Pets Place
This is Petz Place in New Philly. It is has new owners and they really stepped it up. The place is loaded with anything you could need for your pets. Django especially liked the rawhide bar. I’m going back down there and look for a sweater for Hope. That is Dixie the cat and she is looking for her furever home.
Hope
I live in an old farm house and upstairs( my bedroom is upstairs)at night it gets colder than the rest of the house. Hope is getting older and I want her warm so I will be getting her some sweaters. I thought I would start getting her comfortable wearing things. Although I’m not a fan of dogs wearing clothes, I saw awesome outfits on dogs during Halloween last year.
Fun run
Got my crew out for some exercise today. Nice day for it. 8 yrs later and Hope still circles to the right. She wouldn’t do good in NASCAR.
Kitty
My goal was to have him socialized before now so I could bring him in my house for the winter. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen. My house is just too loud and chaotic for him. Every fiber of my being wants him in the house, safe and warm, but the stress would be too much. He is safe at his current location. It is very quiet and he hardly gets disturbed. I put the trap out from time to time just to keep him comfortable going in, just in case. Hopefully by next winter things will have changed.
Kitty
This is my neighbors cat. 3 years ago I trapped 5 adults and 2 kittens and had them spayed and neutered. There are only 2 left. The rest either found homes or disappeared. The other cat is 100% feral and can never be tamed. I very rarely see him but I make sure he has food and water. This grey one is still a little feral. He wants to socialize but doesn’t trust yet. I have been coming here every morning. I started in the spring. I started hand feeding him. He is very picky. He doesn’t like any canned food. He doesn’t like beef of cheese, he only likes chicken. It can’t be cooked in a pan, it must be boiled. He no longer takes it from my hand so I but it on my legs. This way he has to make contact with my body and it brings him closer to me. I have finally made a little progress. At the end of the video, were you see him sitting next to me, is the closest he has gotten to me and stayed. Now that it is cold, I heat the chicken up so he has warm food in his belly. After he finishes his chicken he eats his dry food.
Having fun
The “recall” or come command is the hardest thing to get a dog to do, reliably. This is one of best uses of the ecollar. Your dog is able to run around, play or explore and you are able to call them to you, reliably. In the video is 8 month old Sam, and Shelby, a 5 month old mix. The big boy is Django.
Sam is crazy
The big dog is Django, the smaller dog is Shelby and the Lab is Sam. Sam is here for boarding. He ran into his owners knee and tore an ACL. An MRI was scheduled for today. I will admit I started to get a little nervous when he start running around.
Shelby
I would say 60-70% of the dogs I work with have some degree of submissiveness. A submissive dog is one that lacks confidence. Size is very important in the dog world. The bigger the humane or animal the dog is meeting the more fear/respect a dog shows. Submissive dogs tend to have more trouble meeting men. These dogs usually do better with women and children. Dogs usually give no respect to children because they are closer to their size and consider them a littermate or buddy. In this video my friend Diamond is showing the best way to greet a submissive animal. The dog is 6 month old Shelby, one of my new trainees. When Shelby came to my house he was a little afraid of me. I asked Diamond to greet him so I could gage how submissive he was. Diamond lowered herself to get closer to Shelby’s size, uses a happy voice and offers treats. As it turns out, Shelby is not as submissive as I thought.
Fall morning
Most of you know I stopped working with small dogs a few years ago. Every now and then I make an exception. Meet the exception, Gizmo. He a 6 month old Pug. I really enjoyed working with this little guy. He was very food motivated and easy to train. I have a couple of health issues and working with this small guy made me remember why I don’t work small with breeds anymore.
Cross walk
I stopped at the neighbors to check on their cats and on the way home I ran into an obstacle in the road.
