LI-Jack
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I've been having a ball working with Chance, my Chessie. He just turned a year old and has approached 80 pounds, but you can still tell he's a puppy. He's a main attraction each day when I bring him to the town dock and beach. The kids (even my own) want to play fetch with him and take turns throwing the bumper. It's like an amusment ride to the kids, I don't mind especially when you see how excited they get too see a dog swim.
I was hoping to get a picture of chance this morning while we trained, but left the camera home. He's doing real well with the sit, stay, heel and down commands and I have him doing simple retreives and taking a line. In the next three months I hope to find a close field to start some serious training, all my old training fields got developed- and the school fields are for the most part off limits.
He's still a bit mouthy, constantly licking and nipping (not to hurt, just to hold) and it's driving my wife nuts. I can't seem to break him from this quirk, but he's not biting me so it's a step up. Actually I haven't had any aggressive episodes since January.
I'll try and get some pictures of the boy. I was looking into a new camera for this season and was hoping to have a new one by now but so many choices just overwhelmed me. I'm almost at the point to get 2 one thats waterproof (canon d10, Olympus 8000 or pentax w80) and the other being a Megazoom or an DSLR (although the megazoom are half the price of an SLR).
I'll take some pictures this week, promise.
Best purchase last year was the dog, wish I had bought 2.
-Jack
I was hoping to get a picture of chance this morning while we trained, but left the camera home. He's doing real well with the sit, stay, heel and down commands and I have him doing simple retreives and taking a line. In the next three months I hope to find a close field to start some serious training, all my old training fields got developed- and the school fields are for the most part off limits.
He's still a bit mouthy, constantly licking and nipping (not to hurt, just to hold) and it's driving my wife nuts. I can't seem to break him from this quirk, but he's not biting me so it's a step up. Actually I haven't had any aggressive episodes since January.
I'll try and get some pictures of the boy. I was looking into a new camera for this season and was hoping to have a new one by now but so many choices just overwhelmed me. I'm almost at the point to get 2 one thats waterproof (canon d10, Olympus 8000 or pentax w80) and the other being a Megazoom or an DSLR (although the megazoom are half the price of an SLR).
I'll take some pictures this week, promise.
Best purchase last year was the dog, wish I had bought 2.
-Jack
