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New Puppy!

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tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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The past week has been a blur of sleep deprivation due to our new puppy, who's finally getting more secure in his new environment.

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Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Cuteness puppified!!

Have you picked out a name?

happygirl Collaborator
happygirl
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What a cutie!!!!!!! Congratulations on your new addition. I loved watching him play!

We are lacking in sleep as well. I completely understand!

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Aw Tiffany--your new puppy is adorable! So cute :D

Does he/she have a name yet?

ShayFL Enthusiast
ShayFL
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What a beautiful pup!! Makes me think of what our Lucy must have looked like then. We have a white standard female. She is a rescue. We got her from Circus people who had over 100 dogs with all of them in crates all day with only 2 potty breaks and no play time. It was pathetic. She is partially blind and mentally retarded. But we just love her!! :)

Have fun and enjoy every moment of it!! Hide your shoes. :P

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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we've named him Neo, like in The Matrix, and he's settled in, and doing well with what we're teaching him so far. he picked up sit very quickly, so we're mostly reinforcing; he naturally retrieves, so we just need to correlate it with a command. stay is just starting to happen, as he's just now getting comfortable with the idea of this being his permanent new home and feeling confident of it. come is one my husband is working on, and it's a little slow going. he knows the idea of housebreaking, but doesn't get the idea of puppy pads, which is kinda frustrating. not too many accidents, however, since he's good about waiting until we go outside (which is often).

he's been fairly good with shoes. trying to teach him not to chew on the ethernet cable I have on the floor while I work from home has been harder, but he's picking it up. the guy is smart, just sometimes very puppy. :) he is only 9.5 weeks old, after all. :D

dlp252 Apprentice
dlp252
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OMGosh, Neo is ADORABLE!!!! You can tell from the looks on his face that he is quite the character!

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kschauer Rookie
kschauer
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I can't see him! :(

Mtndog Collaborator
Mtndog
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Tiffany- WHere is he???????? I can't see him! I wanna see your puppy!!!!!!!!

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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Tiffany- WHere is he???????? I can't see him! I wanna see your puppy!!!!!!!!

Yeah, what the crap???? How come everybody else got to see him?!?!?!?

Lisa Mentor
Lisa
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Neo the invisible puppy..designed to drive us mad. I can't see him Tiffany, but congratulations.

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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huh, that's odd. I had a link to my flickr pictures (not an advertisement, I don't sell my pics, and none of them come close to offensive, they're mostly trees from hiking!).

perhaps someone edited it out?

I'll try again: Open Original Shared Link

Phyllis28 Apprentice
Phyllis28
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Adorable

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tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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Some more pictures of Neo - both feeling unwell (we think it's a bad case of teething) and playing like crazy (taken on back to back days).

Open Original Shared Link

(I'm a sucker for pet pictures. :) )

Mtndog Collaborator
Mtndog
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OMG- he's a baby lamb!!!!!!!!! I'm in love :wub: :wub: :wub:

elye Community Regular
elye
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Tiifany, what a gorgeous creature Neo is!! I would never get another breed after having spent half my life with standard poodles. We have two, a big white female rescue pup, and a very big apricot male. They are the ideal dog -- with children, the elderly, big families, small......perfectly cut out for the job of special needs dog...cannot say enough about them.

Funny, our black female standard that I grew up with went through all kinds of obedience and agility training, and learned so quickly, as these fiercely intelligent beasts do. Sit, down, stay, heel, everything was picked up immediately. However, she would not ever respond to the "come" command - - ever. She knew what it meant, but simply chose not to obey that one. :lol: One of the trainers at the time told me that standard poodles are renowned for this, the refusal to come on command. My two current standards, as well, just stare at me when I yell at them from across the meadow, "Come!"

.....They're too smart for their own good!! :rolleyes:

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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They are, aren't they? Makes training a hoot, since you have to be on your toes to keep them from getting bored! :D

We won't try an un-enforceable come for a long time yet (at least another six months of training it on a long line), but so far, he's done great. Both for "come" (our command) and "here" (our request). It takes *a lot* of time to train that one to use it as the life-saving, emergency recall that is ideal. (If he doesn't outgrow his puppy ADD very quickly, he might not be 2 until we test him off lead on come. ;) )

JennyC Enthusiast
JennyC
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Congratulations! I wish you a good night's rest! :)

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