I'm a beautiful dog.....

Just look at me. I'm 6 months old and getting adult features. I'm sleek and beautiful. :)

Some cropped photos

Savannah is growing and coming along

We took our Lab Savannah to her first obedience class at Petsmart an hour away yesterday on Saturday. The minute we got out of the car she was so anxious to get inside the store. I think she smelled the other animals. We all met up inside and there were 5 other pups and their owners in our class and they were adorable. Best of all, all of them let her lick them and smell their noses and none of them bit her. She made friends and she was so happy. The class was mostly informational the first day and we are to go for 7 more sessions. Her biting is already getting so much better, thanks to my youngest daughter's boyfriend who gave me some really good pointers and a good, humane method of getting her to stop and we are being very consistent. I have learned you really have to become dedicated to your Lab once you have one. Dogs are not like cats, who always just know. Dogs have to be taught so many things. But I knew this. She has become a huge part of my life and my husband loves her too.

Here are some pics of her in our yard today. It's really hard to get a good pic of her as she is always moving. lol!

Bringing up baby pup sure is tough!

Well, let me first start off by saying I love my little chocolate covered Lab baby. However, she is rather a tough one to train. First of all, she play bites. Yeah, it's called play biting but it hurts like heck and makes me bleed. I have to wear band aides on my hands when I go to work so people won't thing I have leprosy or am a self mutilator. 2nd of all, I'm having a tough time house training her for potty. You really have to watch them like a hawk in order to get an idea of when they have to poop or pee or they will poop and pee all over your floor and rug. I just simply get exhausted trying to drag her out a million times a night, so I fall short of catching her signals all the time. However yesterday was the first time we went all day without the first accident. Yeah!!! You have no idea of what an accomplishment this is. I could not even start to count how many times I've cleaned poop and pee up off my floor. When she goes and does her business outside, I praise her and give her a treat. They say I got her too young and is why I'm having problems with the biting, she was 6 weeks. They say it's best to wait at least until they are 8 weeks so they can learn bite inhibition from their mother. But I didn't know. The owner said they were all "ready to go."

Anyway, I love her and I'm sure all of this will be worth it. I won't even go into all the crate training we've been doing but she's done wonderful with that. We put her in her crate at night at 9 and she sleeps all night til 5:30 a.m. and she has not wet or pooed.

Oh the things a dog owner will talk about!! haha!

Here are some new pics. If you look closely, you will see on my carpet some stains of cleaned poop and pee (does not always come up well) and some leaves that were brought in by the constant going in and out. Thankfully, we will be getting new carpet when she's trained. (we had planned this even before getting her). I've also included some pics of my hands, you ought to see under the bandages and on my arms that are covered up. They never said puppy-hood with a Lab would be this rough. But I'm betting it will be worth it. I hope so anyway.

More cute pics of my chocolate covered sweetie

How could you NOT love me?????

My new Lab Puppy!!!

Yesterday, after months of reading, researching, and yesterday and the day before buying all the supplies I would need, I picked up my new 7 week old Lab puppy! She was in a big pen with her mother and she picked me out and I couldn't resist her! But she smelled SO bad!! I put her in the pet carrier and she cried and yelped all the way home, 45 minutes, except for the time we stopped at my parents' to show her to them. My pup immediately fell in love with my mother, as all animals do. Then it was on the way back home again and she immediately started the crying again. She came from a litter of 7 pups, so this is all new to her.

I got her home and gave her a good bath and now she smells good. She's so sweet. However, when I put her in her crate last night, she cried 45 minutes before going to sleep, then slept about an hour and a half, cried again so I took her to potty, which she did. This whole thing lasted all night long.(the crying, potty, sleeping, crying, potty). We have a long way to go in our training but it will be worth it.

Her name is Savannah. She is a chocolate lab. It's hard to get a good pic of her because she rarely stays still. She looks a little sad because she misses her mama I guess.