Oliver's Blog – November 2008 Archive (7)

A 12 week old golden retriever puppy (named Wally) joined our puppy class today and Oliver was absolutely smitten. He likes all of the other puppies in class, but he had a difficult time paying attention today since all he wanted to do was play with this other puppy that looked so similar to himself!



Our teacher decided to use Oliver for an exercise on how to teach them to walk on a loose leash (i.e. they don't PULL you, there is always slack in the leash). Although Oliver… Continue

At 9 weeks old, Oliver has mastered "sit" and "down! Yay! He's such a smart puppy! Next we'll be working on… Continue

He says, "Mom. I hate you."

So, here's how it went:



1. He was okay with playing in the empty tub. Yay!

2. I put some peanut butter on the wall of the tub so he could lick it off and associate good things with bath time. Yay!

3. I started running the water really slowly. He was timid, but okay with it. Yay!

4. I turned the… Continue

Oliver is 9 weeks old today!



...and we just got back from his first puppy class! He was very well behaved and didn't potty all over the place like a lot of the older puppies did. I'm rather partial to him and so I'm a bit biased, so I was surprised when other puppy owners singled me out from all of the other puppy owners and told me how cute and well behaved he was. :) One lady told me he looks like that puppy from the Charmin toilet paper commercial, ha. Anyway, we were introduced… Continue

Things are going well! Yesterday Oliver had a few accidents in the house while his dad was "watching" him while I went to the store. I put WATCHING in quotations for a reason...haha. Jonathan admits that he was doing several things at once, but I think he learned his lesson quickly as it was his first time he was alone with the puppy since we brought him home. ...Oh well, today is a new day!



Last night we went to bed at 11pm and Oliver walked into his crate without any coaxing from… Continue

We have many nicknames for the pup. So far we call him: Ollie, Ollie-Ollie-Oxen-Free, Oliver Twist, Mr. Twist, and Fetus face (because he has such a baby face in comparison with the rest of his body lol).



Yesterday (during the day), when he fell asleep while we were playing in the living room (being a puppy is HARD WORK!) we'd transfer him into Chloe's crate to see how he'd react. We're using Chloe's old crate at the moment since we wanted to wait to see how tall he would be, but… Continue

Introducing...OLIVER!!!



This morning we slept in. When we got up we decided to go out to breakfast. Afterward we were going to take something back to a local store, but when I told my husband Jonathan that he was turning the wrong way he said, "Nope...we actually have something more important to do today." He then took out the GPS and surpriseeeee he put in… Continue