PUPPY TRAIN BLOG

Well I had wondered just how Lily was doing with her travel training.  Lily is becoming the best little mascot for Harris Plumbing.  haha  That is what I call her anyway.  That pup is on the go all the time, but then my sister and her husband are on the go all the time with their business:

Harris Services Unlimited dba Harris Plumbing since 1993 has been providing full service professional plumbing for new and remodeling construction work for commercial remodeling-new construction and residential customers from Tampa to Lakeland, Orlando and north to Jacksonville, Florida. Harris Plumbing has done work for some of the biggest names in business, Sears, Radio Shack, Lowes, Chucky Cheese and WalMart. Yet they have continued offering quality plumbing service and repair to local area residential and commercial customers, in Dade City, Zephyrhills, Ridge Manor, and Brooksville and the surrounding area since opening in 1993. They are licensed, bonded and insured.  They are licensed in several states Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Ohio.

That pup just doesn’t know how lucky she is to get to travel as she does!!

Thor starts his training next week.  Thor is the call name for (Buck) in the last Candy X Parker litter, videos of that litter are still on my website.  Thor was the largest pup in the litter and from the size of him I am expecting him to be about the size of Parker.  Thor is Brena’s brother and will get to start seeing his sister at group training.  Thor will be heading in the direction of schutzhund training.  I was able to view some testing of Thor and it won’t take Thor long to know the game.  It all seems to be fun and games to pups for sure.  I hope to get video of Thor with his training.  It always is exciting to be able to watch training progress of pups, especially when you own sire and mother.  I was pleased with the litter and will be glad to see some of the pups being trained.  These training sessions help with obedience, socialization and confidence building.

Well I took Brena (pup) and Candy (mom) to training yesterday and both did well.  I still need to bring my camera and get video of Candy… she has matured since her litter and I am believing I will be able to get her titled if she continues to do well with me.  I have been very pleased with how her protection work is coming along.

Well being a General Contractors pup, you are often on the go with owners to check jobs on the weekends.  This is a travel training weekend in Florida, often leading to the big cities as Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville.  I am waiting for new pictures of my sister and her pup with their travels this weekend.  I can’t wait to see little Lily, her travels should bring her up to Kentucky in the spring. If you are in need of some good General Contractors in Florida check their website and get a free estimate. http://harrisserviceinc.com

I did a video clip of Brena with her mom then her dad playing with her… well dad was more “chilling out” and letting the pup wear herself out.  Dad will always go out and do this for me, sure helps use up some of her energy.  Brena continues her training..  I think Brena will be bigger than her mom, what do you think?  Very short video clip, but you get the picture.

Video click here

General Contractors in Florida have long hours.  I talked to my sister, Connie Harris, this morning and little Lily will be going into the office today.  Lily loves to travel and makes herself at home in the offices of Harris Service Unlimited (visit their website).  I asked how training is going and was told I would get some new puppy pictures of this pup who thinks she one special General Contractors pup in Florida.  They are preparing for a big trip, Lily will soon experience some Florida General Contractors travel this weekend. I look forward to new pictures.  This training will help in areas of socialization and travel training.

My sister in Florida is also in the puppy training mode.  Their business is plumbing, remodeling in Florida, being licsened in several other states.  Yes even plumbing & general contractors get puppies and start into the puppy training mode.  haha    Little Lily is a Yorkie, and cute as a button, has started her travel training, being an office pup in plumbing, remodeling in Florida.  Little Lily thinks she should be in charge.  Here is a picture of the pup.

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Brena has started to a little more consistent training the last couple weeks.  Candy (Brena’s mom) has also started back to training.  Candy has matured a bit and I am planning to continue her training towards titling her.  They share their time in the training.  Some of the things Candy will need to overcome is leaving me to do her tasks.  Candy tends to want to stay by me, which she even does at home.  For Candy being with me 24/7 would be a perfect life for her, one of the things I really love about her.  She is no farm dog unless I am out on the farm, unlike the rest of the pack of dogs.  You need good trainers to help overcome these type things and lucky for me, I have such a trainer.  I see improvement in Candy each time we train, our next step when we have nice weather, is to see if we then can move that to an outside setting.  On video she would look great which I plan to get some at next training.

Brena is being worked more with food training to get more precision work in a calmer state.  She is also worked a bit in a more excited state with her tug play.  Brena has finally just lost the last puppy tooth, so in a couple of weeks she will have a bit more fun with tug play, her favorite thing.

A great video clip of the journey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXGD4hP1Ro

For a puppy trainer, any time there is a gathering and you have a puppy in training, it is a great time to get the puppy out and evaluate the reactions.  Brena, 4 months old, was brought in to the family gathering to see just what she would do with all the people and grandchildren.  She was put on a flex lead so there would be some control if needed.  Brena totally amazed me not wanting to jump on the children, almost recognizing they were babies too.  I just love GSD’s with that temperament.  Brena did so well, she was released shortly after proving her calmness and was just loose with the family and children.  Video Clip