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Lynne wrote:



dontcha just love it when things work out so nicely?

always! But this is one reason I have the format of puppy class that I
do. It's totally ongoing, open enrollment. I am adamant that it is NOT
a "mini Basic". This way, puppy owners can get the help and
socialization immediately, when they most need it.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:48:01 GMT, Janet Boss
wrote:

always! But this is one reason I have the format of puppy class that I
do. It's totally ongoing, open enrollment. I am adamant that it is NOT
a "mini Basic". This way, puppy owners can get the help and
socialization immediately, when they most need it.

Oh, well that's brilliant! My trainer basically has a Manners class for
puppies, same thing we're doing now with Roxy but with puppy play time. I
hope the puppy play is a decent portion of time.

Roxy starts her CGC class the same week, so we're going to be in class a
lot! I think I'm going to put her in Agility after that, if my daughter
wants to do it with her.

--
Lynne

We're following a modified vaccine schedule at the recommendation of the
breeder. Basically he will get CPV-2 +CDV at 6 weeks (already done) and
then Rabies, CPV-2 + CDV + DAV-2 + CPI at 12 weeks. In the "normal" aka
maximal approach, he would have had an interim set of boosters at 9 weeks.
Does that change your opinion of how safe this will be for him?

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Rabies at 12 weeks? I thought this was normally a 5-6 month vaccine?

on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:21:48 GMT, "MauiJNP" wrote:


We're following a modified vaccine schedule at the recommendation of
the breeder. Basically he will get CPV-2 +CDV at 6 weeks (already
done) and then Rabies, CPV-2 + CDV + DAV-2 + CPI at 12 weeks. In the
"normal" aka maximal approach, he would have had an interim set of
boosters at 9 weeks. Does that change your opinion of how safe this
will be for him?

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Rabies at 12 weeks? I thought this was normally a 5-6 month vaccine?

That is odd, now that you mention it. This vaccine schedule is here,
Program B (you have to register to see it, but it's free and worth the
hassle):

http://www.ivis.org/advances/Infect_...apter_frm.asp?
LA=1



--
Lynne

I hope you learn from our mistake. My new puppy came here in a
December. He joined the worst dog I ever had the displeasure of ever
keeping, or even knowing, a totally shut down B. Collie. WE heeded
the vet's advice too, not taking him to the pet store or park. Since
few of my acquaintaces would welcome a dog, especially a litlte puppy
not yet house trained, he had only the (horrible) B. Collie to learn
from. It was not a good thing. It was winter, so my usual trick
of walking the pup right when kids are out did not do any good. They
were inside because it was too cold. No socialization to be had
there.

If I were to do it again, I'd take a pup *someplace* even if it meant
taking a health risk. Of course our sitation was made worse by the
lousy example he had to follow. I had pulled her out of the pound and
after 2 years I was thrilled the day I was able to give her to a BC
rescue. But since she was not people-oriented, he is far less so
than his breed normally is too. Frankly, I wish I had waited until
she was gone in order to get him, and I also would never get another
pup in winter. But I was missing canine companionship (which she
certainly never provided) and it took *forever* to get her into the
rescue, they were so overloaded with BC's.

SD

SD

Well, I hasten to add that he turned out pretty well, in spit of his
poor start in life. He just isn't as friendly as I'd like. But after
about 5 minutes he will warm up to guests. All my previous dogs have
taken their cue from me, as to who was friend and who was foe. But he
seems to mistrust everyone until they've been here a few minutes.
Don't know why he changes his mind but he does. He's definitely
here for life.

The German Shep is a nice dog, but she cannot be trusted in the house
when I'm gone. She has to go to the kennel.

I've had my last rescue. Noble as it seems, mostly you are just
inheriting someone else's problem. Of course we'd all like to think
we are the one (and only one) who can turn the dog around, in most
cases it just doesn't work. Once they are past a certain age, I'd say
it's all over by the time they are 9-10 months old, certain things
are going to be chisled in stone and not changable.

SD

PS. I have a theory about Jerry. Who has time to write so much? A
prison inmate. I bet he is in one of those prison training programs
that train dogs so they become adoptable. No one else would have the
kind of time to devote to posting such hateful nonsense to people all
the time. And BTW, those prison programs select only young dogs to
work with.




On Mar 25, 2:02 pm, "digitydew" wrote:
I hope you learn from our mistake. My new puppy came here in a
December. He joined the worst dog I ever had the displeasure of ever
keeping, or even knowing, a totally shut down B. Collie. WE heeded
the vet's advice too, not taking him to the pet store or park. Since
few of my acquaintaces would welcome a dog, especially a litlte puppy
not yet house trained, he had only the (horrible) B. Collie to learn
from. It was not a good thing. It was winter, so my usual trick
of walking the pup right when kids are out did not do any good. They
were inside because it was too cold. No socialization to be had
there.

If I were to do it again, I'd take a pup *someplace* even if it meant
taking a health risk. Of course our sitation was made worse by the
lousy example he had to follow. I had pulled her out of the pound and
after 2 years I was thrilled the day I was able to give her to a BC
rescue. But since she was not people-oriented, he is far less so
than his breed normally is too. Frankly, I wish I had waited until
she was gone in order to get him, and I also would never get another
pup in winter. But I was missing canine companionship (which she
certainly never provided) and it took *forever* to get her into the
rescue, they were so overloaded with BC's.

SD

SD

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:52:14 -0500, Lynne
wrote:


I will take him on walks in the neighborhood (on asphalt at first), and
we'll visit nearby friends with dogs we know are healthy & vaccinated, but
I'm drawing a blank as to what else we can do.

You can take him anywhere they allow dogs, after he is four months.
We also invited people to our home to meet them. We took our 2 dogs
to the beach and their were exposed to lots of people there.


Amy
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