New Puppy Day **MORE** Pics

TTony

What?

More photos?

You want more photos??

Axe_meister

My she is cute. Alot of energy I bet. We could never have a collie, far to active.

Our little Cocker-Jack-Shit is enough for us.

Myranda

Might seem like a downer - but having spent a week looking after someone's dog, I could suggest a short-cut for people wanting the dog-experience.

Break a lot of your stuff, cover other stuff in drool and give up at least an hour a day no matter the weather to walk through a park which is largely full of dog poo - oh, and occasionally pick up poo in a bag.

Turns out, that I'm less of a dog-person than I had at first thought.

Myranda

Oh, forgot to mention randomly knock things over if they're placed remotely near tail height

thumpingrug

She looks great.  Keep the pics coming.

Strat_a_tat_tat

Cuteness overload!!!... but that's always a good thing.  Great addition to the family, Tony.

johnnyurq

Awesome little chap and looks like a proper wee character.

duotone

She's Lovely, reminds me of picking up my labrador 3 and a half years ago. Wouldn't be without a dog now.

holnrew

I love collies. She's a babe.

breakstuff

Lovely pup there.

How much does it weigh.

Gassage

@TTony

Coming from good old Ludlow farming stock I learned very early on the best way of training a puppy is put it with an well trained adult dog.

It is so easy if you do that. The pup just copies.

TTony

Gassage said:

Coming from good old Ludlow farming stock I learned very early on the best way of training a puppy is put it with an well trained adult dog.

It is so easy if you do that. The pup just copies.

@Gassage

She's actually doing surprisingly well - learning quickly and seems to have settled in really quickly.  She's got 2 older boys to keep an eye on her ... the 2 on the right in this pic ...

The old girl on the left is the one that we lost a few weeks back.  If new pup is half as intelligent as she was, we'll be most happy.

Gassage

@TTony

I am a huge believer in the more time you spend socialising with your dog, the better the dog becomes.

Corvus

What a beaut she is... That pic of the three lined up there's great.

TTony

OK, this is probably enough of the photos for now ...

Introducing her to water ...

Myranda

TTony said:

OK, this is probably enough of the photos for now ...

Introducing her to water ...

SQUEEEEE!

I take back my previous negativity... she looks too cute to be grumpy about.

I've been looking after a naughty dog* so have been a bit anti-dog since.

*Of course she's naughty... owners are lazy and haven't even bought tennis balls to throw for the dog!

TTony

Myranda said:

I've been looking after a naughty dog* so have been a bit anti-dog since.

*Of course she's naughty... owners are lazy and haven't even bought tennis balls to throw for the dog!

So, really, you've been looking after a dog for naughty owners.

Myranda

TTony said:

Myranda said:

I've been looking after a naughty dog* so have been a bit anti-dog since.

*Of course she's naughty... owners are lazy and haven't even bought tennis balls to throw for the dog!

So, really, you've been looking after a dog for naughty owners.

That works!

She's not two yet, so hardly fair to assume she'd be totally well trained, but she is quite bad at things like "sit" even when there are no distractions... so when there's a cat down the road, an Alsation can pull pretty damned hard. And just walking her is like being dragged down the road. 

viz

Puppies are quite cute. Yours looks sweet. We got our first one a month ago, she's already quadrupled in size and started doing push-ups.

http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zps1490c22e.jpg

TTony

As dog owners, we're in a pretty small minority in believing that the dog should be trained to behave in the way that we want it to, not allowed to do what it wants to do.

By 2 yo, the dog should be pretty much trained - at least in all the basic commands (recall, sit, down, etc) and behaviours (not pulling on a lead).  It only gets harder to train as the dog gets older because they then have to unlearn the behaviours that they've already learned are acceptable (like not sitting, or whatever). 

Trying to train an untrained 2yo Alsatian (an intelligent and strong breed) is likely to need a lot of effort and probably some professional help.  But that depends on whether the owners are happy with the dog as it is - as I said, we're probably in the minority in having dogs that are (very) well trained.