Mason_Gibbs

Heaps of my family live in the UK but i think the weather would depress me

Nope they now look like mini labs

Just saw picture of the pups they have grown so much in a week!!! So so beautiful

I think he is just putting her in her place

Yeah, thanks for rubbing it in!! Well remember how spazz Mason was at holding????? He had a lot of work to do! His latest idea tho is to try carry 2 dummies at once which is a huge no so i have a new thing to work on now. Ruby is still ahead of him

RS you, me and the 2 flatcoat ladies must meet up to train again i really enjoyed that

Yeah mirawee about 55 mins for me too RS i am lucky that i have a retrieving partner so close mason loves it and has come along so well now for me to just get over my bird phobia lol.

My dog has had a dodgy stomach since having antibiotics about 10 days ago. It will be fine for a day, then one stool will be soft with like a mucous in it. Then a few days will go by and all will be fine again. I waa wondering if he can have some inner health plus and how many per day ( humans take 1 only). ETA i thought about worming him as he hasnt been wormed for awhile ( and we had a friends dog stay here for 2,5 weeks) but I dont want to worm him if it will make it worse. Seeing derm today and will ask her opinion as she knows him well.

Beautiful pics Suziewong

Morning everyone

My lab had a horrible habit of grabbing the lead and chewing it, i think i ruined him for tug tho as i kept discouraging him from doing it and now he doesnt really like tug

Imo its much better for a pup to go on a long bushwalk offlead then do exercises like fetch etc with sudden stops, twists and turns. They will stop/ slow downwhen tired

Mish he is beautiful!!

Sorry Emery - its the hardest thing us humans ever have to do but also the kindest.

I fell over my dog doing agility, these things happen my lab and my friends lab ran straight into my friends legs and knocked her flying- they dont look where they are running!!

Yip im 9-5 with a half hr break

Wilbur is adorable!! Love labs

I will join in the convo on my lunch breaks, working full day today, 1st time in ages!!

Happy happy birthday Amypie!! RS i have a canon 450d got it 2nd hand taking it with next weekend to see pups

Wow that is far from you Oso!!

Some councils in perth refuse to give the extra permit, I think RS's area is one of them??

Ohhh I envy you having your pup only ten minutes away!! Ours is over 4 hours away!! I envy people who got to see their lil pups as newborns!! I wonder if there's a thunder noise cd you can get to play so that the pup gets used to thunder? We had terrible thunder here last night Yes i know cleanrun.com had them at one stage. Joelle I thought about Carolyns classes but its such a drive that I am going to give it a miss. Mason only went to class after his 10 week shot ( so he was 12 weeks) and I will take pup from 13 weeks to our obedience clubs pup school.

One word of advice I would not pick puppy up all the time to get him to do the stuff you want him to do ( ie pick im up and put him in the crate). Make him walk in on his own. I had a friends little dog here and I found I was picking him up to make him do things instead of luring him etc ( its not my dog so I wasnt going to train him for them) but I guess my point is this, if i had done it with my lab there is no way I could pick him up now to get him to do things, and IMO its better for a small dog to learn to do things when they are asked and not carried and put where they must go. Small or big I feel they must work for their rewards and learn how to learn. I was talking to someone about this the other day, if puppy is never taught how to learn then you only have trouble further down the line. Crate games DVD is an excellent DVD, I also like THe Focused Puppy book from Clean Run ( free shipping ATM) great ideas in there about how to raise a pup.

I have been doing more retrieving training with my boy he way prefers it to the obedience :)He is coming along well, he was collecting the correct dummy if 2 were thrown and I sent him for one ( the one I wanted) but now this week he has gotten the idea in his head that he has to try and collect both so we are busy doing more work on that!

30 mill - sheesh I could live on that, it would be a struggle but I will manage!! LOL!!!!