Candy Dance

Today Taylor (a puppy raiser in my club) and I decided it would be fun to go to the annual Candy Dance in Genoa. Fantom and Focus were very well behaved and did great! For those of you who don`t know what it is, it is basically a lot of people that make crafts and it is a large craft fair. I was really happy with Focus because he delt with all the people very good and got lots of attention! Towards the end he was very tired, we must have walked about a mile or so. We were there for about 3 houres and on the way back into town we stopped at Chili`s to get lunch! The dogs were awesome they were so tired they just slept and you would not have known they were there!

We stopped at a both and bought each of the dogs a Kool Hat. They are very nice and even have a cloth material inside so you can wet it with water and keep your dog kool. Fantom already had one, but it was to small so he got a bigger one.
Focus not so thrilled about the hat, but being tolerant of it.


On another note, Focus was with my leaders all week and I got him back on Thursday. They said he was very good and has great house manners. They also enjoyed taking him on walks and out in the public. I was happy to hear that!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Katlynn & Focus

New Comers!

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 3 No
Diva 400N LAB F 1 Yes
Orwell 45N7 LAB M 1 No

It looks like DeSoto`s sister Diva has joined the fun (Soto you better lead her down the right road) and Orwell a dog in our club that went back Saturday. I wish the best of luck to all these guys!

Katlynn & Focus

Blog Awards

What a great idea this is! I want to say thanks to Kesley, Burgess, & Tahoe for this award! Now I guess I get to pick seven people. I will try to pick people who have not received this award
yet, if you have already received this award please pass it on to someone else!

• Taelor & Franklin
• Aerial & Splash
• Richard & Zane
• Jenny & Truman
• Frisco
• Becky & Cricket
• Hooper
  

I encourage all you guys to do it, but it is optional! I hope everyone has a great week!

Katlynn & Focus

4 Months Old!

As by the title, Focus is now 4 months! What a perfect day the phase report and Focus turns 4 months! Focus is growing up way to fast it and it does not seem like I have had him for almost 2 months, he has just learned so much in the little time I have had him. As for the pictures I know I have not posted some in a while, so here they are! If you have not noticed, he got his M jacket yesterday!

Can`t forget DeSoto!

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 3 No

Go DeSoto! He has been there for little over a month and has done great so far!

Katlynn & Focus

A Year Ago Today....

The 4 hour drive to San Rafael seemed like an hour on end drive. When we finally got there, went to the kennel kitchen, checked in, they finally told me that I would be receiving 9 week old DeSoto. I was not real fond of the name at first, but it grew on me. He was the perfect little puppy from day 1. Though I did not get to spend quite a year with him, I am sure glad I got to spend the 11 months I had with him. Him being my first puppy, we learned a lot together. We had our bad days, but the good days out numbered the bad by a lot. The time I spent with him seemed like a day, but it was great experience for me and him!


The little puppy I had once..
turned into the boy I love and miss today!

Katlynn & Focus

Still Moving Along

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 2 No
Sherwood 46M3 LAB M 5 No
Spike 4N55 LAB M 2 No
Suede 4N58 LAB F 2 No

Every Thursday it is always a relief to see them all still moving along. Mr. Sherwood is 50% done with his training, go Sherwood!!! The other 3 should be moving up to 3 hopefully soon.

For a quick update on Focus:
He has been going to school with me mostly every day, and he is SO good. He has not had an accident yet *fingers crossed* and usually goes on command when I allow him to. Everyone loves him, though I have discovered he is very people distracted to the point of lunging toward them, so need to say, we will be working on that! Today he stayed with my mom because he had a vet appointment to get his 4 month old rabies, and I am sure you all will be shocked but the boy weighed 35 pounds!! I was very shocked! Last month when he was there for his stomach issues he weighed 25 pounds. He was very skinny though so I feed him 1.5 cups 3 times a day and sometimes 2 for lunch, but now that he gained weight he is back to the 1 cup 3 times a day. Hopefully this weekend I will get around to posting pictures!

Katlynn & Focus

Yay!!

DeSoto, Spike, & Suede finally made it out of 0 to phase 2. I guess I am happy to see that DeSoto is out of 0. So I assume they have almost passed all of there medical stuff, and are now into the more "fun stuff."

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 2 No
Sherwood 46M3 LAB M 4
Spike 4N55 LAB M 2 No
Suede 4N58 LAB F 2 Yes

Also, Diva (DeSoto`s sister) and Orwell (a dog in our club) are scheduled to go back on the 20-21.

On a second note, Focus is finally over the diarrhea (I hope). He has also been going to school with me and is very well behaved, and everyone just adores him! This week has been pretty boring, going to school or staying home with my mom, and going for walks up in the hills, well Focus that is! I don`t think we have anything exciting planned for the weekend, but who knows!

Katlynn & Focus

It`s Thursday!

As many have you have probably already guessed, the phase reports come out today! Now as you will probaly notice, most of the dogs are in 0. Are leader explained that the dogs are just going through medical exams and such, and should be in phase 2 next week.

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 0 No
Sherwood 46M3 LAB M 4 No
Spike 4N55 LAB M 0 No
Suede 4N58 LAB F 0 Yes

Now for an update on Focus.
On Monday we had are annual club potluck and mills park. I was a little worried about bringing Focus, just becasue of the Parvo (a very bad diesese for dogs, which is mostly caused by dogs eating other dogs stools) that has been going around this area. So I just walked him to and from the pavillion where we had our potluck, and not let him on the grass. The potluck was very good and Focus was great! We also got to meet Neeva, who is being raised by a first time raiser and his family. Neeva is a 4 month old FYL. She is a sweetie!

On Tuesday I took Focus to shcool with me. He was very well behaved and all my friends and teachers loved him. But I have not brought him back since because he has been having dierrah for the past few days. So we called are leader, Becky and she said to give him plain yogurt, chicken, and white rice. She also said her little guy, Amato has been having the same issue, so we are thinking it`s the city water that`s causing it?? So I have been giving Focus filtered water only. So I hope he`ll be over this soon! As for the rest of the week, it`ll be pretty boring! Just for all you people wondering, Focus weighed 26 pounds at 12 weeks and he is now about 28 pounds!

Katlynn & Focus

The First of Many

This is the first of many training reports! I am really looking foward to seeing DeSoto and all of the dogs in my club go through the phases!

DeSoto 49N7 LAB M 1 No

Spike 4N55 LAB M 1 No

Suede 4N58 LAB F 1 Yes

Sherwood 46M3 LAB M 3 No

Katlynn & Focus

Update on Focus

Focus is growing up so fast, he turned 3 months on Monday! Last Saturday our club met at the train station to ride the steam train. Focus was great just sat there and was not bothered at all by all the noise. I was very impressed! After the train ride, Focus went home with my leaders because I had a family event and could not take Focus or DeSoto because some people were very allergic to dogs. Focus got to spend the weekend with them because Sunday my mom and I made the trip to San Rafael to drop DeSoto off, and than headed into San Francisco which was very fun, but I wish I had Focus, but it was a lit of walking and it would not have been good for him. Maybe when he is older!

Monday was just a meeting for puppies which was held at our leaders house. We basically just talked about issues we were having, talking about recall, and practiced "come," which Focus is very good at, for the most part. After the meeting I took Focus home with me. I got a great report from them, except the crazy barking in the kennel, which they said it`ll just take time for him to get over that. Tuesday I had an eye appointment and he tagged along and was great.

We kind of had a scare with Focus on Tuesday as well. He woke up and I put him on the tie down and he started making the puking noise, but he never did throw up. So we went along doing are normal thing and fed him breakfast around 7. Around 11:30 I was upstairs and he was in the room with me and he threw up his breakfast, and the weird thing was, is that is was really not digested at all. So I called my leader and she asked if he had swallowed anything, and I said no. So she just suggessed that I soak his food for an hour. So before we went to the eye doctor, I got his food ready. While at the eye doctor, every time he got up he arched his belly up really high, and acted like he was in pain. So we than called are leader and she said we should take him to the vet. We got to the vet and she checked him out and felt his entire stomach and said nothing was in there that she could feel, so she gave him a shot which is was like a tums, and to not feed him that night. So, we just think he had a bad stomach ache. I made rice for him this morning and fed that to him and rice and food mixed for lunch. He seems all back to normal now which I am happy about!

These last two pictures I found and thought they were just "cute."

Katlynn & Focus

P.S. We all miss DeSoto and wish him good luck!