Puppy Class today

Once or twice a year my puppy club does a meeting at Discovery Academy. It is a school for troubled teens and I always love going there. The students really respond to the puppies and they always enjoy our visits. At the beginning we had a blind man from Salt Lake come down with his guide dog, Mariah, and he spoke to the students about blindness and using a guide dog. It was so fun. After he spoke we let the students pet and play with our puppies. Here are a bunch of pics from the meeting.

Me and my roommate are puppy sitting for Becky (Sarah's school puppy) and she got to reunite with her sister Breeze in our club. Here they are trying to play with each other.
[Breeze enjoying some pets from a student. I love how her eyes are closed.]
[Becky getting some pets while laying down in the grass.]

[Kyle laying in the grass with a student laying next to him.]

[Big handsome man Spike standing next to his raiser while she speaks with the students.]

[Picassa playing tug with a student. She loved playing tug with everyone and the kids loved playing with her too.]

[Picassa playing tug with a student sitting in the grass.]

[Christina plays tug with a student.]

[Sugar sitting nicely while her raiser talks to a group of students.]

[Spike getting pets from a student.]

The dogs were really hot after a while and they school let us use their hose to water our dogs. Meade was a pro! Here he is slurping water from the hose.

[Kyles cute little face.]

[I hosed down Picassa so here she is all wet and feeling much cooler. Poor dog thinks she is a black lab, hot weather is not okay with her.]

[Kyle enjoying pets from a student.]

[Breeze and Becky playing. Breeze is under Becky who looks like she is standing on her head.]

[Becky biting Breezes leg while Breeze gets ready to retaliate. I love how different they are. Breeze is more stalky and Becky is slim and tall. Breeze is also really white while Becky is more carmel colored.]

[Picassa kept biting Meade's tongue while he panted. Yep, my dog is really weird. After I got a picture I made her stop.]

After puppy class me, Gabby, and Karen took the puppies out for lunch. They were all sacked out after such an intense puppy class. Here is Picassa passed out under the table.

[Becky behaved beautifully for such a young pup. Here she is sitting in the restaurant. The waitress loved her!]

Then we went home and everyone got a nap. When we woke up we let Picassa and Becky play a bit. They were really funny and Picassa was so gentle with the puppy.

[Becky grabbed a big bone and ran around with it for a while.]

[Becky took a running leap and smashed into Picassa's side, it was hilarious, she is a spunky little pup and can sure keep up with the big dogs.]

[Becky also enjoyed running under Picassa.]

[Becky running toward the camera with the big bone in her mouth.]

[Becky on her back with Picassa standing over her.]

[Picassa on her back with Becky standing over her.]

It's been a good day! Becky has been a joy and it'll be sad to see her go tomorrow. :D

Picture Post/Moving

Here are a bunch of pictures from Picassa's first week here. She is kind of a weirdo but I am really loving her. She definitely keeps me on my toes but she loves to please and she tries really hard. We also moved yesterday, so Picassa is an apartment dog now. She seems to be enjoying it though. Anyway, now it's picture time.

[I caught Picassa holding her paws in a funny way while in the kennel. Both her paws are curled in, it doesn't look very comfortable.]
[Picassa at Wal-Mart being a very good girl laying down and waiting for me to check out. I love that you can tell that her tail is wagging. It only takes a glance from anyone to get her tail going a mile a minute.]
[We filled up my car to move to SLC and Picassa climbed the boxes because she loves to see out the window and rest her head on my shoulder. It's sweet, but I am working on getting her to sit on the floor.]

[Picassa being a good girl and chewing on a bone while I am unpacking stuff in my apartment. She has her fanny up in the air and is putting most her weight on her head while she chews.]

[We are puppy sitting Meade and he was great during the move and is having fun breaking in our apartment. He is laying on a big brown bed.]

[Picassa squished herself into this tiny ball in a space about a foot and a half wide between my dresser and my night stand while I was packing up some stuff. She is laying on the blue tray I feed her on.]

[Picassa loved my bathroom floor and goes to lay in there frequently.]

[Picassa was helping me unpack by standing between my legs every time I moved.]

[Paris helping me make my bed. Every time I put a sheet or blanket on she had to stick her head under it. She was pulling her head out when I took this. It just made me smile. What a goof ball!]

[This is why I don't leave the toy basket on the floor. I usually put the dog toy basket on top of the kennel but I had it on the floor until I set up the kennel and Picassa had a great time taking all the toys out and scattering them around my floor.]

It's been a good week with Picassa and I look forward to many more weeks together.

OH, and before I forget. I found out a surprising little tidbit about Picassa while I was reading her paperwork last week. When I chose to take her I was told that she was spayed, but after reading her paperwork there was a little hand written note in it that said "Picassa has not gone into heat yet." Ummm. . . a little confused so I looked at the page behind the note and it was a paper explaining the international breeding program. I thought that was funny so I called my leader and she called my CFR and I guess my CFR overlooked that she was still intact. So, since I live in an apartment when she goes into heat she will have to go stay with my leader or another lady in my club for a month. *tear* Hopefully they'll let me visit a lot. I haven't had to deal with a female in heat for a long time, so this should be interesting.

And, I don't have internet at my new apartment so my blog may be quiet for a while. I'll miss all of you but I'll (hopefully) be back soon.

Happy Birthday Paris!

Well, my little girl is a year old today. I can't believe it! She has been here for 5 months now and I couldn't be more pleased with her. She is a great pupper and only gets better and better.

Today has already been quite eventful. We had puppy meeting at my house this morning and we decided to make it a birthday party because four of our clubs puppies turned a year old this week. My leader passed the torch on to me to plan and everything so it was fun. I am afraid I showed my more dorky side today but my club seemed to enjoy it. :D And as an extra special treat Paris' first mom, Sarah came too. Paris was so excited to see her, it was cute.

[Paris with her goofy birthday hat on. It is a round cake shaped hat with three candles on top that all of my puppies have worn.]

Here are the pupcakes that I made for the party. Each dog got one. They are peanut butter and honey cupcakes with blended cottage cheese frosting and carrot shreds on top.
What is a birthday party without games. We played tic-tac-toe first. It's where we have the pup down-stay in a square and if they move they loose the square. We split into a yellow dog team and a black dog team. The yellow dogs won in the end. It was fun and it works on the dogs stay and dog distraction. Paris did really well, I was very impressed with her stays.

[Paris starting the game in the middle square.]

[Paris and Mara staying in their squares.]

[The baby of the group Sugar not so happy about her birthday hat but staying in her square still. If the pups are under 8mo their raiser can stay next to them but if they are over 8mo the raiser has to walk away]

Paris and Sugar staying on one side with Rafferty in the middle.]

[And Mara goes between Paris and Sugar for the block. Everyone staying so well.]

[Got two yellows in a row (Paris and Sugar) and then Rafferty in the middle square.]

[And Meade blocks Sugar and Paris.]

After that we played musical chairs where we walked around in circles and had the dog sit on a piece of paper when the music stopped. Paris' brother Peanut won that game.

After that it was time for pupcakes. I think the dogs enjoyed that the most!

[Paris waiting. . . patiently for her pupcake.]

[Peanut sitting and waiting for his pupcake.]

[Paris scarfing down her pupcake. Mouth open with crumbles coming out]

[Meade eating his pupcake.]

[Mara eats her pupcake.]

[Sugar (a 3 mo old very white little golden puppy) was quite impressive with her pupcake, she gobbled it down in one bite.]

[Moseley (10 mo old yellow lab) took his sweet time and made a big mess with his]

After everyone left I got to chat with Sarah for a bit and she even brought Paris a birthday present. Paris loves her new Nylabone and is currently laying at me feet gnawing noisily on her new bone. I'd say she likes it a lot. Thanks Sarah!

And that was the end. It was a very fun party and I am so glad everyone came. I think people and pups had a grand time and I hope to be able to do it again sometime.

PS. There were human cupcakes too, just so you know. :D