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Dogs & Stuff (Formerly Doodle rides Shotgun)

jill jackson said:
My female pit bull, Zoey with her German Shepherd x Texas heeler boyfriend Koda Bear. They're bored inside on a nasty rainy winter day.

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Now these two are such a snug pair! I so want my girl, Daisy, to have a companion as your two dogs enjoy. She came to me at three years of age needing to be re-homed because she made the resident dog of that 'new' home anxious. I get it ... and suspect her socialization must have been lacking in the early years ... and we are working on it steadily. Dog parks, dog friendly stores, everywhere we go ... she is meeting new people and other dogs. Exposure! She's big and curious and once I satisfied myself that she is not a fighter or a biter the real fun began.
 
Golden doodle too. Super snow fan

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taldesta said:
Now these two are such a snug pair! I so want my girl, Daisy, to have a companion as your two dogs enjoy. She came to me at three years of age needing to be re-homed because she made the resident dog of that 'new' home anxious. I get it ... and suspect her socialization must have been lacking in the early years ... and we are working on it steadily. Dog parks, dog friendly stores, everywhere we go ... she is meeting new people and other dogs. Exposure! She's big and curious and once I satisfied myself that she is not a fighter or a biter the real fun began.
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Zoey the pit loves Koda, because he's the only dog I have that will hang with her playing. She's much too rough for the others. You might try to introduce your Daisy to a younger dog, that would be submissive to her. Probably a male would be best. In my case it had to be a male, for Zoey's buddy, because she's intolerant of female dogs.
 
jill jackson said:
Koda hanging on the lure. (at eight months) He's a hard dog to use a flirt pole with because he catches it so often, then I have to seperate him from it.

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Thanks :thumbsup: ... how I wish Daisy took such an interest in toys of any kind. We're working on it.

Releasing the energy! A daily challenge with Daisy who is such a joyful dog ... loves the run, pounce, chase and 'be chased' of dog friends at the park. Yet her lack of confidence shows when she encounters a dog who won't play with her. She plays best when she is in with say 8 - 10 active dogs, always finding someone to interact with. The constant exposure is seeing much improvement, glad to say. I would love to know her early life though. My sense is that she was very well treated, trained and well loved ... I am her fourth home and can understand that her size and energy did not work for others and respect the decision of her last person to place her in a home with no other dog (the last of my little dog family had died of old age/cancer) - she made a tearful decision to part with Daisy so her own dog would live his best life. I am long retired and Daisy is my job :)

Often we dogsit my son's dog Oreo. He's a lab cross, and old boy. He loves every person and creature, young and old ... and Daisy makes him very anxious! Observing her demeanor is constant in social situations with other and when I see her stiffen to look at or chase another dog (especially the submissive, young ones) as though they are rabbits ... well, I err on the safe side. One on one, not so good. With her size and speed, she loves to intimidate the bejeebers out of them. My take is that her lack of confidence makes her a bit of a bully ... but one who does not fight or bite (thankfully).

On leash reactivity (or when she spies another dog from the car) is another thing we are working on. Not going the ecollar route. And getting her interested in even picking up a toy is a challenge too, mainly because I want her to drain some energy playing fetch.

I will not give up on her and if I can learn some new training tricks - so can she!
 
Koda is all herding breeds and I've never had such a toy oriented dog. It's all about he'll chase anything that moves. He's a retrieving machine and whip smart. Extra hyper and super drive. The people who had him bought him as a puppy and tried to keep him exclusively indoors, with no outside area. That lasted six months before they had him on Craigslist looking for a new home.
 
Agreed ... there is such joy in their energy and when it goes unabated - look out!
 
Glad to see Daisy, she's one lucky dog! Brie turns one tomorrow, can't believe how time goes by. These pictures were taken a couple of weeks apart. Now that she's a year old we're getting a good idea of how big she'll be, right now she's 33 lbs, so not much bigger. She still loves her morning visits to the dog park she plays really hard and is the smallest of her buddies. She's got a reputation where new folks say "Oh, that's Brie, we've heard about her". She was spayed last week and trying to keep her quiet for ten days is not easy!




 
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Happy First Birthday ... cutie pie Brie 😁 ! Looking beautiful ...
 
The first ice fishing hut we've seen towed off Lake Nipissing glided past the cabin this morning! Season for all species ends on Mar 15 and all huts must be off the ice on 31st. Spring.

So ... Daisy thought things might just get interesting on our lake walk - and they did. No, she did not get to keep this one - it got away 😎



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Well, again today Daisy and I hit the dog park and all went well. On our way home we ventured over the muddy, pot-holed springtime car killer 'track known as road' (just another Canadian country road in March)... to our destination at the Cranberry Trail parking lot - which was almost full ... as usual. This is a trail where chickadees pester to be hand fed and spend more time perched on human children than in the air.

So with all the families and dogs ... perfect exposure for Daisy as we work on her on-leash reactivity (the barking, lunging display of interest she shows in other dogs while on leash). More on this incident later - I am busy tending to bandaging my left hand - leash burns!

Here's yesterday's clip from our off-leash experience on this trail offshoot. In March temps the tramped path has traction, off-path you sink. Two of us on a narrow pathway. Daisy goes into her 'joy run' mode. Several passes go well ... but then I lower the camera angle, Daisy can't see my bent knees hidden by my long coat and POW! Good grief, I love this dog!

 
Yesterday's hike called for tall rubber boots indeed. Spring flooding in the backwoods makes for some great habitat for returning birds and animals out of hibernation.

All the best sniffs of course. Busy, busy beaver sniffs. And a huge pond for the wild geese - just a perfect dog day :)

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Shake it!

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Daisy and I have put in our notice at our over winter accommodation as planned ... and we'll be hitting the road camping on May 1st! Hummingbirds usually arrive around 'May 8' so the weather may need a little tent heater help at the outset. We are prepared.
 
Wonderful pics of Doodle at Play! Go Brie :thumbsup: ... am writing on laptop from tent at this moment ... where Daisy sleeps again after venturing forth for early morning 'chipmunk rounds' - temps hovering around freezing with gusty winds but sunshine all day long.so t-shirt temps mostly to enjoy.

On the road again, She loved her high perch on camp bedding (including her own) belted in at dash level as she rode from our over winter accommodation in cabin to first camp of season. Only her legs are buzzed so far - what a mudder! - but all the fur will be going shortly.

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Snug in her sleeping bag

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Let's get the Doodles back! This was the other day after Brie took off chasing a turkey. She was gone for 1/2 hour, we walked looking for her but no luck and then she was back. She was muddy, tired and happy! How's Daisy doing?

 
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