DAKOTA UPDATE
Dakota has finally acknowledged the box of toys that hold all of Chaucer's and Melodie's toys. He has been taking them out one by one. The floor is littered with them and it is like walking through a mine field. Every couple of hours I have to put them all back only to turn around and finding him right behind me taking them out again. It has turned into a great game for him.
His current interests include watching the darn box elder bugs come out of their winter hiding and walk up and down the glass doors. He sits in front of the door and watches them crawl up and down. This dog needs a life! If they fall and land on the floor his nose follows them across the room until they disappear under the furniture or I catch them in the hand vac. Then I get a look that says "What the heck do you think you're doing?"
For some reason he doesn't want to go down the cleared back steps on the deck. He prefers to blast his way through the mounds of snow. He will come up the cleared ones, but not go down them. I have not figured out this strange behavior. He also has discovered that he can roll in the snow on the deck rather than going out in the yard and it's so much more convenient.
Tuesday was a great day for him. He was watching one of the box elder bugs on the door when suddenly his chipmunk appeared. He was so surprised. I took a bit of food out and he spent the morning watching the chipmunk fill his cheeks and scurry off to his hole with bloated cheeks full of sun flower seeds and the like.
He is on a diet - from treats - Grin! But he figured out a way to get more and he's been playing it to the hilt. And should I make a comment about his chewing of a toy that he just pulled out of the box, he gets up and takes it into the eating area where I cannot watch him. This is one smart dude!
We have been treating an ear infection. I have been pleased to see his cooperation since I did not bring him up. I wasn't sure how he was going to react to medical treatment. I've never had a problem with any of my dogs because I start them out as puppies to accept extra, unusual handling. Dakota obviously had a wonderful home since he has not been a problem.
He is frustrated by the rabbits. He pays far too much attention to their smells in the yard. I have warned my husband that soon there will be millions - well maybe only hundreds - of little bunnies running around our yard for Easter. The weather and snow have made it impossible to fix the fences to keep them out. We tried some very heavy varmint wire fence but were shocked to see the holes they managed to chew in the fence to get into the yard. The biggest shocker was to look out on the deck and see that one of them has become comfortable here, it was sitting and looking back through the door to us watching it. We are in serious trouble.
Dakota has accepted the sander for his nails but once in a while he lets me know that I'm not home free and we spar for a bit and then he puts his head down and lets me finish the job. He has a heavy coat and needs combing to get all of the loose under coat out. I wonder if he's going to blow his coat come spring. I have a Booster Bath and hope that he will accept that too. He's enjoying the walks and glad to get out of the house and see the neighborhood. He also has become guardian of his new home and takes his job very seriously.
Computer problems have prevented me from adding pictures and my continued stories of Gold Country. Hopefully I will be back on track this coming week.
His current interests include watching the darn box elder bugs come out of their winter hiding and walk up and down the glass doors. He sits in front of the door and watches them crawl up and down. This dog needs a life! If they fall and land on the floor his nose follows them across the room until they disappear under the furniture or I catch them in the hand vac. Then I get a look that says "What the heck do you think you're doing?"
For some reason he doesn't want to go down the cleared back steps on the deck. He prefers to blast his way through the mounds of snow. He will come up the cleared ones, but not go down them. I have not figured out this strange behavior. He also has discovered that he can roll in the snow on the deck rather than going out in the yard and it's so much more convenient.
Tuesday was a great day for him. He was watching one of the box elder bugs on the door when suddenly his chipmunk appeared. He was so surprised. I took a bit of food out and he spent the morning watching the chipmunk fill his cheeks and scurry off to his hole with bloated cheeks full of sun flower seeds and the like.
He is on a diet - from treats - Grin! But he figured out a way to get more and he's been playing it to the hilt. And should I make a comment about his chewing of a toy that he just pulled out of the box, he gets up and takes it into the eating area where I cannot watch him. This is one smart dude!
We have been treating an ear infection. I have been pleased to see his cooperation since I did not bring him up. I wasn't sure how he was going to react to medical treatment. I've never had a problem with any of my dogs because I start them out as puppies to accept extra, unusual handling. Dakota obviously had a wonderful home since he has not been a problem.
He is frustrated by the rabbits. He pays far too much attention to their smells in the yard. I have warned my husband that soon there will be millions - well maybe only hundreds - of little bunnies running around our yard for Easter. The weather and snow have made it impossible to fix the fences to keep them out. We tried some very heavy varmint wire fence but were shocked to see the holes they managed to chew in the fence to get into the yard. The biggest shocker was to look out on the deck and see that one of them has become comfortable here, it was sitting and looking back through the door to us watching it. We are in serious trouble.
Dakota has accepted the sander for his nails but once in a while he lets me know that I'm not home free and we spar for a bit and then he puts his head down and lets me finish the job. He has a heavy coat and needs combing to get all of the loose under coat out. I wonder if he's going to blow his coat come spring. I have a Booster Bath and hope that he will accept that too. He's enjoying the walks and glad to get out of the house and see the neighborhood. He also has become guardian of his new home and takes his job very seriously.
Computer problems have prevented me from adding pictures and my continued stories of Gold Country. Hopefully I will be back on track this coming week.
posted by Katie | 9:48 AM
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