One of the decisions as a breeder I was so glad I made was starting loose leash walking skills at 6-7 weeks of age. Wendy was the easiest and most receptive to loose leash walking as a puppy and now as 14 month old puppy, she is by far the easiest dog to walk. She maintains a loose leash on our entire walk and when she goes out to sniff, once she feels tension she immediately comes back. She has had minimal leash training past early puppyhood and I strongly believe this is from that very early training. She’s even easier to walk than my RACH dog. This is just a video example from our walk today at the start of our walk.
I love when a puppy is easy to give nail trims to. This didn’t come naturally; it took lots of work to get the puppies comfortable with a nail grinder. It took doing their nails every 3-4 days to get them used to it. All of the puppies for the most part will let me hold them like this and use a nail grinder on their nails and get all 4 feet done in one sitting 💪 no they are not drugged and no I didn’t wait until they were exhausted to try to do this. He actually had been awake from a nap for about 20 minutes and got a bath right before this.
So do nail trims early and often. Help your puppy get used to it. Keep them used to it and make sure they know it’s not something scary; just something routine. 😊
Not an exciting video but puppies are now starting to get meals in a crate with the door closed. They’ve hung out in crates with doors open in their weaning pen no problem, but they haven’t been in a crate solo with the door closed. Slowly working on building up comfort in the crate before they go to new homes in just under a couple of weeks 😭
Wendy Peffercorn giving some puppy kisses…granted I think she was looking for food, but I will still take it 🤣
Snow day! ☃️ The dogs love the snow and this is Garbage’s first snow, but he isn’t phased at all. Dogs were helping us move some firewood closer to the house.
Sitting in the heat for a couple of hours and Phoenix couldn’t wait to jump into that pool. She hit a new personal best of 21’3” 🤣 Good girl, Phoenix!
Something I love about Stitch’s temperament: Alex is chainsawing a few feet away and he would rather just hunt flies. LOVE LOVE LOVE how confident and care-free this puppy is 😍❤️
Stitch had a great time this weekend showing. Can’t wait to see what he does next weekend!
Did a quick sled down the hill with Tesla and Stitch. It ended about how I expected 🤣🤣🤣
We keep busy around here 😀
Snow day! We don’t get snow very often here, but when we do, it’s lots of fun! ☃️❄️
