Chloe is 16 weeks Old
Since Joshua has arrived, Chloe has had to take a back seat regarding new updates on our blogs. But Ken and Pat have complained that they wanted to see Chloe and besides, she is almost as cute as Joshua...So here is the latest.
Chloe has started puppy school! There are 5 puppies in the class - a schitzo brown lab puppy that is about twice as big as Chloe and 3 other Lapso Apso type puppies. During the hour class, there is a time for the puppies to socialize. The first night everyone let their puppies off lead, Chloe ventured out into the centre of the room. Then Ruby, the brown lab took one bound toward her. Chloe dove for the refuge under our chairs and stayed there! Later she couldn't resist visiting the young boy (one of Ruby's family). All was fine until Ruby spotted her. Then she scurried behind a row of chairs and hide there. It was not a good sign of things to come. As far as the actual work on lead, Chloe did splendidly. We were all sent home to practise the evening lessons.
The next week, the leader chose Chloe to show again last week's lessons. She did everything perfectly. We were as proud as punch! Then it was time for social time...
Chloe ventured towards the little puppies, only to be intercepted by guess who...Ruby! But instead of running, Chloe flipped on her back and lay motionless. Ruby sniffed her all over until Chloe jumped up and said "Enough of that." The chase was on, with Ruby in hot pursuit! Once again, Chloe hit the deck! But after that time, it was like a different Chloe had been born. She jumped up and proceeded to chase Ruby about the room! It was sheer bedlam! Everyone was quite amused and the instructor was happy to see Chloe finally stand up for herself.
We will see what happens tonight!
Around the house, Chloe is getting better and better. She is (we think) fully house-trained now and loves her crate. We took her camping and she was quite happy to stay in the camper in her crate while we went biking. She loves the camper!
Here are some recent pictures....
posted by Unknown @ 10:45 AM
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3 Comments:
great stories, keep it up! she's getting bigger and bigger, that's for sure.
Great shots of Josh as well, can't wait to see him.
Things here going well, busy with work - will hopefully have a blog-worthy weekend though.
Love
Dan
Fun stories...we had a dog ONCE that went to school, the rest have been total failures as far as manners, or caring what we said! good show.
It's definitely a toss-up betweeen the puppy and the baby...but I think the baby has it.
One more day of work, then time to sit back and find other things to do (or not).
Well it's about time-what fun.
Obviously Chloe is not an alpha dog.For which you can be glad.
We don't see a lot of labs out here but every second dog is a golden... we met 2 on the trail this morning.
Bailey is glad of the cooler weather-we had to carry her a few times when it was hot-of course she's 10 years old-which is what... 70 human years?
I wonder if she's achey in the morning like we are???
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