Louise on May 16th, 2009

I had to go on a short trip to visit family and then my dogs always stay at the kennel. Before I left I had to take Chloe to the vet as she had a ulcer in her eye. The vet gave her drops and pain killers and I will take her for another checkup [...]

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Louise on May 16th, 2009

This has been going better than expected.. I took Rusty and Chloe seperately for walks but I think Rusty needs a lot more training then Chloe.
He definetely thinks he is pack leader and I need to get that out of him.
It is going well so far, so I am very positive about it.

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Louise on May 11th, 2009

I took Chloe to obedience training and I must admit she is very different without Rusty around.  I met up with the trainer Andrea at her facility and she spoke about a few things prior to us starting. The key thing is to be consistent and to make sure your dog knows the rules.
She taught [...]

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Louise on May 10th, 2009

Tomorrow is the 1ste day of training for Chloe. I hope I can apply all the things I am taught to Rusty as well or I might have to take him for a few lessons myself.
They have been such good dogs at home and I can see the results of giving them sufficient obedience, love [...]

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Louise on May 7th, 2009

Okay so we have progressed on training but I am still having loads of problems with obedience and I really need to see some results.
They both sleep outside in their own kennel every night which took 2 weeks of them fighting to get in to the door during the night. It was quite an accomplishment. [...]

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