Richard Crowe's Blog – January 2009 Archive (5)

My Morning Doodle Fix

After Holy wakes us and gets her morning treat and belly rub; I find myself gravitating to DK to look at the new great pictures posted by members and to get my AM Doodle fix. I just love to follow the progress of individual Doodles as they progress from early puppy stages into maturity. As I look at these photos, they remind me of the joy (and occasional frustrations) with our darling Holly and how happy I am that we selected the Doodle breed, and Holly in particular, for our… Continue

Added by Richard Crowe on January 30, 2009 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Holly and the Wild Burros

We spent a week in a lovely RV park, River Lodge, on the California side of the Colorado River, just below Lake Havasu. As I was walking Holly after dark one evening, she began growling and barking and got quite agitated. I was a little concerned when I saw several shapes moving at the river's edge. I thought at first that they might be coyotes but the shapes were too large. As Holly barked, I took out my flashlight and shined it at the mysterious invaders.

It turned out that they… Continue

Added by Richard Crowe on January 15, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Holly's Evolution As A Watch Dog

We just had two Direct TV technicians come to our house to troubleshoot our TV picture, they worked until well after dark. We kept Holly and her Maltese buddies in my office so that they wouldn't bother the repair guys and to enable the techs to leave the bedroom door open (we live in Southern California and it isn't cold) so they easily could walk in and out of the house.

Holly was O.K. in the office until a technician placed a ladder outside the bay window of the office and climbed… Continue

Added by Richard Crowe on January 4, 2009 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Holly's Training

Holly graduated from Puppy Obedience Training at about six months. She learned all the basic commands, sit, down, come and stay (well - maybe not so great at staying). She also learned to walk on a loose lead.

However, Judy and I decided that Holly was not really ready for serious training because her attention span was not long enough. We decided, that since she was a pretty darn well behaved dog due to the puppy training; we would wait until her first birthday before we did any… Continue

Added by Richard Crowe on January 3, 2009 at 10:47am — 1 Comment

Fetching...

Holly is an extremely intelligent dog and trains very easily. However, she takes no interest in fetching. She will not fetch a ball; even when her best buddy (Shadow, our daughter's Labrador who has a fetch fetish) runs after the ball for hours to fetch.

I'd like Holly to fetch since it would give her a lot of structured exercise. Actually, it is not really a big deal that she doesn't fetch because she runs all over our one-acre fenced property. I probably would like her to fetch… Continue

Added by Richard Crowe on January 2, 2009 at 10:57pm — 1 Comment