Nancy Sunderland's Blog – October 2009 Archive (3)

Sable is cute as a button and slowly but surely learning some manners in Obediance classes. She was 10.5 pounds last time I weighed her and she is fully vacinated. We have a nice, long lead set up for her so she can run aroubd SAFELY when we can't go with her. She loves to play with our big labs! Yesterday while we were outside I tethered Sable to Cody! It was so cute! The big Yellow Lab acted as somewhat of an anchor to the wild and crazy puppy, classic!

Well, we just got back from obedience class # 2 and Sable did really well! Her tough points were "come close" (the heel position) and not jumping on people when they approached. She did come, sit, down, stay all very well though! I was so proud of her. She did get a little stubborn on the "come" part and stayed in the sit position, refusing to move forward, Peg, the trainer said, "That's a little bit of the poodle in her coming out." So we tried a "gentle tugging" of the lead as opposed to a… Continue

Giardia: Well, Sable's poop was still soft, I was afraid she had worms, so I brought a poo sample with me to her last vet visit. We found out the next day that Sable had contracted Giardia, which one usually gets from drinking from stream, ponds, or any standing water, (even a puddle!) Well, I think our hiking extravaganza last weekend is the most likely culprit, oh well, I guess we'll hold off on our next hike until her stomach is a little more, how shall I say, durable? The Vet (Dr. Becky,… Continue