Dog Notes
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DOG NOTES
JUNE 10TH
* CLEO the 4month VIZSLA PUPPY that I walk every day continues to do great at the park : best friends now are : Dixie - 4 months, Button - little guy about a year and a half, Gussy - 4 month girl and for at least one afternoon : BELA - 8 month gentle pitbull pup
* KATIE the 13 yr. old toy poodle was pretty sick Tuesday night. Kept needing to pee... but nothing there.. then some blood. Probable urinary track infection. Bea -her owner- searched all evening for a vet to see her: no luck. Saw her today - wednesday; she told me her real vet finally returned her calls : prescribed anti-biotics. KATIE already seemed a little better today.
* I guess Wendy's OMEGA has actually left us for good and gone off to Guiding Eyes school today - wednesday. She had passed her trial awhile ago but due to there not being a trainer ready to take her she got to spend some more time with us. One of the great dogs ever to grace the park, the daughter of Icarus : 1st Guiding Eyes dog to work with autistic chidren. LAILA, Wendy's new pup in progress was there Tuesday on OMEGA'S last day at the park. LAILA seems like a sweet, shy girl, kind of like HARVEY - Wendy's Guiding Eyes Pup before OMEGA - was.
Just heard by eMail that RUBY: aka RUBY 2, RUBY 2SDAY the beautiful boxer girl who keeps on going despite the most unfair amount of infirmities and conditions was great at her first trip to a nursing home. She made a 101 year old woman named Sophie laugh and smile. Awhile ago, I forgot to post the news that she had passed her GOOD CITIZENSHIP test administered by Wendy of BEST FRIENDS & GUIDING EYES.
JUNE 7TH
* TOOK DOWN THE NOTES ON THE BIG DOG FIGHT IN THE ENTRYWAY due to reasonable request by concerned parties. My hands seem to be healing up pretty fast, no infections. Myra's hands are also doing alright. BRANDY the spaniel has a wrenched shoulder, may strained tendons... swollen, sore. I guess that ROSEYandMOJO are fine. Coulda been a lot worse.
* CLEO the 4 month old Vizsla puppy that I've been dog sitting/walking for almost 2 months now, visited the park for her first time today. What a little perfect wrestling dog play star she was. I had been so worried that as she waited for her last parvo vaccine (16 weeks) that she was missing out on her most crucial playbite development time. I was wrestling with her everyday: saying "good bite " whenever she mouthed softly enough, and " ouch!" when she bit too hard. But she was just great at the park today : playing with BORIS the french bulldog pup and NICKI the wonderdog puppy girl. Her owners : Elizabeth & Blake seemed properly proud.
JUNE 6TH
* STORM , the fetching portuguese water dog of Cindy : it turns out : is related to BO the OBAMA presidential PWD dog. Uh Huh, Yes : way..
* PETEY , the tibetan terrier, 14 month, I call him "samuri sheepdog" 'cause of the top knot he wears to keep his hair out of his eyes : got a haircut. looks good.
* NICKI the few month old wonder puppy hit it off big time with OMEGA who's leaving to start Guiding Eyes School on Wednesday
* We were visited by 2 newish wonderful pitbull girls: DIVA - about a year old and ROSEY - nine years old. Also , later in the day : SAMPSON the young pitbull boy and CINDY his shy older sister pitbull returned. We hadn't seen them for awhile.
* MAX the wild rescue girl of Myra & OREO the possibly even wilder young border collie boy finally discovered each other and looked like they're gonna be really great for each other : tumbling and chasing at their own unique rate of super bubbling life
* Me : I'm gonna have to start getting serious about finding some living situation that will keep me in the area after me and Cathy ( my wife) finish splitting up. Rent a room in someone's house that needs some help or something like that. A dog having/loving place so I can keep Maddie.
JUNE 4th: :
* Ginger the new puppy girl and Brandy the springer spaniel have become "totally" best friends. Go figure. Don't know if I've seen Brandy having such a friend. She's about 2 or three years old I think. A true puppy at heart.
JUNE 4th: :
* How 'bout how Ginger the new puppy girl & Dixie the new puppy girl look so much alike. Punch in "ginger" or " dixie" in the May 2009 photos - or June and take a look. Just by coincidence , they have yet to be in the park at the same time yet. Their owners are pretty sure that they come from the same litter, and were adopted from the same shelter, and now are sharing the same dog park.
JUNE 4th: :
* No sooner had I mentioned in my notes yesterday that little Rocky the tiny rottweiler mix seems to have never been taught how to plat - especially how to play bite : an opportunity presented itself for my dog Maddie to lend a hand. Since it was raining, there were only a few dogs : Maddie, the poodles : Lucy & Ethel, and then little Rocky. After the poodles left, there was just Rocky & Maddie. I spent some time teaching Rocky to catch and bring the ball back, and spin around for treats but , eventually, Maddie took over : leading the young boy on chases , and then soft wrestling play like she does with little Jet. She let him do all kinds of stuff that she normally corrects - fiercely: humping, sniffing, biting too hard.... anything he wanted to do as long as he was getting some play practice. There are a number of photos. It was really impressive. Can't wait to see Rocky the next time to see if any of it took, and to see if Maddie picks up where she left off - even with other dogs around. She usually only does this kind of stuff with young dogs when there are no other dogs.
JUNE 3rd: :
* JET - the little black poodle for so long so belittled and under estimated ( see : Jet Saves Maddie) can now jump up onto the igloo. Self worth through the roof. Confidence & Pride.
* Oliver the tri- aussie has matured to the xtent that he now runs to the aid of any smaller dog being roughed up. Three or four days ago, he gently told young pup Zeke to stop playing do rough wih new puppy : Dixie. A day or so ago he stopped his Buddy Bubba the boxer from worrying some other small dog; yesterday, he stopped the puppy Ginger from freaking out little Roxy the Havana Silk; when he corrected the puppy, he did it gently but firmly: and seemed to convince little Ginger to just drop any attempts at that sort of behaviour: as Ginger then left Roxy alone the rest of the evening. The techniques he used on the puppy were exactly the techniques that my dog Maddie used on him when he was such a spectacular puppy. Oliver - in case you are not aware - holds the distinction of being the wildest puppy yet seen by the park: a legend.
* We now have a number of possibly over precious dogs in the park that actually endanger all the other "normal" dog-type-dogs. Dogs that are fine and wonderfully playful on their own, but whose owners have no sense of the nature of dog play : becoming somewhat hysterical when their dog's invitations to play are accepted. This usually leads to alot of misinformed screaming and finger pointing. The removal of enthusiastic, joyful furry frolicers, just a horrible sense of tension and eventually heartbreak. Some reasonable sense of dogs being dogs has to be maintained. If there can be the horrors of Michael Vick pitbuul fights and, on the other end of the spectrum, elegant canine spas where dogs poop perfumed pastries, then this park is somewhere way in the middle of the two. Most people at the park do not bring their dogs to the park in hopes of protecting some far superior dog now and then from their pathetic monster.
* I've got this new theory that little new guy Rocky the black & tan little rottweiler boy : I call him a Chi-weiler or Rotthauhau... that when he was a puppy , no one let him learn how to playbite. Probably in the top three things a dog must know in order to be happy and not go crazy. That's why when he's playing - and he loves to play - and chasing, when he gets to the play situation, he doesn't know what to do nex... so just winds up barking as a way to join in. All the other dogs are doing their mouthing, playbite, rolling around stuff. Could be some mis - informemed person wherever he was before the shelter, kept "correcting" when ever he went to do practice & learn all his important dog stuff. Wonder how someone can fix that : give him some 2nd puppyhood where he learns all the stuff that mommy dogs teach their litters. Just something that occured to me; I haven't really concentrated on it that much yet.
* So I was wrong : Percy : jet black short haired svelt boy : I really like him - my dog Maddie really " LOVES" him, really is somewhat "food aggressive." Does the little Elvis snarl " Thank you very much " before getting nasty. Will have to see how he can have that burden removed from him. Great dog. People don't realize how much I love being wrong now and then just to see if I can admit it and change. I'm always worried that I can't, and those might be the persons I hate the most.
* Funny how hard my dog Maddie has been on the new puppies this year: especially the girls but how fiercely she defends them if any dog tries to aggress on them We all remember teachers like that. The one we thought was really mean, and then shocked us with some concern for our benefit.
Oh : My wife Cathy & I are going to be separating soon. So I will be hunting around for a "living situation in the area so Maddie and I can continue to be involved with The Park.
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