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Goldens born in August 2010

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Is there a thread for puppies born in August? If not would anyone be interested in joining me and Oscar..born on the 17th:)
 
#31 ·
We have sit down for the most part except when he is really, really distracted. Stay we are currently working on. Cajun is doing well on that as long as there are no distractions.

We're also bell training to go potty and he's doing pretty well at it at 10.5 weeks...I'm pretty happy :)
 
#32 · (Edited)
Chili knows sit and leave it. I inadvertently taught him that down means get in attack mode and lunge after the food. We're working on reprogramming that one. :) He's getting the idea behind the crate command, but it will only work with food in hand. Last night we started the stay command. No real progress in the first session.

We have noticed now that he's getting comfortable with the neighborhood, his leash manners aren't so perfect anymore. He's great in unfamiliar surroundings, but in the neighborhood he's always lagging or charging ahead. So it looks like we'll have to work on that too. Potty training is fine with a crate, outside the crate, I just don't think he's grasping the concept yet. Well, maybe he does, but he doesn't see the need to hold it like he would in his crate, so while he's good for 3 hour stretches inside the crate, outside the crate 1 hour is the most I'll see him hold it.
 
#33 ·
You know, my wife wanted to try that bell training too, but somehow I can't see him treating it as anything other than a toy. I think *I* need something more obvious because it's hard for me to differentiate his different signs: I don't want to be restricted to the dog bed and crate, I'm sniffing and exploring, I want water, I'm cranky and really need sleep but don't want to sleep yet, I want to follow you and see what you're up to and finally, I really gotta go pee but you're too dense to understand me!
 
#34 ·
For us, after about 4 days at home, Cajun started going to the back door and whining when he wanted to go out and most of the times, he'd go potty so I knew he was catching on to housetraining. That's when I got the bell.

Sometimes he does grab at it and start playing with it, but I can usually tell. He is now sitting or laying by the door when he needs to go out after he taps at the bell. If he really grabs and starts pulling at it, it is usually playing and we discourage him.

There are some false alarms meaning he really just wants to go out to play, but I figure we'd have those without the bell to since he would just sit there and whine.
 
#36 ·
Hehe, absolutely. Great that he's caught onto the bell! Chili pulled a fast one on me y'day. He's tugging the Kong out of my had, all the while peeing on the dog bed! *sigh* I think I just have to adjust his outings to every 45 mins if he's awake and playing/parking/whining.

Fozzie is a cutie! :)
 
#38 ·
Hello Fozzie! :)

I let Oscar off the leash for the first time today to play with a labrador. He absolutely loved it.
The lab belonged to a elderly gentleman who had 4 labradors, they were all wonderful and really gentle with Oscar. He was trotting along very proudly with his new gang of friends...wish I had taken my camera out with me.
 
#39 ·
So...Fozzie has had a major setback. :( Last night at puppy play group, another dog attacked him out of nowhere for seemingly no reason. (The owner said "I don't know, he just seemed to not like him or something!" Great.) He didn't get bit, but he was snapped at pretty hard and the trainers had to help us get the other dog off him. It was awful; I was on the verge of tears. I'm very concerned that he won't grow up to be a dog that can be around other dogs because of this. This morning on our walk he met some very laid-back Labs who were tolerant of him and allowed him to sniff around, etc., and that went well, but when another dog of about the same size as last night's aggressor came toward him he immediately started growling, showing teeth, and barking in what I am sure is fear aggression. I'm so sad this happened. He is not an aggressive dog by nature!! My only consolation is that the other dog has been banned from the play group.

Here are a couple more pictures of my little bear.
 

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Hi there, I just wondered if the dog who jumped on Fozzie was an adult or pup? If it was an adult, what was it doing at puppy play group? If it was another puppy, having had a litter here until recently, I can tell you they sometimes look like they're killing each other...lol! Just like humans, dogs have very different personalities, some will be dominant, some not so, and some just take the back seat with everything.

One of our puppies came back to us for the day after only having left our house for a few days. The pup who came back immediately jumped on Flo, growling, pinning her to the floor and acting pretty much like she didn't like her! We were all a little shocked, and the owners said they were worried all day!

Well I waited until they had gone and then put pups back together, in no time at all they were racing around the garden, sharing toys, even sleeping together in Flo's crate (I emailed photo's to them:)).

I'm glad he's not had any lasting fears since this incident, it could just be that this more dominant puppy, could see he wasn't dominant and decided to treat him like he did his littermates.
 
#40 ·
Hi all

I've just seen this thread and am thrilled that I have an August puppy too! Am I still allowed to join even though we bred the litter? lol!

Anyway, I'd like to introduce our lovely "Flo" who is the bitch we kept from the litter born on 21st August. She will be 12 weeks old this coming Saturday and is growing so much. Flo was one of two small puppy bitches in the litter, and was just so darned cute, in personality as well as looks, it had to be her that stayed here with us. We love her so much and she has settled in so well with Obi my big bear and Izzie her mum.

Some pictures taken last week when she was 10 weeks:



With her half-sister Lexi, who was born May 2009:


Here's one of Izzie (mum), Obi and Flo aged about 9 weeks. As you can see they all get along fine - it's a good job Obi is a pushover because Flo now likes to dive on him and wrestle!!


And here's one of my favourites of Flo chewing a flower pot aged about 7 weeks:


Here's a picture of the whole litter (minus Flo) a few days before they went to their new homes...


I love the pictures of all your puppies, and am interested to read of the issues such as biting/house training and how we all deal with it.
 
#46 ·
Poor Fozzie! I'm sure that one bad experience could be put right. It may need quite a lot of good experiences with similar type dogs to get his confidence back. I agree a separate post on the forum would be a good idea as there are a lot of really knowledgable people to give the right advice. I too would be really upset if it had happened to Oscar.
Welcome to all the new pups, Flo, Baxter, Lincoln and Tonka!
 
#47 ·
Fozzie actually is doing better!! I can't believe it! The trainer had said to slowly reintroduce him to other dogs (not nose to nose but nose to butt) while praising him and giving a high-value treat if he does well, and both last night and this morning on his walks he met a bunch of dogs--a couple of Goldens (big ones), a cockerdoodle (is this a new dog breed? they're so cute!) and a teeny little pug, and he behaved himself. I was super proud. He's a resilient little guy, I guess! Thanks for asking. :)

Pic of hubby and Fozzie at the park attached. Welcome to the other new doggies!!
 

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#51 ·
We had a similar situation at a puppy playgroup a few weeks back, where two 6 month old pups pounced on poor Obie, barely 11 weeks at the time. We decided to try a different playgroup today, one that only allows pups 18 weeks or younger, so they are all smaller in size. I'm happy to say Obie dealt with it really well! He was hesitant at first, and stood off and barked at the other pups playing. After some correction and encouragement, he eventually worked his way in running and playing with the other pups.
 
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Finally I have uploaded some pictures of Beau. He will be 12 weeks tomorrow and recently started puppy Kindergarten. He has been great and is very independent. He goes to the door when he needs to go the bathroom but waits about 3 seconds so I have to be quick to catch him. He loves playing with my lab. Only a few more weeks until he gets his final seet of shots and I can't wait to take him to the beach and dog parks! He is already 18 pounds! I think he might be a big boy
 

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The are all growing to fast!!! I can't believe it Lincoln used to be this big --> YouTube - Golden Retriever puppy bed-digging look at tiny we has and how he did no damage to my house..now look at him! YouTube - Golden Retriever Carpet hunting

Sigh...I'm starting to get miss how easy we has to care for back then...lol
I have 2 july babies so they are a few weeks oldern than yours but I had to comment on this cause I was laughing reading....sooo true how easy it was to take care of them when they were new...now they are huge monsters!!!
 
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