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February 2012

Volume 2, Number 2

Life is settling down.

It has been a month with your little puppy under the tree.  Classes have begun.  Vaccination appointments run your schedule just like the many potty breaks and the messes from those you miss.

Your puppy should be learning the basic obedience lessons and be socialized.  If you haven’t been socializing the puppy your already behind on the training.  You need to get this going or you will have a naughty puppy that could be placed in the yard or sent to a shelter.  Lets not think about that because by reading this you’re learning and I believe in you.  You can do this.  You teach the children that are a part of your life daily.  Be it your own or friends children.

Once the classes are done remember to use those commands on a daily basis and to make sure that you don’t let the puppy get away with something once and then the next time punish them when it has been caught.  Like if never on the couch and today you allow it but tomorrow the rules stand.  It confuses the pup.

Puppy Push-ups

This has been the best thing that we have ever learned.  Not only does it work the commands but it also works the puppies mind.  Once your pup has the basics down start chaining them together.

Start with sit, then add down.  Use these two commands over and over again. Then once your pup learns this you can add in another command like Up.  So it would run sit, down, up.  So the puppy is up, may be in a stand or a sit and that is ok.  Next add come, so it may look like sit, down, up, come.  Some other commands that I like to use are crawl, stand, back.  Do this several times a day.  Have everyone in the house using these commands and reinforcing them.  Your puppy will learn that everyone has the same rules and will not be testing one easy member.

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Grief is natural

Grief is a natural part of life.  Sadly our pets don’t live as long as we would like.  We know all too well what this pain feels like.  What it is to make the choice that we have for our pets who are in so much pain and their quality of life is not there.  We have that voice.  It is never easy when a loved pet, who has been more like a child, becomes unable to have a quality of life.

We recently said good-bye to our beloved Roo.  She was by my side since she came home.  She was an old soul even as a puppy.  She was training to become a service dog at just five months and by 8 months was bulletproof.  She was there to guide me and to protect me for only four short years. 

Sadly just before she turned 4 years old she had ruptured a disk in her back.  She instantly went from the active pup to one who was unable to move.  We took her to several vets and when told only a high priced surgery would give her minimal chance at ever walking again.  I couldn’t do that.  Couldn’t afford it.  What we wanted was to find a chiropractor for pets.

We found a wonderful chiropractor and put Roo’s life in her hands.  She was amazing and when we went to visit Roo just 24 hours after dropping her off she had her glow back, her desire to live.  We knew then that we would give Roo everything we could, until she told us that it was time.

That time came two years, two months, and two days later.  We let Roo go play without pain and without wheels.  She is now free to run and dock dive again and to help those waiting on the other side until their loved ones met them once again.

If you have lost a pet you know this pain and if anyone tells you that you need to get over it know that there are others like yourself that cry because a piece of their heart was taken when the pet passed.

Pnut’s Corner.

This has been a hard month on me.  The holidays were great and I am glad that I had this with my family.  I was with my Mom and Dad when they let my Grandmother Roo pass away.  I was placed in another room while they said their good-byes but brought me back and when I realized that Roo’s soul was gone I laid my head on the floor. 

They say dog’s have no feelings but when Mom and Dad brought her body home to be buried they were thinking about our needs.  They brought her to the yard and placed her by the grave they dug.  We each said our good-byes.  My Great Grandma May even sent a ball with Roo because she would need one if she wanted to dock dive again.  Stinky just couldn’t understand why she wasn’t trying to play with her.  Cole, Lattee, & Chrystal said their good-byes and then wanted to play again.  Max had the hardest time of everyone.  He was gieving for a few days.  Me, I still go to her grave and want to know why her body rest here but I still see her soul playing in the yard.

I have been there for Mom since Roo’s passing and have stepped up to the plate.  I have even become what Mom says is a big girl because my body started to cycle.  Mommy says that I am now a woman.

It was so warm that I loved it, January is supposed to be cold with lots of snow, but it all melted away until one day it got so sold out and it was snowing.  I love the snow.  I dig in the snow for poopsicles. It is gross to you humans but we find it a special treat.  It is normal for us especially if we are fed corn filled foods or the food wasn’t digested before it was pooped out.