Now that Ziggie has turned 6 months old, I realize how much
he has learned and especially grown. He has at least tripled his size, and he
eats through a large bag of puppy food in a week. He has been potty trained,
fully vaccinated, neutered, and knows many tricks such as sitting, laying down,
and sitting up. He also knows high five. He knows what outside means as well as
go and stay. He is good in the car as well. He has had many obstacles
throughout the way. He has chewed up only my retainers and broken picture
frames so far, but I'm sure there will be more to come. I can't help but love
my Ziggie puppy!
A Puppy Story: Training Day By Day
Monday, May 21, 2012
Jumping
Now that Ziggie is just about full grown (I hope), he really
needs to get the point that I am extremely against him jumping on me. He has
officially given me ten open cuts in just the last week. He only jumps when I
get home, but it is tedious never the less. He is learning that I don't want
him to jump up, it is just the fact that he feels he needs to beat Maui to the
punch when she is also present. When Maui isn't there, he doesn't jump, and he
is the perfect angel. Oh, Ziggie!
Still Roudy
Getting Ziggie neutered was my attempt to make him calmer. Sadly, this failed greatly due to the fact he is about ten times more hyper than I could have ever thought was possible. He no longer is as aggressive or attacks Maui, so I suppose that was the real goal behind taking his man card. Still, now he requires two daily walks and tons of attention. If my alarm doesn't sound in time for his morning walk, he decides it wouldn't be a bad thing to jump up and lick my face until I roll out of bed at last.
Possible Infection
Ziggie had to make an emergency visit to the vet last night.
From his surgery, he could have developed an infection. After 5 hours in the
animal emergency room, we got news that he had just given himself a minor sore
from what I call his cone of shame, and we needed to just keep it off of him,
but keep an extremely close eye on him for the remaining week he needed to heal.
He just had to be obnoxious to the attending vet as well; he ended up giving
her a minor cut down her entire arm. Sounds just like my Ziggie.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Home at Last
Ziggie is finally home! I'm so happy. I missed him like the stars miss the
sky or peanut butter misses jelly. He has a funny cone on his head now for
another ten days. It's really very annoying. He's such a klutz. He will just
run into things as often as he pleases: doors, windows, food/water bowl, me,
and just about any other object his face can reach. I officially have bruises
from his cone on his head from feet to mid-thigh. Sadly, his neutering slowed
him down absolutely not one bit. He is his monster self just as much as ever.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Missing My Ziggie
Today, Ziggie actually went through the procedure to get him neutered. He has already been gone one night and tonight he will be gone as well. He did really well last night and today during surgery. I miss him so badly; however, because now I don't have him waking me up and greeting me at the door when I get home. I really liked how spazy he was and now that he's gone a couple days, I value it much more. When he gets back and rips up my personal belongings, I may just be happy. He will still get punished to teach him a lesson, but I won't truly be mad. Poor Ziggie!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Fetch
I figure with two days until Ziggie is an impatient for three days for his neutering, I should try to get my playing with him in before. He really isn't getting the concept of the ball, stick or Frisbee all too well; however, he is just loving his brand new big rope I got from petsmart. He brings it back and everything when I tell him to "fetch." The problem: when he brings it back, he won't drop it. It's simple enough to push between his jaw lightly until he releases, but I would still prefer him to just let go when I say drop. It will just have to be a work in progress.
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