Tsuzi (Cooper's housemate)
Cooper with Tsuzi
Julie with Cooper and TsuziCooper (Hammy) update:
Julie says: We were on another field trip yesterday (such gorgeous weather) to a friend in West Linn. Cooper kept stealing the big dog's Kong. He had a great time.
Tsuzi wasn't so sure but she warmed up eventually.
Chloe (Tiger) update:
Joan says: We have resolved the name issue of “Tiger”. The ship we picked is ALASKAN BEAUTY---the beauty part seemed very appropriate! And then her call name is CHLOE!
Suzanne's note: Joan and her family have been working to figure out the best schedule for Chloe and to manage the times when she is feeling particularly "sharky" around the boys. Joan's youngest son Conor is the most frequent target of Chloe's need to chomp things and since there are certain times of day that Chloe is more "mouthy" Joan is learning to keep her separate from Conor or have Conor give her a frozen stuffed Kong during times when she needs to be "tamed".
Ecko (Angel) update:
One Tuesday Ecko went home with some friends for the day. She made herself right at home and dragged their cat's play tunnel out into the middle of the room to play with. Kathy got an awesome video clip of furry little Ecko cramming herself into the little cat tunnel. Considering the ratio of puppy (big) to tunnel (small) Ecko could get through it at amazing speed! Ecko also visited with Kathy and Kendall's cat and walked across the field to the pasture to visit with a horse (from a safe vantage in Kathy's arms of course). I think that both humans and puppy had a pretty entertaining day.
On Wednesday my friend CJ picked Ecko and Decker up from my house and took them to an agility demo at an Elementary school. Apparently this demo is a pretty big event for the school each year with fully gated rings and matted flooring and several "waves" of kids that come to watch and meet the dogs. Decker had a wonderful time and got to meet and greet all the kids. Ecko watched the proceedings from her kennel, which CJ placed on top of Decker's kennel so she could see all the goings-on without being overwhelmed.
Mako
Mako is doing great. Sunday we had our 2nd puppy class and he was very comfortable with the other puppies. He ran around a lot and did great with all the other dogs. There were a couple of bigger/older puppies in the class as well as the teacher’s full grown Malamute and Mako was very interested in the bigger dogs.
Mako can sit very nicely on command and is doing pretty good on the “come” command.
We have had some rough nights though, he will go to sleep ok when we go to bed but around midnight or so he starts whining and barking, which we ignore. When he stops one of us will take him out, sometimes he has to go potty and sometimes he doesn’t, so we are not sure what the midnight whining is all about. We decided to see how he would do sleeping outside of his crate so we moved his doggie bed to the side of our bed and he seems to like that arrangement. He sleeps through the night and if he has to go out he whines to get our attention. Our bedroom is pretty well doggie proof so if he wanders during the night there isn’t much he can get into. I think he doesn’t like the little crate anymore, he struggles and goes into it very reluctantly. He doesn’t mind the larger crate, when we are all hanging out we keep the door open and he will go inside to play.
Mako and the cat are doing very well together. Alex, the cat, will play a little bit with him. They take turns chasing each other. It is fun to watch them play the chasing game when they are in our backyard. Alex can run a lot faster than Mako and it is funny to see Mako chasing Alex and then all of a sudden Alex will turn around and chase Mako.
Being a water dog, Mako decided to take a shower with me the other day. I had the shower door cracked a bit so he would know where I was and he decided to join me. He walked around the shower stall then left and a few minutes later he came back. He got totally wet and didn’t mind a bit. Helped wash out the dirt and peat moss dust as he has been helping me spread peat moss in my raspberry patch.
We weighed Mako on Saturday and he weighed 14 pounds. I still am trying to figure out just how much to feed him. The raw diet is not as easy as kibble to know how much to give him. We stopped doing the noon feeding as we give him a lot of treats when we are training/playing with him. When we were feeding him 3x a day he was not real interested in the treats we use for training. Wasn’t hungry enough I guess.
Tomorrow we are going to our beach cabin to introduce him to the ocean. Should be fun. I wish I had a digital camera so I could send you pictures.
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