “I really don’t like dogs” membership card while at the same time saying Daisy is a beautiful dog?
Puppies are like having kids in diapers
Which is why I’m not going to let my husband convince me to get a puppy until our kids are potty trained!
Although Radley’s wearing me down with the cute. *shakes fist*
Quick note on housebraking the dog: make a loud noise when she does something you don’t like, followed by a gentle grab around the side of the neck.
Puppies that are startled will learn much quicker and it doesn’t have any long-term effects on him/her. It’s how we trained our puppy not to chew or go in the house. We picked her up at 11 weeks and she only had three accidents in the house (we watched her like a hawk and as soon as it looked like she might be trying to go potty, we’d clap our hands really loud, yell NO! and carry her outside so she could pee on the grass, then gave her a cookie and rewarded her by petting and playing with her).
Go for a Shiba Inu – ours practically potty trained herself. 1 accident in the first week and none since. She also figured out in the first week the difference between her toys and the furniture (1 incident where she nibbled on the foot of a chair) and hasn’t touched anything but toys since.
Smartest dog I’ve ever met (of course, I’m a bit biased).
Radley,
I realize you have been down this road before. However, this article was helpful when I adopted an adult dog. Seems like good advice in general.
http://www.fortunatek9.com/Articles/The_Behavioral_Bends_of_Adoption_Julia_V_McDonough.pdf
We have a black lab mix and that’s how she was, too. We caught her trying to chew the carpet once and one of our chairs once. We made loud noises and yelled NO! and she never did it again. Even to this day, she will only chew her toys or things we give her, never touched any of our stuff.
My buddy and his wife have a Briard. A beautiful dog, but not the smartes canine on the block. He wanted a dog he could throw a frisbee to so he ended up adopting a 2yr old Border Collie. Another beautiful dog and smart as a whip but has no desire to chase anything. Despite his efforts at training the pooch.
We have a Lab/Border collie mix that likes the ball, but not the frisbee. We also have a Lab/Pointer mix that fixates on the frisbee and is indafatigible when it comes to chasing and catching the frisbee, and we didn’t lift a finger to train him.
This all leads me to believe that while dogs are definitaley trainable, some dogs are just natural at it.
Good luck, Balko. The dog is adorable.
Cheers.
A beautiful dog, but not the smartes canine on the block.
That should read “smartest.”
Heh.
Maybe I’m not the smartest commenter on the block.
LOL.
Cheers.
Radley, could you resize these pictures to more reasonable dimensions? 3174×2592 is a wee bit large for posting on a web page and tends to freeze up the browser.
She’s precious, Radley. Hope you’re having fun with her.
If Daisy were my dog, she’d be spoiled rotten already. I’d constantly be hugging and kissing her. And she’s so photogenic! Maybe she has a career as a doggie model?
I’ve seen dogs with those super-expressive eyebrows before. They can look surprised, hurt, inquisitive etc., all while maintaining that irresistible aura of cuteness that makes you want to hug them.
You should probably place a warning on your dog blogging posts for a while. Daisy’s entirely too cute.
It was the final straw for us. Our 10 yr old lab got a new packmate this week, a 2 month old Collie/Shepherd from the humane society. So far, so good. Kids, dog and puppy all getting along. Peter T. Dog seems to enjoy herding puppy around yard at a slow run, and it’s good to see him moving this much.