July 2020. One year ago we drove to North Carolina to pick up Zooka. On our way there, we did not know which puppy we would be bringing home and we did not have a name chosen. One year later, we are very happy with our choice. This month we had more visiting dogs with [...]
Do stuffed dogs make good play mates? Well, Zooka decided to give this stuffed dog the benefit of the doubt and find out. From the time Zooka was a young pup, he has had a large stuffed dog to play with, but that one looks like a stuffed toy and he clearly knows it [...]
Zooka is eleven weeks old and playing with Ollie, an adult Cocker Spaniel. Here is an example of an adult dog able to play well with a puppy. If your puppy is going to play with any adult dogs, you need to make sure they love puppies and play gently. Notice later in the [...]
This post is part of our 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 that different breeds might develop at different rates, so while you can do these things with any breed, your breed might [...]
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 starting to show some adolescent behaviors now and then getting into things he did not before able to reach things [...]
