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Okay, somebody needs to start this thread, so I'll do it! My pup was born 11/29/12. He comes home 1/24/13.

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Love your pictures of Gibbs, DanaRuns!! I can't wait to get Keisel a brother later when he's mature enough! I also agree I couldn't imagine having two 'Keisel's' at one time lol
 
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Radar Luv

This is Radar, aka Mr Independent lol. He is ALL boy, and is so different from our other golden Annie. He swan dives off the arm of the sofa, gets his head stuck in the toy box and will drag it across the room! Best of all he will put his paws on my shoulders and give me lots of kisses. Can't imagine life without him. Here he is at 8 wks and 11 wks
 

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As our pups hit the 6 month mark, I thought it might be interesting to compare some notes.

Sage is about 45 lbs and her adult coat is really starting to come in. We have some feathering on her tail and a few on her pants.

She is fully potty trained, I trust her in the whole house now. But I still crate when we are gone and at night, but we are going to attempt to let her stay out of her crate tonight in our room. She can still be mouthy from time to time, and has started to power chew on her toys. Not crazy chew em up and toss em out, but I believe her teeth are setting. She has developed a soft mouth, and if she really wants something will come up and take my hand very gently in her mouth and try to lead me to it. I do not want teeth on skin, but have found this is her way of communicating a need or want. Such as last night her water dish was empty, she came up and took my hand...I looked at her and told her NO TEETH, she dropped my hand and stared at me, so I said...ok, what do you want, to which she walked over to her water dish...OMG these dogs are so smart..

We are in Puppy II and will due Junior Manners next then it's obedience....I plan on training to a CGC and then seeing where else we might go if we both continue to enjoy it.

This puppy has captured my heart so fully and entwined her life firmly with mine. I hope the next 10-15 years with her last forever...
 
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Wonderful post, Mayve. Gibbs won't be six months until May 29th. He is 43.6 lbs as of today. He's in a breed handling class, but we have done no obedience work. Yet, he's the best behaved of our three dogs. Smartest, too. We no longer crate him or keep him in an xpen; he has the run of the house and yard, along with the adult dogs. However, by his own choice Gibbs still sleeps in his crate, which we have in our bedroom.

The only issue we have with Gibbs is that he is teething like crazy, now, and that makes him a little fussy sometimes. We give him frozen carrots to chew. I don't know if it helps, but he sure likes them. :)

Oh, and he's a pretty happy boy. :--heart:

 
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Ah I can't believe our babies are 6 months! Laika turns 6 months officially on Monday, and I'm getting ready to take tons of pictures to mark the occasion. She has gotten so big - 50 lbs at the vet yesterday - that DH and I often find ourselves calling her Chaya, and vice versa. It's scary how much they look alike these days...

We started agility classes 2 weeks ago, and she's such a natural (when she isn't bouncing off the walls trying to visit other dogs and people). Our trainer is amazed by her work drive, and we're very excited about what she may be able to accomplish down the line.

We just found out yesterday that she has both a UTI and giardia :(. That explains why she still needed to go out every 2 hours. We've been on antibiotics for 36 hours and her peeing has stretched to every 4-5 hours already!!! I love it. We haven't crated her in months (she's crated at agility while Chaya's in her class) and she's been great except for a couple of UTI-induced accidents. She doesn't destroy anything when we're gone, thank goodness. I'm pretty sure they both just sleep.

The bump on her head is slowly getting smaller, and we'll have to see if it'll completely disappear eventually. Her personality has blossomed - she is does everything with a goofy smile on her face so it's impossible to get mad at her. She is also a lot more affectionate than her puppy aptitude scores indicated. We love her so much!
 
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Gibbs is 5 1/2 months old now. He still looks very much like a puppy, and only weighs 43 lbs., while his brother looks very grown up and impressive, and is bigger. I think it's because we had Gibbs on the Hovan Slow Grow Plan, which retarded his development, so he's behind other puppies his same age. This is what he looked like yesterday


(And *** is up with his coat here!? Lol!)








 
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How are all your pups doing in terms of housetraining? Laika is generally really good (especially considering she had a UTI for who knows how long), but sometimes, right after a nap, if I don't get her out right away and she starts playing, she'll just end up peeing inside the house. I'd say this happens about once a week. It's usually my fault for trying to stretch out her pee breaks, when I know that she probably needs to go since she just woke up/drank lots of water.

Oh, in other news, Laika chewed her first shoe today :(. I left our coat closet door open when I left this morning, and 3 hours later I come back to a chewed up heel. Again, all my fault, but I sure hope this is a one and only time thing.
 
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We have been very lucky with Sage, she doesn't have accidents and can hold it forever, although we don't let her. She goes to bed about 10pm and DH gets up at 530....sometimes she will go out right away and other times she comes and visit's me in bed until 7am....
 
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I can't believe Keisel is 6 months old!! I feel like it was yesterday he was peeing on the floor and nipping my feet for attention!! haha. It's amazing how much they learn with consistency from us. I am so proud of how well behaved he is, everyone compliments me when I take him out how calm he is for a puppy. I love his temperament and watching his personality grow as he gets bigger. I keep trying to picture how he will look as an adult and he just get's more handsome each and every day.

As far as potty training, he hasn't gone in the house in over two months.. and that time it was right after swimming and he was at the door and I didn't get there in time. I keep him in the crate during the day sometimes and he's able to be in the crate for 6 hours with no issues. It's such a big relief knowing that he's sleeping not upset and I'm not anxious about him loose getting into stuff. I know eventually I'll let him loose in the house but not yet.

I love seeing all the pictures of all out 6 month old puppies! Make sure to take great head shots so you can put them side by side from now and then when they turn 1!! I can't wait! :)

Forgot to mention - Keisel has grown the confidence to jump in from the side of the pool now instead of the first step! :)
 

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Murphy turned 6 months and 50 lbs on May 17th and he is just so wonderful and I love watching all the changes taking place as he grows.

He is crate free at night and has been for about 2 months and although we crate during the day during work, we have started letting him stay out of the crate when we go out for up to 3-4 hours and we have had no issues, except for a paper towel which gave it's life so that Murphy would not be bored. LOL

He is completely house trained, with one accident a week ago which was completely my fault. He had been playing hide-n-seek with my step son and had not gone out in a few hours, when I hear my step son say "Murphy, No!" Also, later my step son said that Murphy had gone to the stairs to go out but when he approached ran the other way.

Murphy has learned a lot and his training is going great. Two areas we're still working on is recall and not trying to jump when there's food involved. Anyone else's puppy show stubborn moments when you try to get them to come? We have staring contests sometimes when he's tired and won't go for a potty break or won't come back in from outside.

Finally, we're embarking on our next big change. We just installed a dog door. Murphy loves this dog door game and is using the door like a champ. We're still working on him using it by himself so I don't have to walk to the basement with him to go to the bathroom. But, it's only been a day.

All in all... I love this goofy, handsome, smart boy more and more each day.


 
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Clover was 6 months on the 20th of May. She was 43 pounds as of last week. She's beautiful, sweet, energetic, increasingly lovey, wild at moments, intelligent, eager to please, and a whole lot more.

I'm really starting to see her coming into the "dog" she'll be rather than all wild and crazy puppy. She's started just lying around at our feet and cuddling with us on the sofa. Not that she wouldn't jump up and chase a ball until your arm fell off, if you were so inclined to throw it for her.

Her training is going well. She's pretty well potty trained. She may have an accident once every few weeks. It's usually our fault, not hers.
Basic obedience commands are down pat. However, I don't trust her recall enough to be off lead in the park. It's great around our home but I'm not ready to try it outside of her safe area.
Leash walking is good. We're working on getting her loose-leash perfected. She's still a little sniffy, she likes to sniff around behind me a little when we walk but she's doing better every day.

I think her biggest issue is counter surfing. I've tried spraying her with water, that just gave her the zoomies. We've tried rattling a coffee can full of coins, she just got used to the sound after a few times. I've tried the empty soda can pyramid, she just saw the fallen cans as toys. She responds well to "off" but doesn't really show much impulse control when it comes to not checking out the counters in the first place.

Above all, she's very truly a joy. Our whole family is head over heels for her. We love our girl so much.
 

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Gibbs turned 6 months on May 29th, so good time for a progress check.

Completely housebroken. Yay! :) I think the last accident he had was April 6th, the day after we moved to a new house.

We invite him up on the bed with the other dogs and cats, but he only stays for a couple minutes, then wants to go sleep in his crate. Otherwise, he is out about with the other dogs all day. No more x-pen or crating during the day.

He weighs 48.4 lbs. and stands 19.5" at the withers. That's a little below what his siblings are at. We had Gibbs on Rhonda Hovan's "slow grow" plan for joint and bone development, so he's a little behind in growth, but catching up now. But he's got good structure and he is very sound. He had his first show weekend at 6 mos. and 1 day old, and won his class both days (see pics below :) ).

Gibbs is the easiest puppy I've ever had. I didn't lose a single shoe, and he never chewed furniture or an electrical cord, or anything other than his (numerous) toys. He's so smart! Definitely the smartest dog I have, and smarter than all but one other I've ever had (who had a 300 word vocabulary, knew nautical terms, could learn individual items by name, and was capable of making choices based on verbal alternatives). He's incredibly biddable. Learns very quickly. Is very attentive. And his personality is eager, joyous, confident, affable and enthusiastic. His big loves are water and tennis ball, and particularly combining the two! :D

I have fallen so head over heels for this dog. :--heart:











 
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My November 4th Baby - Robbie

Ambertru's Anticipate the Rush - November 4, 2012..... known as "Robbie"
 

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Lightning!

Hey there! I guess I should give an update for lightning since it's been 5 months since I posted anything about her!
I've had lightning since 12/21/12, and she was born November 2nd! She's gotten so big over the past 7 months, and weighs at roughly 70 lbs (67), and measures up to 22 inches from her shoulders (her daddy was humongous).

She's been a breeze to handle, surprisingly for my first dog too. I trained her myself, and besides when her babyhood rival Hazel (my cousin's dog, 2 months older) comes over, she's entirely manageable and listens to any command I've trained her to do! The one thing I will say is that housebreaking was hard for me as a first time owner, but she's literally had 9 accidents total since she's been with me, and her last one was in February! But oh boy, I literally carried her out frequently while training "potty," as to protect my parent's investment in a luxury rug (which they casually decided to put in the most trafficked portion of our home), and she got the hang of it REALLY quick. Honestly though, she lacked the common sense of most dogs and pups while she was growing up, and would literally do anything regardless of her surroundings (she felt like running, so she would run until she was done with the feeling or something stopped her. MOST times until March, it happened to be a wall or a door). But now that I've let her play with the kids from around the block regularly (3-7 years old), she's gotten the hang of being calm and controlled before going wild (Unless someone has a tennis ball or Hazel is around, then ALL hell breaks loose).

Honestly though, she loves her tennis balls and dragons!

To those of you who have had trouble with your goldens demolishing any and every chew toy (including antlers), look into these chewguard toys from amazon:

Go Dog Chew Guard

She's had three of these for 4 months and none have had any significant damage aside from the tags being ripped off.

Good luck with your "Golden Endeavors!"
 

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