Learned to Learn!

Limit has officially learned to learn! I am so proud! :-D Tonight we finally got a successful puppy handstand! His core is slowly building muscle so it has been tricky but he clearly finally understand *what* I am asking for him to do! :-) Love it! We also did some perch and some pivoting both directions.

Crate Config

With Ike gone, we revamped the crate configuration in the Element. Now everyone is in separate crates and there are three on the platform instead of two. We have the entire under platform and area behind the passenger seat for gear and packing. This makes life a LOT easier. Click on photo for  notes/labels of where everyone fits.

Herding Instinct Test

Introduced Limit to a small herd of sheep today to see if he had Herding Instinct - boy, did he! He did great, was very confident (loud!) and didn't try to bite any sheep :-D I was incredibly pleased and the trainer thought he would be able to trial if I wanted as well.

Running his mouth...

More photos are HERE.

His turn was slightly shorter due to the sheep deciding he was small and they could probably take him...

Side note - if his "strong" side can be determined by herding, Limit is going to be a left turner on his flyball box turn ;-)

Family Scratch Off!

We had a family "Scratch Off". We were challenged to teach all five dogs in five days to dig on command. At least 4 scratches in three seconds. We succeeded! Of course, we turned it into a competition.... ;-)

Limit was the hardest to teach this to for several reasons. 1. He doesn't have a clear understanding of the marker system yet. 2. He has no patience and gets locked into temper barking. 3. His attention span is nil LOL

I finally succeeded in a breakthrough when I propped the white lid up on my body and marked for sliding down it with his front feet. I slowly lowered it and then when he was understanding he was to do *something* with his feet and the lid, I added frustration (my hand with food just barely out of reach underneath) and we got some paw hits which I rapidly turned into scratching. What a smarty!

2.5 Months/11 Weeks Old

16 lbs
16" tall

He is sooo cute!

More pics HERE.

He's changed so much in such a short time!

More Limit & Sunshine

Did I mention Sunshine is available for adoption? She's pretty cool! :-)

Here they are digging a hole and trying to stuff each other in it....

Muddy puppies!

  Crazed joker!

More puppy burying photos HERE.

Oh and his ears? Yeah, they're up. 100% up. I missed it :-( Glad he was with a fellow photographer who could show me as it happened!

Limit at Lies'

This weekend Limit stayed at Lies' house and had a lot of fun playing with her foster puppy, Sunshine. They are a perfect match for each other and Limit is learning boundaries and the proper way to take a correction (from Lies' adult males as well!). It's a perfect set-up!

Crazy Kelpie!

More puppy play-fighting HERE.

Then I get a message....I'm gone three measly days and his EAR IS UP!!! I can't believe I'm missing out! Thankfully, she takes loads of pics so I can see it!

But, sometimes he looks like this! OMG I hope I have time to get some one-ear up photos before they're both up permanently!

More ear photos HERE.

Brief Park Trip

Still hot, humid, disgusting. The dogs have been cooped up for too long so we took them to the park to run. No toys or food or anything to *make* them want to run, just let them go until they got too hot and then we packed back up and headed home into the a/c.

 Hello legs!

A glimpse into what he will looks like when his ears come up.

I love this color on him!

Red dogs.

Boys will be boys :-)

 Mirror images:

 

Full pack photo fail...

The rest of the pictures are HERE.

Basement Training

Tonight we worked on: rear-end awareness - putting back feet on an elevated platform, leg weaving and find-it with recall. He's getting pretty good about putting his back feet up on the platform :-) And he's a wicked fast lured leg-weaver.

He Swims!

Limit went to the river and he came right in after me :-D What a cool little guy!

North Again

It was so hot at my parents' when we went for our visit that the pups mostly laid under the shade trees with the humans.

Agility Again!

Today in agility I introduced him to: jumps the tire and contact awareness.

Agility Intro

I introduced Limit to agility today! He is going to be a natural! He is super confident on all of the obstacles - he's soooo fun!

Today he was introduced to: dog walk, chute, tunnel, A-frame and we finished up with tugging and enjoying toy by Mom.

Two Month Pics

Limit is 2 months old/9 weeks old this week! He is 14 lbs and 13.5 inches tall :-)

With me :-)

What a stud!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER!

The rest of his 2 month photos are HERE.

Protection and Training

Kastle ran in his first flyball tournament on a team this weekend. Of course Limit came too. He was great. On the way home from that, we stopped at Schutzhund training and I let him come out and do some puppy biterag stuff. He he had a blast!

When we got home, I started his basement training sessions. He has a bit of puppy ADD so I did a lot of moving around/fun stuff to keep him with me and engaged. I introduced the perch, a small elevated board, the mini-A-frame (which he started doing a boxturn off of on his own!), chasing the hand/spinning, restrained recall and ended the lesson with some fun tugging!

At the Park

I brought Limit to the park today (8 week pics!) to meet a couple of friends and a couple of dogs. He is so darn cute! Ears are now attempting to come up...

This never fails to make me smile!

More stinkin' cute pictures are HERE.

Family Photos

I need to stop trying for group shots LOL They are always a disaster! It was extremely hot, extremely humid and I waited as late as I could for it to cool off and still have sunlight.

The outtakes...

The keepers.