Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Pet related posts
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.
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.
Anybody out there between Atlanta and Charleston headed this way this weekend who wants to give a lift to a couple of Labrador Retrievers? They’re coming from a shelter in Alabama and headed to a Lab rescue group based in Georgetown. Looks like their trip up to Atlanta is covered so far, but they still need to get from there to Charleston. If you’re headed this way, have room (they’ll be in crates) and can give them a lift, please think about helping out!
Transports are typically set up in relatively short legs (1-2 hours), so you don’t have to be travelling the entire distance from Atlanta to Charleston (although if you were, that would be really cool too). If you’re somewhere in between and can help out with one of the legs, that would be marvelous.
I may even end up fostering one of the dogs that you transport!
If you’re interested, check out the details.
Some random favourites from the dog show
One of the rescue dogs from Wild Heir Lab Rescue
A yellow lab in the show ring
Taking a peek
Crate surfing
A yellow lab waiting for his turn with the judge
More pictures over in the Gallery
Simba’s discovered that the two toilets in the house are great places to get water when he’s feeling too lazy to walk over to the proper water bowl in the kitchen or use the water bottle in his crate.
One problem is that he’s a really messy drinker, and ends up soaking the mats and dripping all over the place.
The other problem is that I usually put those Clorox toilet tabs in the tank to help keep things clean. Probably not too healthy for him to be drinking the water.
One more reason to remember to keep the lid down.