Saturday, June 19, 2004
The Turbo-dog arrives!
Well I can see why the staff at the Rescue centre named our dog Turbo! He likes his walks and isn't afraid to let you know either. I was considering changing his name to Harvey, but I'm doing a bit of back tracking on that idea at the moment as he does seem to respond to his name quite well.
Muttley maybe my alias
Big Al
Turbo appears to have settled in well and appears to be enjoying the fuss and attention. Having bought him a few tennis balls and squeaky balls I thought he wasn't really a ball sort of dog, however I was very much mistaken he is not a small ball dog. Turbo would put to shame some 1st division footballers with his dribbling skills and he is quite good at keeping the ball, he does however get extremely excited and bark like mad.
I'm coming to get you
Big Al
Our house is a lot calmer than the Dogs Trust home, as we don't bark day and night, well not while awake anyway. Having given him a couple of blankets, he is more interested in lying on the floor, guess you can get used to anything.
Boy am I pooped after that long walk
Big Al
After walking Turbo and scooping his poop for the 4th time (not a job I like, but it has to be done) we went to bed about 11:30pm and at 8:30am this morning I came down to let him out into the garden. Success, Turbo lasted the night without any trouble, he made a few wooffles and low barks at people coming home and slamming doors, but other than that the living room was as we had left it.
At the moment Turbo is pooped out on the computer room floor. He has had two walks so far today, but he was not prepared to get into the boot of our estate car, whatever the bribe, so he stayed home with me. Giving him a grooming we noticed more than one puncture wound from another dogs teeth on his back legs, seem to have healed okay though.
As to progress in the training from Turbo can now sit and give the paw almost 100% of the time and without the need to always have a treat. I'm now occasionally getting him to lie down, although he doesn't really know the word yet. So we have a little progress so far, I just hope we can get him to calm down around other dogs eventually. Maybe we will be able to look back on this post in a few months time and wonder why we worried so much about his eagerness to rush into greeting other dogs, and the consequences.
Muttley maybe my alias
Big Al
Turbo appears to have settled in well and appears to be enjoying the fuss and attention. Having bought him a few tennis balls and squeaky balls I thought he wasn't really a ball sort of dog, however I was very much mistaken he is not a small ball dog. Turbo would put to shame some 1st division footballers with his dribbling skills and he is quite good at keeping the ball, he does however get extremely excited and bark like mad.
I'm coming to get you
Big Al
Our house is a lot calmer than the Dogs Trust home, as we don't bark day and night, well not while awake anyway. Having given him a couple of blankets, he is more interested in lying on the floor, guess you can get used to anything.
Boy am I pooped after that long walk
Big Al
After walking Turbo and scooping his poop for the 4th time (not a job I like, but it has to be done) we went to bed about 11:30pm and at 8:30am this morning I came down to let him out into the garden. Success, Turbo lasted the night without any trouble, he made a few wooffles and low barks at people coming home and slamming doors, but other than that the living room was as we had left it.
At the moment Turbo is pooped out on the computer room floor. He has had two walks so far today, but he was not prepared to get into the boot of our estate car, whatever the bribe, so he stayed home with me. Giving him a grooming we noticed more than one puncture wound from another dogs teeth on his back legs, seem to have healed okay though.
As to progress in the training from Turbo can now sit and give the paw almost 100% of the time and without the need to always have a treat. I'm now occasionally getting him to lie down, although he doesn't really know the word yet. So we have a little progress so far, I just hope we can get him to calm down around other dogs eventually. Maybe we will be able to look back on this post in a few months time and wonder why we worried so much about his eagerness to rush into greeting other dogs, and the consequences.
