Category: Gizmo

Going Home

July 21st. The big day. He was just wait­ing for us to come for him. There was some play time. All the young­sters get­ting in on it. There’s a pile of chew toys under there some­where. Susan showed us a lit­tle of … 

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Puppy, Puppy, Puppy

(edit — this is old. I mean, real­ly. The pup­py already lives with us. It’s utter chaos.) I did­n’t intend it to hap­pen this way. I mean, I did intend to some day, per­haps not too long from now, get anoth­er Bou­vi­er. But … 

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Pool Time

Giz­mo was born in Yaki­ma. It’s hot in Yaki­ma. He learned to love play­ing in a wad­ing pool. Late­ly we’ve had some almost East­ern Wash­ing­ton tem­per­a­tures. So we’ve got­ten our own wad­ing pool out.

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Nosework for Puppies

Here’s some video of Giz­mo and and his lit­ter-mate Leda play­ing before their Nose­work class. Then Giz­mo and Lara do a run with a sin­gle (big) reward hid­den in the last box. Final­ly Leda and Geor­gia work a full course. … 

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1st Away Game

before we can switch from pup­py nose work (cook­ies and box­es) Giz­mo needs to do 6 search­es away from home or the train­ing facil­i­ty.  this is loca­tion one. the park next to the train depot and the police sta­tion in … 

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2nd Away Game

after obe­di­ence class. no he’s not very good at it. an before a bor­ing car rode to lyn­nwood to retrieve a for­got­ten cred­it card we did a quick 2 search­es on a load­ing dock behind the Barnes and noble in … 

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