The Little Red Caboose Has Pulled Into The Station!

Yep. 6-1/2 weeks snoozing on the couch, climbing around on the pillows, trotting back and forth on the back, hopping from arm to arm, but not hopping off. It was heaven. Now he hit the floor running and is torturing the other two dogs and scattering toys everyplace. Boooo. He also loves to run up and down the staircase and round the opening for the staircase. We put up a mesh barrier inside the open railing so he wouldn't back up and fall off. Not thinking he would jump, more he would back up like teasing a cat and fall. But the mesh will prevent that.

Ugh. He's finally loose.
 
Mom2Melli said:
Yep. 6-1/2 weeks snoozing on the couch, climbing around on the pillows, trotting back and forth on the back, hopping from arm to arm, but not hopping off. It was heaven. Now he hit the floor running and is torturing the other two dogs and scattering toys everyplace. Boooo. He also loves to run up and down the staircase and round the opening for the staircase. We put up a mesh barrier inside the open railing so he wouldn't back up and fall off. Not thinking he would jump, more he would back up like teasing a cat and fall. But the mesh will prevent that.

Ugh. He's finally loose.
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That's exactly what we had to manage with the camper deck. There was about a 5" gap between the camper & deck. Brian said "he won't try to jump off the deck". I said, "yes, but if he isn't paying attention, or gets scared by something silly & backs up..."
 
Today Cubby is 14 weeks. He is 14 inches and 12-1/4 pounds (more or less). He has figured out how to get off the couch (and promptly had an accident -- however, my dramatic lament catching him in the act appeared to have really made him think.) We are signed up for school starting Oct. 2nd (basic) and more than likely NOT going to kinder because I don't want off-leash play. He has Melli and Shay for that. Melli still lets him maul her. Shay is starting to play a bit with him. The bigger he gets the more comfortable Shay gets -- or maybe it's just the time factor. We are now working on stay and leash walking. He won't walk on anything around the neck but will walk on a harness just great. We will NOT allow pulling and train right through that to loose lead and heeling. I know where my trainer wants us to be and to go during the course of classes, and we will be there. I think ultimately, I want to focus on scent work. We have 3 classes and after those one is pretty well ready for competition/certification. If he is really good, we will track. Urban tracking. I would like to track pets who have escaped. I met a lady years ago that did that and I wanted to get into it but I moved. As of now we have one ear tipped and one ear almost completely up. I have no idea where they will ultimately land, but it really doesn't matter. The two vet exams have shown him healthy and in just a couple weeks he and I really get to hit the highways and byways free and fearless. I can't wait!

So, Cubby is going to be the pet-est quality of the year. While his daddy is of a good family, his momma is of average stock unless you go back 4-5 generations where there are some old and defunct well-known kennel names -- Cubby is ginormous, bizarrely colored with a dorsal stripe, ears up or mismatched, too long a tail (almost drags the ground), very narrow head, unusual dark blaze, raccoon eyes. But you know what, he will be magnificent because in the last week or so, he has really gotten in those beady little eyes "the look", the one that says I love you with all my soul and I will do anything for you. THAT is all that matters.
 
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If he stays shaded he will look a lot like Emmy. The dorsal stripe thing, though, is just weird. He also has a lighter tan strip on both sides in the armpits where a harness band would go and some areas with more grayish. It's different.

I know he could turn out to be anything -- my Shay was a black folded ear pup and turned into classic saddle prick ear. I was shocked at about 5 months when his color changed. Had no idea he would do that.
 
Happy fourteen weeks, Cubby!!

Emmy says to tell him that she too had raccoon eyes. She looked like she was wearing spectacles for the longest time! So there may be hope for him yet. :biggrin2:
 
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