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January 2020 Issue: A dogs-in-art treasure we found hidden away for decades, and raising a Vizsla, weeks 30 and 31
IN THIS ISSUE ISSUE # 113 January 2020 Dogs In Art: Family history behind a print from British Victorian artist Thomas Blinks - A Treasure We Found Hidden Away For Decades How To Raise [...]
December 2019 Photos
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Family history behind a print from British Victorian artist Thomas Blinks
Zooka, Ed and I made our road trip to California to visit Ed's parents in November 2019. You might have read our post about that trip and our stops along the way. We had planned [...]
Week 31: turns 7 months old, how did that happen?! Dog adolescence is in full swing
Notes from Week 31: Adolescence is in full swing while we like to think of our dogs as "puppies" for a lot longer sometimes. . . puppyhood really ends by about 6 months Zooka is [...]
Week 30: teaching Zooka to use a scratchboard for nail filing, continue training and play dates
Notes from Week 30: Housetraining Week 16 (8/18) was last time we had an accident in the house Until this week. . . Back home for only a couple of hours, unpacking from our trip, [...]
December 2019 Issue: Full contact fetch, introducing your new puppy to your resident dog, and raising a Vizsla, weeks 25 through 29
IN THIS ISSUE ISSUE # 112 December 2019 Train My Dog: Zooka's new game: Full Contact Fetch! | Introducing your new puppy to your resident dog How To Train a Vizsla: Weeks 25 through [...]
November 2019 Photos
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Week 29: Zooka's big road trip #2! Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Week 28: a big field trip and a big test of his abilities in public this week!
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Week 27: 6 months old, vet visit, and an off leash play date!
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Week 26: focus on ramping up training and expanding field trips; plus more SNOW!
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Introducing your new puppy to your resident dog
Most of you know that we planned to bring Zooka home to big sister, Zuzu. After we lost Romeo in May 2018, we knew we would be finding a sibling for Zuzu once we'd had [...]
Zooka's new game: Full Contact Fetch!
Does your pup have a favorite game? Tug? Wrestling? Fetch? Chase? Zooka LOVES to wrestle. Preferably with like-minded individuals who can handle some rough and tumble play. That usually means larger breed energetic pups of [...]
Week 25: new cues for training, allowing more access in the house, and his puppy teeth are gone!
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
November 2019 Issue: Buried treasure…does your dog bury things, fear periods or sensitive periods for puppies, and more
IN THIS ISSUE ISSUE # 111 November 2019 Train My Dog: Buried treasure. Does your dog bury things? Zooka does! | Fear periods or sensitive periods for puppies – Zooka goes through one How [...]
October 2019 Photos
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Fear periods or sensitive periods for puppies – Zooka goes through one
Perhaps you have heard that puppies and/or adolescent dogs sometimes go through a "fear period" - though a "sensitive period" might be the more appropriate term. Puppies can go through a more sensitive period in [...]
Week 24: fear/sensitive period, continued work on social skills, and the baby teeth are almost gone!
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Buried treasure. Does your dog bury things? Zooka does!
Zooka is around 5.5 months old at this writing. This is the stage where we head into adolescence, so we can sometimes see behaviors crop up that we have not previously seen. This past week, [...]
Week 23: continued training w Heel, Fetch, Stay, etc.; first overnight human visitor, lots of play with other dogs
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]
Week 22: continued stay away from home and learning first steps to a fetch/retrieve
This post is part of our weekly series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind [...]