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Sammy is still struggling with daddy being gone. My husband left Monday on a trip. During the day is the worst because that is his usual time with my husband who works third shift. When I take Sammy for a walk he stops to see every person walking across the street to see if it is him and he stops and stares at every car going by to see if it stop… read more

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My husband just made reservations to go visit his mother in upstate NY for a few days. He has not seen her in 25 yrs except for a brief visit when he went back for his stepfathers funeral. He leaves next Monday and she doesn't even know he's coming! He wants it to be a surprise and quite a surprise it will be. I do not know what I will do abo… read more

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Buddy went through the CGC testing this morning. As most of you probably already know, there are 10 items that he has to go through and pass each one, although at the end you are allowed to repeat one item that he may have not done well on... #1 - Accept a Friendly Stranger The dog must allow a stranger to approach and speak to the handler (ow… read more

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I know he doesn't have the greatest chance in passing but it has been a wonderful learning experience for him with the prep classes and the training at home. My best bet is going to be to tire him out before we go because if he is at the peak of excited, he doesn't have a chance. His toughest challenge is going to be not barking at another dog, w… read more

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Buddy had his first class today to prepare for the Canine Good Citizen test. He absolutely shocked me with how well he did!! I expected him to be somewhat hard to control after being cooped up all winter. I thought for sure he would be overly excited to be back playing around other dogs again. Maybe it helped calm him down some having his vet a… read more