Canine Sense - Did You Know
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Tyme Pups - Ready For SantaPaws
(they'll be 9 wks Xmas Eve)
Thanks Marylou for this cute pic of the two of them and seeing that they enjoy this festive season. Read more...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
SantaPaws Came Early!!!!
Our Gralochs Blueberry Tart gave birth yesterday morning to 5 healthy pups, with a nice variety of colours and sexes. They are sired by Am/Cdn Apple Acres Expedition ROM/C. We've waited a while to do this breeding, and couldn't be happier with the outcome. Now the anxiety of watching them grow starts!
Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope SantaPaws is as good to you as he's been to us.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Tyme's Girl 7.5wks - Cocoa
Meet Cocoa, growing up here. She is from our Ch Shelamo Sugar Rush x Ch Shelamo Tyme Descends litter. She was named at just 11 days old by the girl we had here on the day, 'take a kid to work '. It's stuck!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Puppies - Bite Inhibition
In one of my previous posts I said I'd try and get pics of puppies play fighting and learning bite inhibition. They all start to learn this as early as 2.5 wks of age, before the puppy teeth come in.
Here's the Bliss litter around 4 wks of age. They've decided the way I made their bed needed rearranging. Yes, they thought this play time was fun, but they were also learning how much pressure was needed & physical force to move this item, which didn't yipe back at them.
Maybe I should train them to make our bed!
Two of Tyme's girls in a play fight. At 6+ wks their teeth are fully erupted and their jaws are getting stronger.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Winter Grad Class ~ Lakeside
I teach dog obedience at 2 locations for the City of Ottawa. The 1st class graduated on Dec 2 at the Ron Kolbus Lakeside Gardens. It was a Level 2/3 advanced class. I had a great time teaching this class as was small, and diverse enough that we were able to do all kinds of work. With the weather being nice, some daylight still available, along with a well lit area, for the 1st 5 classes we worked outside for 1/2 hr in a very distracted environment. I think everyone accomplished more than they had expected, with some AH HA moments. The students helped each other work through some of their 'kinks' too, which showed me they'd learned how to put small steps of achievements together.
front row - Shadow, GPS-Y, Harley & Taco
Aren't long downs great for photo opps!
As a side note, the 19th Annual Winter Garden Party will be held on February 26, 2012.
Great fun for the kids.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Corki's 1st Xmas With Us
Corki's been our new addition since June ~ she's a real fun loving girl. She helped from start to finish, checking out everything. This is for the March family.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Merry Christmas To All
A Christmas Card to all our friends & fur friends ~ Click on above
Tyme Pups ~ 5 wks 4 days
I'm tardy by 2 days in getting these pics up, but it just goes to show you how fast pups start to mature in their abilities. Tuesday was their 1st day of trying out running ... well it really wasn't running it was a hop, hop type of movement.
Their problem ... the back end doesn't always go where the front end wants to, especially when stopping or slowing down is required.

and those orange things you see, they're Goldfish, the human kind ~ love them as treats
also the tops off the the brown paper rolls make good play toys ~ they're tough
(sorry Linda ~ it was the day for some broken ones ~ gotta bring out the large ones)