My CFR said that search and rescue was not looking for any more dogs but he could go and be evaluated. I do not want Focus spending more time in kennel life if he does not have to, so I made the decision to bring him home and place him with this family in town.
So tomorrow we are making the trip to Sacramento to meet my brother who lives in the bay. He is going to pick Focus up form the campus and drive him to Sacramento, which is a huge help! The weather looks good no snow, but the roads I am sure will have snow and some ice on them but we have a good car and will do fine.
I plan on keeping Focus till the New Year, but if it is too much to have Ryder, Focus, and my pet dog Dietrich, he will go to his family earlier. The family he is going with I think is going to be perfect. He plans on training Focus to be a hunting show dog, and possibly dock diving (I am not sure if it`s called that, but where the dogs jumps off a dock for distance and retrieves something). It seems like a perfect home for him, he needs a job and lots of exercise, and that is just what he will get! He can also go to work as this man owns his own company! Focus is the kinda dog you can`t trust at home alone because he will eat and destroy everything! That is the main reason I am not adopting him, he would be kenneled 6 hours a day and that would not be fair to him. I could not be happier on this placement as I know Focus will be well loved and have an awesome life! I will also be able to be a part of his training and maybe get to show him, and I will see him periodically as he will live in town!
Tomorrow the good old halti will be placed on Focus and the leash will be in my hand....
Katlynn & Ryder
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You will have to get out and watch him in his hunt tests (assuming Focus's new family does some sort of organized showing - like AKC) It is super amazing to watch. If at all possible, try to be there when he gets the scent of a bird for the first time...I took Chelsie to a hunt lesson once and her little face went beserk when she smelled the bird feather for the first time. What was even funnier was watching her try to decide between her rope kong (which she had been retrieving out of a pond) and this feather...talk about being over processed!!!!
Sounds like Focus will have a great life!
WOW, sounds like Focus will have lots of things to do. I bet he'll love it! I think Ellie would love Dock Diving!!! I bet Focus will too! What could be more fun for labs than jumping in a big body of water after their favorite toy!? :D
Wow, what awesome jobs Focus is going to have! Dock diving is one of my favorite dog sports to watch: they just look so excited and stoked!
Drive carefully on those roads, I know people have been going off the road like crazy here.
Good old Sacramento, my home sweet home. =)
Sounds like Focus ill have an amazing life with a great new family! =D
Awesome!! What an amzing life he will have!! Are you going to keep writing about him if/when you get updates? I would love to hear about some of this stuff. He is so lucky!!
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