guess it's been awhile...

since I logged on & posted a little about our ity bity .. she will be 11 month old next week.. where has the time come! She is full of energy & most days never stops!  We have completed 3 obedience class! she knows sit, stay, wait, place, shake, give, leave (this is the top one!) , get back. I am sure there are a few more! We are teaching her names of toys & objects now.. like ball, rope etc. 

We have discovered that she has quite the nose & are considering taking her to a K9 Nose class.. just learn the basics of sniff & find, more for search & rescue. She never stops sniffing, to the point she gets in trouble because it! She is always right, when she wants something underneath, she is relentless to have us retrieve it.. she has us well trained lol. 

Winter is upon us & we are not getting out of the house enough.. so we play ball in the house all day long!. she loves her balls.. but then anything in her mouth makes her a happy girl! We need a visit to the vets, after that she can go swimming at the local Doggie pool... that should help with the winter energy!


I put the Christmas tree up & she sniffed it good & has not bothered it yet! she is so good about not eating what is not hers! She doesn't like our moving lighted bear .. she doesn't know what to think about it! so she barks!

Soon we will be celebrating her birthday! 

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14 weeks

Our little girl is getting big! her last weigh in, she was 18 lb. In honor of her birthday on Tuesday... we are having her spayed.. it was a tough decision.. but glad it will be done!


I gave her a med. milk bone & she decided she was going to hide it.. oh my it was so funny watching her dig a hole in the blankets & then cover with her nose! our Shadow used to bury or hide her bones.. so cute. think we have about 5-6 bury in the living room!

2 & half weeks

we have had her now almost 3 weeks... my how she has grown.. she is responding to treats.. will come if you get her attention.  Her & Apollo have had a good day.. he tried to play again with her.. but she wants him as her personal chew toy! He is correcting & being very patient.. most important today she is responding to his warnings. I also have been yelling OW! when she bites my hands & she is responding to that as well... She has played hard today so far.. glad she is napping!

going into her 9th week

Well Dakota has grown so much in 2 weeks! Her nose is a tracking machine, her eyesight is still having tracking issues.. but that is expected. Going up the stairs is really easy now.. but going down is still the scary propositon. Potty training is coming along too.. peddling still happens.. but most of the time she tells us when she needs to poo.

she has started stocking her toys, she will make eye contact on a toy & slowly creep up on it & then bounce! cracks us up. Bri bought her a new football this week.. she loves it.

 Al & I want to get the fencing up, right now she still follows us, but she is developing a mind of her own ... she loves to follow us.. we need to make sure she continues that. I am doing some training, sitting, leave & come are the focus for now.

We didn't get our training session in last Saturday due to snow.. but it might be better for her.. another week older. I really want her (us) to pass the good citizen cert from the AKC... we need to trust her & vise versa.

Apollo is starting to except her more & more, he is laying on the floor & putting up with her play (chewing really )  He gave her a good warning a couple days ago, since then a little growl goes a long way with her.. she backs away now & is learning respect. He doesn't like her to cry & will come to her aid.. they really are making friends.. this is good.

Onto another day...

a week & half

well we have made it through a week & half & all is pretty good. Dakota is seriously teething now. I think I helped teach her how to chew yesterday, with a piece of ice, it helped sooth her. Today she is liking her Kong much better & she has figured out how to chew on it.

I tried a wet towel frozen, but she was having it, not sure she liked the texture, but may try it again. She is playing a bit harder now & gaining confidence!

Potty training is going, though we have to work on me seeing her signals that she wants out. Guess it will be a question for the trainer on Sat.

Hope it does snow today, so she can get a chance to rump in it... we will see...

Dakota Day 5

another great night! & she has pooed outside ! we are making progress with the potty training.


Dakota is starting to make eye contact with us.. short as it maybe, she is starting to understand our language & how the house works..

So happy she loves her kennel.. I like having a good safe place to put her when I need to be out of the room..