Caught Simba playing with Hannah today the same way he plays with Nala. Yay! He’s finally accepted Hannah into the pack! No more growling when she comes near. This is a big milestone.
Her training is coming along quite nicely. She’ll sit on command now, almost has down down pat and goes into her crate willingly. Need to work on wait and stay and getting a good recall going. Now I can start taking her other places to work on commands too.
More Hannah
Now that Hannah’s starting to settle in a little more, I’m beginning to see some more of her personality come out.
She’s a really sweet girl, loves to be around her people, eats like there’s no tomorrow and totally food motivated. Training her has been pretty easy so far. She’s got a lot of energy, gets really excited (especially if there’s food involved) and seems like she’d get along pretty well with other dogs. I’ll have to give her a try at the dog park soon to check that out.
She walks pretty well on leash, but will definitely take off if she sees something interesting. She’s the kind of dog that needs a structured and disciplined (ordered) house to live in. If you let her have her way, she’ll take it and more. All she needs is consistency, a nice long walk by your side, a comfy spot to lay at your feet and she’ll be your best friend.
I think she’s still got a little more time to spend with me before she’s ready to go to a permanent home, but in the meantime I’m working hard to get her ship-shape and fattened up so that she’ll be a very well-behaved dog where ever she ends up going.
Anybody out there have room in their life for this sweetie?
Hannah Banana
Hannah has a few issues that need to be worked on (including some house training), but so far she’s turning out to be a pretty nice dog and starting to settle in. I think Simba would still rather not have her around, but he’ll have to learn to get used to another dog besides Nala.
First Foster!
Picked up my first foster dog yesterday from Wild Heir Lab Resue. Her name is Hannah, a yellow lab with a very happy personality. A little timid about some things, but a very nice and sweet dog. Needs some training and a little fattening up, but I think she’ll make someone a good pet.
Started working with her on getting her to recognize her name and respond to it. The initial training is reminding me of how much patience I need for dog training. Two years of reasonably well behaved Nala and Simba have spoiled me I think. Fortunately she’s a lab and very food motivated so training should be pretty easy.
I don’t think Simba’s entirely happy with this new interloper, but I think he’ll get used to her in a few days.
Defending territory
The new hospital building hasn’t even been fully occupied yet and I’m already having to defend my territory from poachers.
We were given a room for storing all the new equipment needed to test the x-ray equipment over there. It would be completely impractical to haul stuff back and forth every time I needed to test the x-ray equipment there. Plus the room provides me space to test the portable x-ray and mobile c-arm units too.
Today I wandered over there to find the room and start moving things over. When I found it, I discovered that someone had pasted a carefully crafted ‘Physician Workstation’ label over the sign that said ‘Physics Workroom’.
Was someone trying to fix what they thought was a room labeling mistake, or was someone trying to claim it for themselves? Personally I think it was the latter. Whatever the label, the key I was given unlocked the door, so it’s mine.
Off came the label and in went my stuff.