Training progress
I applied some of our new training methods today. Rufus seems to be taking to them well. Even Sophie, a notorious puller on the leash walked lovely at heal, so…
Category: Adorable dog stuff
A few resolutions
Rufus will be trained. Rufus will get to a place where he is less afraid of others Rufus and I will be able to run a few miles together without being goofy…
The Battle of Heat Vent Alley
When Sophie and Rufus are outside in subzero weather, they run around as if the temperature were nothing. It’s pretty impressive. But once they return to the house they…
We made it
Christmas is over, and Rufus survived boarding. He did it one previous time back in October for two nights but I was closer, in Colorado Springs. This time I was…
One
The puppy is one year old. This should be a seminal date in his maturation process. But he’s a puppy with a puppy brain so of course it means nothing…
Exquisite corpse of an orange thing
What is this? This orange thing in the foreground is a thing that Rufus chewed. I *think* it might have been a part of a broom that he took apart…
I always tell him he’d look good in anything
It’s less than fifteen degrees out, and the doodle-bug is having a blast running around the back yard, coat-free. I think I’ll take his respectable Republican cloth coat back to the…
The first night, part 2
Jumping back to April… The crate was not working that first night since Mr Whiny Pants (not his real name) didn’t like it, and I needed to get some sleep.…
Coat update
The first coat I got Rufus was pretty bad-ass looking, as dog coats go. It sort of had a tough-guy thing going. Sadly, it was too big and Rufus also…
Today, December 7
Jumping ahead to the present… It’s my mom’s birthday today! Happy Birthday! She’s in toasty warm Wisconsin, so I sent her wishes from toasty warm Colorado where we are enjoying…
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