Skye

Skye came as a 13# puppy as seen in the play picture. She and her brother Arne (15#) were trapped at their den in a tree stump. Poor Skye was so terrified she jumped into a creek and nearly drowned in the freezing water. The shelter person was kind enough to follow her in and rescue her. And so began the first contact with the two leggers.<br/> The group was all unsocialized, which leads to a fast track of death. The shelters are so overwhelmed they have to work with the most salvageable dogs that will be adopted quickly. Unfortunately unsocialized dogs take a tremendous amount of time to even handle. The original intake was done with a cursory vet visit, they were all malnourished. The rescue that had originally called them into the shelter tagged the animals. This means they had a safe place to go. Unfortunately somewhere along the way, rather quickly,they were untagged. This means they go straight to euthanasia as they were unsocialized. The shelter cannot spend the money and time to try and help these animals. As a rescue, I felt it was the secondary failure for these poor dogs. So I decided I had to tag Mom, even though I had recent surgery and it was a little bit of a trial. Upon arrival I was a little surprised to see that not only had I wound up with a 1-year-old Shepherd female but there were two tiny puppies attached with her. My rescue generally does old dogs, large dogs like malinois and shepherds. There's so many of them. I haven't had to start puppies , I've only done one and that's my own. <br/><br/>So we started off from the very beginning as if nothing had been done for them. We started off with the parvo series which has to have an injection and then wait at least a 2-week period. This was for three different injections. During that time we also had to book with a spay and neuter clinic for all of them. That was a month out from their last vaccination. Post surgery we had at least a 2-week stay in order to make sure that the surgical sites did not wind up with any problems. And so here we are now, with big puppies. These are no longer tiny little malnourished things, we are about 8 months old now. The behavior of all of them is very much puppies. We train to the best of our abilities but they are definitely puppies. <br/><br/>And so begins the training and handling while everybody's healing. We have learned our name. We stop at the doorway every time so that we can get our paws dried just in case we're out in mud. Everyone's been groomed and has learned to come when I say come and to stay when we say stay before rushing out a door. Everybody has started spending loads of time inside, to date we have not had any accidents. Everybody starts squeaking or pacing a lot when they need to go out. They also sleep outside in the kennel just because I'm not here to watch and make sure that the behavior is maintained. They have never messed in the kennel which is a really good sign that they would alert but I still haven't gotten to keeping them inside overnight yet. Because all of them are puppies I watch them all the time. Even with the baskets of toys, the basket seems to be the most interesting toy of all. They just tend to look around and see what other stuff there might be that would be a lot of fun to play with. Everybody understands the leave it cue. We've all ridden in cars to town to show ourselves off . They visit the doggie bakery on leash. We walk around on leash a small amount in town, we do free walks with the two brittanies and Mom. Everybody checks back in doing circle runs and make sure that they know where I am. They get treats, they call back every time to their names. Since I ranch and have garden areas they follow me around as I'm doing my chores, never leaving very far to do anything, and checking in and playing in the same areas I'm at. <br/><br/>These three have become wonderful dogs. Anybody would be happy to have them around because they make me happy. Mom is only a little over a year old, she must have been bred when she was about 6 months, she too acts like a puppy. Although a little more concerned about where the puppies are. It seems that she has been handled a little more roughly and needs a very gentle approach. Arnie,the son, seems to act as if he's never been handled roughly, ever , and loves everybody and everything. Skye on the other hand is a little more shy. Once she learns to trust she's just as much of a love bug as anybody else. <br/><br/>In conclusion all of these guys are ready to go. The balance of the training is very little however you can customize them to whatever you would like. All of the medical needs have been taken care of. They're healthy and have papers to show it. They've been dewormed and de-flea monthly. I love having all of them around, but it's definitely time for them to go while they're still cute, while they're still puppies, while they're still trainable. If you want some beautiful well-trained well-behaved great personality young dogs these guys are the ones you want. They're waiting to be adopted by their forever person, I'm fine, but I'm definitely not there forever person. Skye and Arnie are waiting and ready for you. Give me a call, give me an email, give me a text and will be happy to talk to you about any specifics you might have. In the meantime we'll be hanging out waiting.

Skye came as a 13# puppy as seen in the play picture. She and her brother Arne (15#) were trapped at their den in a tree stump. Poor Skye was so terrified she jumped into a creek and nearly drowned in the freezing water. The shelter person was kind enough to follow her in and rescue her. And so began the first contact with the two leggers.
The group was all unsocialized, which leads to a fast track of death. The shelters are so overwhelmed they have to work with the most salvageable dogs that will be adopted quickly. Unfortunately unsocialized dogs take a tremendous amount of time to even handle. The original intake was done with a cursory vet visit, they were all malnourished. The rescue that had originally called them into the shelter tagged the animals. This means they had a safe place to go. Unfortunately somewhere along the way, rather quickly,they were untagged. This means they go straight to euthanasia as they were unsocialized. The shelter cannot spend the money and time to try and help these animals. As a resc

Skye came as a 13# puppy as seen in the play picture. She and her brother Arne (15#) were trapped at their den in a tree stump. Poor Skye was so terrified she jumped into a creek and nearly drowned in the freezing water. The shelter person was kind enough to follow her in and rescue her. And so began the first contact with the two leggers.
The group was all unsocialized, which leads to a fast track of death. The shelters are so overwhelmed they have to work with the most salvageable dogs that will be adopted quickly. Unfortunately unsocialized dogs take a tremendous amount of time to even handle. The original intake was done with a cursory vet visit, they were all malnourished. The rescue that had originally called them into the shelter tagged the animals. This means they had a safe place to go. Unfortunately somewhere along the way, rather quickly,they were untagged. This means they go straight to euthanasia as they were unsocialized. The shelter cannot spend the money and time to try and help these animals. As a rescue, I felt it was the secondary failure for these poor dogs. So I decided I had to tag Mom, even though I had recent surgery and it was a little bit of a trial. Upon arrival I was a little surprised to see that not only had I wound up with a 1-year-old Shepherd female but there were two tiny puppies attached with her. My rescue generally does old dogs, large dogs like malinois and shepherds. There