Finigan Bai-Cuf Eowyn
Hi guys.
So I finally got my girl home! She is such a sweetheart and really nicely behaved
Not one single accident in the house (yet) and she is good with the other dogs...
She is going to be my future showdog and I hope, if the healthchecks come out good, that I can breed her later on. If she develoups good, she has some amazing bloodlines I would like to continue
Anyways, a couple of pics:
So I finally got my girl home! She is such a sweetheart and really nicely behaved
Not one single accident in the house (yet) and she is good with the other dogs...She is going to be my future showdog and I hope, if the healthchecks come out good, that I can breed her later on. If she develoups good, she has some amazing bloodlines I would like to continue
Anyways, a couple of pics:
Comments
Thanks for posting some pictures. She is a beauty!
I love that one too, Casey
Jen
Thanks, she is really a great dog!
So far her brindle has lightened until about a month ago, so I'm not sure that she will get much lighter, but she is nowhere near adult ofcourse! So I can't really be sure...
A little snowpics from yesterday
And yes it is a horsepoo, she has dug up from under the snow, that she has in her mouth in the last pictures ;o)
Today I trained recall, but we are still on babysteps, so I just used treats to help her associate her name with something good and then afterwards made recall from a couple of meters away, with ham as prize. She did very well and I hope she will get good at recall, at least for a NK standard
As for the recall, I've discovered one thing that always works with Oskar: a squeeky toy! But he's toy obsessed! (and he's a pretty good boy overall!)
I haven't tried toys out yet, she doesn't seem really interested in them, but maybe I just tried the wrong toy
I really hope that I can manage to get a decent recall on her, but I guess it doesn't make it easier that I have to start from scratch with a teenager!!
But you're facing a particular challenge: you got your girl when she was already an adolescent, and so you're trying to deal with both her getting used to a new home, but also getting used to a new home in her most difficult period...so just remember, this will likely be the hardest period of her life. Right now, I'd spend as much time as possible getting acquainted in a non-judgemental way....can you just tolerate what she's doing now, and consider it a bumpy part of the road on your path to a true partnership? Because neither of you know each other well now, but you'll get there!
Probably now the most basic of all practice will work best: rewarding her for recognizing her name, etc as you're doing. And then move on to rewards for sitting, etc. The thing is, she may still be in a fear period, and in that fear period, she's had to move homes and recognize a new person, and thus training starts over in her mind...oh, now I have to do these things in the presence of scary new person/new environment....I guess if we really think how hard it must be to have everything we know disrupted: no longer to have parents/littermates with us and then suddenly be in a place that is wildly different than where we grew up, then perhaps that caution and panic dogs show might make more sense....
Anyway, I got caught up in my reply, but hope there might be a tidbit of use for you...;and in any case, she is gorgeous, and I think you'll do beautifully with her!
Thank you very much for your reply. I will work on the recall, but it would be soooo much easier if I had something I knew she liked. I mean I've tried sausage, chicken, cheese, treats (bought in petstore) and ham. The only treat she has been interested in for more than 5 seconds is the ham. So might try this for short sessions and see if it works...
But yeah, most important right now is that we get a bond and that she feels safe.