Long, Much Needed, Overdue, Update

It has almost been a month since my last post! I have been super busy with school and my mom is fostering 2 kids so I have been helping a lot with them.

It's hard to believe that Aniko is almost 4 months old and he gets his "legal" shots on Friday. He is turing out to be an awesome dog, who I love oh so much in the short month that I have had him. He is a very confident guy, loves shopping, and small outings. He knows "sit" and "let's go" very well and is walking 99% of the time which is helpful, because I don't think I can carry around a 25lb (or so) puppy much longer.He is getting bigger every day and learning more and more. He goes to my mom's Daycare every day while I am at school, and my mom and all the kids adore him! I am getting anxious to take him to school, but it will most likely be in December before Winter Break!

Ryder is still here with us, but we got the news last week he is on the 11/27 recall. :( I knew this day would come but I am SO not ready, but is Ryder ready? Yes. Ryder has been such an easy dog to raise and excelled so well in everything I taught him and socialized him to. He is very trustworthy and can be taken into any situation and you'll know he will do great. I am really going to miss this dog, I will be happy with what ever he chooses, even if it is coming home and being my forever dog.

Today my family and I ventured up to Scheel's (largest outdoor store) and this was Aniko's first "big" outing. I did not go very far into the store as I wanted to be close to an exit in case of an accident, but he did great no accidents!! I don't think he has ever had an accident while in vest! *knock on wood*. He did great and had no reactions to the stuffed animals or all the people and noise. He is truly amazing for a 3.5 month old puppy.

Aniko laying down in front of a White Tail Dear.

Aniko looking up at me while we were watching people on the Farris Wheel.

Looking very handsome.

Ryder & Aniko in front of an animal.

It looks like Ryder is kissing Aniko, but he is just looking in that general direction!

Hope you all have a good rest of your weekend!

Katlynn, Ryder, & Aniko

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Fall Photos

This past week, our neighbors have this gorgeous tree and red leaves, so I took the opportunity to take some pictures of Ryder and Aniko. I tried to get Aniko to stay still but that was not happening he was WAY too distracted by all the leaves and all he wanted to do was eat them. So none of his pictures turned out good. Ryder, on the other hand, I got a few really good pictures, maybe Calendar Worthy?? Let me know out of the 3 photos you like the best. :)

Photo #1

I think this is the best out of all of them. His looks and the background are gorgeous.

Photo #2

I really like the angle of the camera looking down on him, but I hate that his eyes are squinty.

Photo #3

I really like his heat tilt, but not so much the house in the background.

The next few pictures are from the Capital Grounds Photo Shoot. I got a few good ones, but the lightning was bad so there is a glow on most all the pictures.

My two handsome boys!!

Hope you all have a good rest of the weekend!

Katlynn, Ryder, & Aniko

P.S. Aniko is doing AWESOME! He sleeps through the night, has since Day 1. He is really easy, my mom loves having him at her daycare while I am at school because he is so calm and all he does is sleep. He has gone to a thrift store, the post office, library, and a few small quick in and outs. He does really well and shows no signs of being scared and too overwhelmed. He is also a very good walker and walks most of the time!

I also weighed him a few nights ago and he was 20 pounds!!

Mr. Aniko

Aniko has been a dream puppy, I got the news Tuesday afternoon that I had been assigned a male Golden, that will be arriving on the puppy truck in Reno on Wednesday (yes I know I posted on Wednesday I would be getting him Thursday, but I lied I wanted you all to have the fun of guessing!!) It is pretty rare for the puppy truck to be in Reno and even more rare that us NV raisers are able to get puppies off the truck, we normally have to drive to GDB in San Rafael to get our babies.

The truck was on time and arrived right at 1:00 and we saw it on the road (which was a neat experience I've never seen the puppy truck on the road, I've only seen it at campus) and we followed it getting really excited to meet Mr. "A." As soon as the drivers (Lee was there and I can't remember the other driver's name) got out of the truck me and another raiser who was picking up a puppy, were very anxious to meet them! They asked us if we would like to eat first, and we said "we already ate we are ready for a puppy!!!!" So they gladly got our puppies off and gave us food and their bag and then they locked up the truck and went to go eat lunch. That was my first puppy truck pick up experience.

Aniko coming off of the truck.

Me with my two puppies. Ryder & Aniko in front of the puppy truck.

Aniko has been very good the past 2 days, he sleeps from 11-6 and has not had an accident in the kennel yet. *fingers crossed* He only barks in the kennel when he goes to work with my mom, while I am at school. She runs a daycare center, and he hears all the kids and noise so he barks because he wants to play! Instead of my mom dealing with his barking she set up a bed and toys for him in her office and put a baby gate in the door, so he will hang out in there for a good part of the day until I go get him. She says he is very good and sleeps most of the time.

With goldens, and after having my leaders golden, Jordie I was hesitant on getting one of my own. Jordie is awesome out working, but at home he paces, pants, whines/barks almost constantly, so that made me think twice, but I can't judge all goldens off him as I know there are awesome goldens in this world! So when I was offered Aniko, I thought I would be in for an experience, but so far Aniko is awesome in the house, not skittish/scared of anything and it pretty confident but a mellow puppy.

One of his favorite bones.

His favorite spot to sleep in my room, under my desk with his head on my printer.

I gave him a bath on Wednesday as he smelled like "puppy truck" I am sure he had a bath a day or so before he left, but I still gave him one anyway! He was great during the bath, but as soon as I opened the door, he jumped out. I had to hold him like that so I could get a picture.

Isn't that face just the sweetest?!

Chillin' in the house while I do some chores.

First puppy jacket picture! He looks adorable with it, but he was in a playful mood when I took these so he was not real cooperative.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!! Aniko and I will most likely be hanging out at home, as he is to young to be going anywhere.

Katlynn, Ryder, & Aniko

Puppy #4!!

Please Welcome.......................

ANIKO!!!!

DOB:8/6/10

Breed: Golden

Color: Light Colored

On Monday, we had Celeste, our CFR, come visit us. Ryder is now 16 months old and is ready to go back. We are pretty sure his recall is going to be 11/6. Celeste also promised me a golden or cross since my sister took Corona for her in January, when Ryder went back.

After the meeting was over I stayed after to talk with Celeste about puppy stuff and recall. She happened mention there were 2 male 10 week old goldens left in the kennel that needed homes ASAP. She asked me if I would be interested in taking one, and without skipping a beat I said yes!!!! She said the puppy truck would be coming through Reno till next week, but they needed to go out sooner, so we would have to drive to GDB to get it this weekend. We had no problem going there and getting him, but when my leaders called to tell me I was assigned one, they also said the puppy truck is coming Wednesday and we will put your puppy on it! I was so thrilled that I would only have to drive 45min instead of 4 hours to get my long awaited golden!!!

Katlynn, Ryder, & Aniko

P.S. More pics to come and an update on how he is doing!

Puppy News?

Tomorrow I will be getting a puppy off the puppy truck that just happens to be going through Reno at the right time, what a great coincidence! I will be overlapping till 11/6 that is when Ryder is going back for training. :( The litter was born 8/6 so they are almost 10 weeks old! I am going to let you all guess the:

Name: "A" Litter

Gender

Breed

Color

Good luck guessing!!! Check back tomorrow to see what it is!

P.S. Sorry guys that totally spaced my mind to put the litter letter! You can guess as many names as you'd like as this is only for fun!

Getting Our Ears Pierced?

This morning as usual, Ryder & Corona play in the backyard before school. Corona has always been one to play bite while playing. He is not aggressive but sometimes he bites a little too hard and Ryder will usually let him know by yelping.

I brought Ryder in a few minutes before I left and noticed a little blood on his head. I just thought maybe Corona had a little blood in his mouth I thought nothing of it, I just cleaned it off and left for school. When I was sitting in class I noticed all these blood spots under his right ear, again I just thought it was blood from Corona and them playing and took him to the bathroom and cleaned him up. I than noticed when I was rubbing his ear, there was blood on my hand. So I looked at his ear and noticed a very small puncture on the tip of his ear. Obviously Corona got him while playing. He is fine and it does not seem to bother him and I don't think it it is a hole, because I looked at but it, it's hard to tell because of all the dried blood. But I am absolutely positive it does not go all the way through. I think Corona just ripped the top layer of skin off.

I don't plan on taking him to the vet as I don't think it is an emergency. I am going to wait a week or so and hope it heels up and everything will be back to normal and I will go from there. I just thought I would share my story with you all!

The outside of his ear.

The inside of his ear.

Katlynn & Ryder

Camping Dog

Over Labor Day weekend my family and some of our friends from California all went camping at this awesome campground called Walker River Resort. It is very pet friendly and accommodates everyone. There is a pool/hot tub, dirt bike riding, hiking, shooting, golfing, and the river! It is a great place for the entire family there should be something for everyone!

We have been going there for the past 4 years a few times each summer, but I have not taken a Guide Dog Puppy with me, I always found puppy sitters for them. This time I decided I would like to take Ryder and give him all the experiences they had to offer. He did way better than I expected. He now knows he has hormones so every time we passed a dog or he saw/heard a dog he would do the annoying whine and after a few times of getting really good corrections and using the food protocall, he was very good!

We went on a lot of hikes, he loved swimming, & he was not so impressed with sleeping in a tent with me, but he got over himself. Lol.

I think this sign is funny, dogs are totally allowed. They are all over the campground so I am assuming they don't want the dogs doing their business on the grass, therefor the signs.

I have not said much about Corona on this blog, but he is doing well he is still very young in the brain (even though he is 10 months old) but he has come a long way. So this is Corona & Ryder sleeping after a long hike and play in the river.

I love this picture, it looks like they are SO aggressive but they are really just playing in the river and cooling off.

One last picture before we had to leave and head home and get ready for school. I was really impressed with how well he did and I hope he can go camping again before he gets recalled.

Have a good week everyone!

Katlynn & Ryder

P.S. I am pretty sure I will be attending the Sacramento Fun Day, so if anyone is planning to going please let me know! Maybe we can meet up and say hi!

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

On Monday we had a special meeting. Our club went to the local Reno Ace's Baseball game in Reno. This was our second time as a club going to the Ace's Game. I really like this meeting as it gives the puppies a much different atmosphere and they have to leave the crazy kids alone, the food all over the floor, and they have to deal with the noise. I was really impressed with all our puppies as they all did so well, even the 4-month old puppies did really well! Ryder of course was great and had to issues really, besides settling in, he wanted to go around and greet all his human and dog friends from our club that came.

We only stayed for about 7 innings as my ride home had to leave and get to bed at a decent hour as she had to work the next day.

As you can tell Ryder really got into the game. Lol.

I am trying to get back into the school schedule now as school starts on the 23. I am sure Ryder will be happy to go back to school as I am sure he missed all his friends. I on the other hand would like summer to go on another month or so, but at the same time I am kind of ready for school. I have heard nothing on Ryder's recall which is a good thing he is still pretty young he is only 14 months old. I am trying to get a cross out of the 3 litters that were born in July, so I am thinking September would be a good time for Ry to go back tho it will break my heart to leave him in the kennels. Time will only tell! I hope you all have a good week. :)

Katlynn & Ryder

Fun Day!

Fun Day this year was of course very fun, and I got to meet a lot of blogger friends and dogs! I want to apologize for the lack of photos, I forgot my camera and was really not into taking pictures and going to all the presentations this year, so I guess you could say I was kind of out of it. I love Fun Day, and this year was different as I did not receive a puppy and I did not have a recall dog (which is surely not a bad thing!!)

We drove down Friday morning, which is about a 4 hour drive, the drive goes by super fast as we drive that route a lot going to guide dogs and to see my brother who lives down near San Rafael. We had 3 puppies in our car: Ryder, Corona, & Mallory. They were all very well behaved and we only had to stop a few times to relieve them. We noticed Ryder gets really nervous when riding long distances, he will pant, whine, and not settle down. This could be an issue and could be a reason for him to get CC'd. Hopefully he will get over this but it's hard to tell. He is perfectly fine riding in the car around town and to Reno, Tahoe, etc.

We arrived in San Rafael around 5:00 as we made a few stops on our way. We checked into our hotel than drove to Guide Dogs to help set up our booth. After setting up our booth we met up with my brother and headed to the mall to eat dinner and do some more shopping.

Saturday morning I slept in a little and made it to Guide Dogs right at 9 to hear Morgan Watkin's wonderful speech! I headed to our booth after, and helped run it than left to go shopping at the other booths and go look around. I didn't really buy anything except a wonderful Born to Lead sweatshirt and a puppy sleeve coat for Ryder.

Ryder can also be VERY dog distracted so he wore a Halti most of Fun Day. He was very well behaved with it on and enjoyed walking around.

After Fun Day, we left and went back to the hotel to go swimming (not Ryder, though I am sure he wished he could have gone) to cool off and than get ready for dinner. We decided to stay another night because my mom was too tired to drive, so I didn't complain as it meant more time to shop and socialize.

Our booth went pretty well, considering this was our first booth ever! We ended up giving all our "Fun Day 2010" bandannas away for free as they did not sell. The K9 Water Bottles (that were mentioned in my last post) sold pretty well we only have about 40 left and we started with 120.

If any of you blogger people missed out on the K9 Water Bottles, or would like one for a pet dog, we have some left. But only in pink, purple, and red. If you are interested please contact me through e-mail, puppyrazor103@yahoo.com. The water bottles are $13.00 plus 4.95 shipping. You can see the description and picture in my last post of what they are and look like.

You can barely see Ryder, as he was too short to put his head through so my friends lifted him up. :)

5 out of the 7 "R" litter mates showed up and I learned that a lot of them are a lot like Ryder, calm, easy going, and willing to do anything. From L-R: Royalty, Radar, Ryder, Roz, Rumor. We also got to meet the sire of the litter, Atrus. I meet him last Fun Day as well when I was walking around with baby Ryder. It looks like Ryder got most of his calm genes from his daddy, which is great!!

Ryder at out booth wearing his "Fun Day 2010" bandanna.

Hope everyone enjoyed this year's Fun Day as I know I did!

Katlynn & Ryder