My Foster Sister--Willow

UPDATE/NEW PHOTOS BELOW

Well, she's here!

Mom got the call last night to come by the shelter today to check out my new foster sister--Willow. She's four months old and 32lbs. She's not nervous shy, but just very cautious shy. The shelter says she like other doggies though, so that's good.

She walks good on a leash with mom, which is a plus. Dunc and I only got to meet her for about five minutes, just so we could see her, sniff her and know what she was.

Right now she's passed out in her crate in the living room, getting used to all the house sounds and smells. I guess she's sleepy, she's had a big day so far. She hasn't eaten or drank anything yet, but mom said she just needs time to "get used to her surroundings" or something.

So, I'm going back out to play in the yard while she does this. Here's some quick pics, mom will get some better ones when she starts to move around.

UPDATED PICS

She likes to follow me...I have a minion!!!!

She is awed by Dunc's coolness!

Doesn't she look like she LOVES my kisses??

Class is umm...Loud

Hey everybody! Thanks for the words of encouragement for our possible foster...we're still waiting to hear if we can get her, but mom is anxious to get this shy girl out of the shelter FAST! to start helping her get socialized and happy!

In other news, we started class back last night....and guess who was there?? Chewy!! He made it! Mom didn't see his mom at or-ee-in-tation so she was afraid they weren't coming back, but they were there last night. Chewy's mom hurt her foot in ROTC and then Chewy got sick last week by getting into some people's chocolate...which is not good for us puppies. But both are getting better and we were so happy to see them last night!

I actually felt really bad for Chewy, he got put in the group of "barky" dogs. OMD they barked...and barked...and barked...and barked...you get the idea. It was a Jack Russell and a Chiuaua and man they were going at it! It was soooo loud. The trainers said next week they were going to bring spray bottles to help control the barking. Thank god!

I did good though, I only got nervous at the start of class. By five minutes in I was fine. I was also very happy to see Dr. Vet! I sniffed her to make sure it was Dr. Vet/Trainer and yep, it was. I even gave her kisses....nothing like kissing butt to get ahead if you know what I mean...wink wink.

Mom is feeling a bit better. Dad drove us to school last night. Mom says now she feels like she can't make her ears pop...this sounds scary to me, but apprently she needs to pop her ears. I tried to make her laugh this morning by running around with dad's shoe, shorts and wrestling Dunc's dog bed. She did laugh, but I know she's not quite 100 percent yet.

The plan is to do some tracking this weekend so I'll update you with my progress then with photos! Have a great Friday all!

Update

So this is what I've found out...

1. It's not bananas foster, but fostering a dog that we might be doing (although I do like bananas!)

2. It's a little 4-month old GSD girl who is at the local humane society who is NOT doing well there. She's very shy and needs to be socialized. Her former person turned her in saying she couldn't "afford her" and left. Boo people!

3. She is supposed to get spayded this week, then hopefully we'll know more about when we might get her. Mom already has someone who may be interested in her, but mom wants to work with her a bit, giving her all the skills she needs to be a happy puppy girl!

That's all I know for now. The waiting is killing mom and dad. Dad said if this goes well, we may look into fostering more dogs in the future. But mom said Dunc and I have an important role in this too...showing this little girl how to be a good puppy to her people and how to have fun! We can do that! Oh, and if any of you fostering peoples have any tips for mom and dad, feel free to share!

In other news, school starts back tonight. I'm preparing myself to see Dr. Vet as now Dr. Vet the Trainer! Mom is not 100 percent after getting a major sinus infection, so Dad may drive us. Paws crossed everything goes well. Mom's kept up my training everywhere we go, and I can now do sits and downs even when I'm nervous.

That's about it. I played nurse yesterday to mom and I'm ready to get my backpack and back to school. We've also started my tracking again, I'll post more about that hopefully with some pictures this weekend.

Possible Surprise...

Hmm...mom and dad had an interesting conversation this morning...I'm confused.

Mom and dad said the Easter Bunny may be bringing me a late present. There are some details to iron out (I don't see an ironing board though), but they said something about banana "foster" and something about a "little girl" needing some help and how I'd love to have a playmate...

I'm going to have to do some super inspektion to figure out what's going on....

Easter Goose?

I hope you guys are having a great Easter! The weather here is beautiful and I was antsy this morning...I wanted to do something! So, mom suprised me and took me to the creek! Yay!!!

I was all happy and splishy splashy when I saw something!

At first I thought it was some sort of funny stick, but it turns out it was a goose! Don't gooses lay eggs and don't we eat eggs on Easter? I had to learn more!

I thought I'd stalk it...I mean, what silly goose could see a 70 pound, black, giant German Shepherd coming at it? Seriously, that must be some super-night vision goose!

Yeah, so, this was one of those gooses. It saw me and flew away. No easter eggs, no cadbury eggs, just some poop that mom wouldn't let me eat.

So then we just played fetch in the water with sticks and mom TRIED to get some sun on her white legs. Come to think of it, maybe that's what scared the goose away! I mean, you can see thsoe white suckers from space! I stick my tongue out at mom and her goose scaring legs!

All and all it was a lot of fun. I missed the creek! With no more rains and warmer weather I hope we get there a lot more!

A lot of Quality Time with Dr. Vet

Where do I start? Let's just say, I'm going to be seeing A LOT of Dr. Vet for the next few months...but this isn't a bad thing. I think...

Mom went to my OB or-ee-in-tation last night. Come to find out, only two dogs from our class of 12 passed. But only two other dogs (and mom and I) have returned to re-do the class. She saw some of our old trainers who said they were glad we came back, even their dogs had to re-do basic OB, so we dont' feel so bad now!

Anyway, mom saw Trainer Beth (who we also found out is president of our dog club!) who will not be teaching our class this time. Boo! But then we found out, while she won't be TRAINING us this time, she'll be IN our class with one of her new foster dogs! Trainer Beth will be a classmate! How cool is that?!? So now I know two other dogs and their peoples and trainer Beth.

Then mom broke some major news...our new trainer is Dr. Vet!! WHAT THE CRAP?!?! We've seen her up there with her dogs in Novice II, but she's actually teaching our OB class this time! I think that's pretty cool. Dr. Vet will now know me inside and out (literally!).

So today, mom actually took me to Dr. Vet to recheck my elbow to see if I needed to go to the ortho-pee-dic Dr. Vet. She dropped me off and around 2 p.m. got the phone call to come pick me up....and the news is......

MY ELBOW IS HEALED!!

Dr. Vet said there are no issues. She thinks maybe it was either where I was still growing or maybe I had a small fracture or something, but it's all gone. My elbows also so NO signs of displaysia and I'm all good to go!

I was still a little loopy, but mom and Dr. Vet were talking about seeing each other next week when I go to school. Dr. Vet said she's never trained one of her patients, so she's interested to see how I do seeing her without the white coat.

How will I respond? I'll respond by keeping my booty away from her in case she wants to stick anything up it!!

So to recap, my elbow is great but I'll still see Dr. Vet each week for eight weeks at school. I think I can deal with this. At least we know half of the class already! The rest of my classmates consist of a chi, a Bernese Mountain Dog, a Jack Russell and a chow mix. I'm pretty pumped for school now!

Save-Anna and I got Crabs!

Hello! Mom and dad are back from Save-Anna, George-ia! I'm so glad they are back. Duncan and I greeted them last night with lots of woofs, licks and tail-butt wiggles! Simon howled like a fiend, but he just wanted some canned catfood....silly kitty.

I'm happy to report there were no kitty-alien furniture destruktion incidents. Nothing in the house was harmed during mom and dad's departure or upon their arrival. Mom said she was VERY proud of me. I was very good with my puppy sitters and was a good girl! Since I was so good mom brought me a present--a pink CRAB from Save-Anna!

It doesn't have a squeaker in it, but it's still fun. I carried it to bed last night. Mom awoke to find him (and me) sleeping on the pillow next to her. Apparently seeing a pink crab staring at you first thing in the morning is a quick way to get mom out of bed!

Mom and dad said they had fun, they saw lots of pretty buildings and ate some good noms. One of the places they really liked was an old Catholic church--where peoples go to worship God (who has a lot in common with dogs in my humble little doggy opinion!). Mom said the cathedral was gorgeous!

The city was all abloom with flowers. Dad got this photo of mom near a beautiful tree. There were tons of parks in the city and mom said it was soooo dog friendly! There were puppy dogs everywhere which made them miss me and Dunc....but it was great to see such a dog friendly place.

Then it happened! Mom and dad were surrounded by GIANT (ie FAT!) squirrels in the park! At one time, mom counted at least 10 around one tree!

What to do thought mom?!!? Then she remembered Anna always carries a big stick to ward off squirrel attackers, so she did her best Anna impersonation!

Wow, Mom is strong! Okay okay, mom is goofy but it worked!

So now they're home and all is okay with the world. Mom goes to OB or-ee-in-tation tonight to find out who my doggie instruktors are and then tomorrow is off to Dr. Vet. Boo! But the weather is supposed to be gorgeous and I'm ready to spend time with my peoples! Oh, and I might get an Easter Egg this weekend...SCORE!