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Post by Richard S. » Tue. Jan. 27, 2009 7:04 pm

I think we have winner, was a lot of work but we have her going to the door to go out already but you still have to keep an eye on her. Not bad for less than 8 weeks. :D She'll either go to the door or follow me out. Only trouble is there is two steps off the back porch and she hasn't figured out the going down concept yet so I have to put her on the ground. She'll occasionally jump off them but is still afraid. The dumbass will run up the stairs in the house then whine at the top when she realizes she's trapped there. :lol: I've somewhat have her coming on command but I think that's more of "I want to play" as opposed to listening but it's a start. I walk her around the house a couple of times a day with no leash just to get her used to the idea of following me which she does pretty good. I had to sweep the walks of all the interesting smelling things to keep her attention. :P

I lost my no poop in the house record but I didn't expect to keep it. :P


 
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Post by SuperBeetle » Tue. Jan. 27, 2009 7:09 pm

So you are not keeping the poop ? Ya gonna burn it? :nana:

 
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Post by Richard S. » Tue. Jan. 27, 2009 7:32 pm

I keep it in the freezer next to Sundays dinner.

Speaking of poop she had worms. I guess a lot of pups have them. According to the vet they lay dormant in the mother until she gets pregnant and they transferred in the womb from the mother. Another mystery solved as I always wondered how they miraculously appeared. They gave her a worm pill right before we got her which apparently didn't work well so we had to wait until Friday to give her the stuff from the vet and that worked within hours.

I'm not so sure I can eat spaghetti anymore. :sick: I didn't know if I should do dance or puke when she *censored* them out. She had a lot of them and I'll tell you she was completely different after that.

 
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Post by Freddy » Tue. Jan. 27, 2009 8:48 pm

Yaaa, worms are no fun. Our older Aussey had them as a pup & it took once to the store & twice to the vets. The second time the vet said "This stuff WILL kill the worms, and only rarely kills the dog along with it". He was half joking, but it was powerful stuff. That's puppy life! Once they're gone, they're gone for good almost all the time.

How's the pup doing? Sit, stay. shake a paw, roll over, do the dishes?

 
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Post by Richard S. » Tue. Jan. 27, 2009 9:00 pm

They gave us a second larger dose we have to give her next week. I guess the idea is check to see if there is any dead worms after second dose.

I posted above she's going to the door but you still have to keep an eye on her a little. I have her coming to me on command but I'm pretty sure that's more of "I want to play" than actually understanding but nonetheless it's just repetition and she'll learn it. I have her follow me for a walk outside around the house a couple of times a day, I keep whistling, clapping my hands to keep her attention and calling her... again repetition. Eventually it will simply be the whistle, one great thing about my last dog was I only had to whistle and no matter where she was she'd come. Was kind of fun in way because if we were out in field or something she'd be 100 hundred yards away and I give that whistle.... the head would go up and she'd start running towards me. Also I don't look like an idiot yelling the damn dogs name. :lol:

 
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Post by Richard S. » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 1:17 am

Well just an update, worms are of course long gone. She's getting to be a live wire. I took her down the river bank and let her off the leash once and ...zoooooooooooooommmm. :oops: She came back eventually but the road is very close and I'm worried about her getting hit by a car so we won't be doing that again until she listens better and understands her boundaries. Here's some more video, listens petty good for 4 1/2 months.

Have her doing some other things, she'll fetch anything you throw and give it to you most of the time on command. That's tough one because the kids like to play tug-of-war and she always wants to play that. She's learning, take while to get some decent obedience.

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Post by 009to090 » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 7:46 am

Richard S. wrote:Only trouble is there is two steps off the back porch and she hasn't figured out the going down concept yet so I have to put her on the ground.
Our "Home Security System" was the same way. He was 70lbs when we got him, and he had never been down a flight of stairs before. Ran up them just fine, but would cry like a puppy when he wanted to come down. I trained him by picking him up and placing him on the first step and making him go down. Then the second step, then the third step. Within a week, he went down the whole flight of steps by himself.
Never crated him, he always slept under the table until he figured out he could see the deer from the living room window. Since then, he always sleeps in front of it, scaning the woods for "intruders".
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Post by 009to090 » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 7:48 am

Richard S. wrote:Well just an update,
I just played your first video for my wife. MIKOS heard your puppy whining and came running, and tilted his head at my PC ,like the RCA Victor Dog. :D
It was a concerned look! :shock:

 
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Post by Poconoeagle » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 9:03 am

Molly is very pretty! she is doing quite well for her age. :)

 
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Post by beemerboy » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 9:18 am

When I got my golden at least twice a day for a couple of weeks I put her on leash and walked her around the edge of my lawn. When ever she strayed over the edge I gave the leash a little tug and said "you don't go there". Summer has not gone over the line at all since.

I've watched from the window when she chases rabbits, Summer will run as fast as she can and when she reaches the woods she put on the brakes and walks away.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 11:35 am

DVC500_at_last wrote: and he had never been down a flight of stairs before.
That issue has resolved itself, she started going down them. Now she runs down them usually jumping the last 4 or 5. :lol:

 
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Post by mr1precision » Wed. Apr. 22, 2009 1:34 pm

Cute Pup! My daughter would love to have one like her.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Sat. Aug. 01, 2009 7:48 am

Just an update... we're almost passed the I don't want to listen stage. She's doing quite well. I have her walking without a leash and she heals for the most part. Even saw a squirrel today and stopped when she was about to take off and I yelled. :P Her nickname is "Super Dog", she jumps everything. 3 front steps? It's one step for her... LOL She can just about grab a toy out of hand my almost shoulder height. Thinking about getting a frisbee and see how well that works. She fetches on command too. I'll have her sit then throw a toy. She'll sit until you command her to get it.

Funny thing on today's walk, there's two downward slopes at the river. We just go a lot of rain the last few days so it came up. She has this bad habit of running full ahead. So she ran down the first slope, hit the second slope but instead of the path going down to the rocks that was usually there nothing but water... Kerploooosh! Funny as hell because I could see her trying to slam the brakes on the last second.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Thu. Sep. 07, 2023 2:03 am

I'm not sure where the time goes but unfortunately after 14 1/2 years I had to put Mollie to sleep on Tuesday. It seems like just yesterday she was poking her head out of the small dog carrier to smell my hand when we first met. If you watch the video I posted so many years ago she climbs up my leg at the end of it, that was a lifelong thing. It was how she would greet me in the morning or if she didn't see me for a few days.

Mollie was a fantastic dog, not a mean bone in her body and a really fun dog to have. She was half beagle and half Springer Spaniel. If you have ever been around one of those Springer Spaniels you know how thy are wired, that is exactly how Mollie was. If she was excited her whole ass would be going around like a propeller with her tail. She would chase a stick or ball into the river as far as you could throw it and while I never tested it would probably keep doing it until she passed out. She also liked to catch frisbees but would only catch a few, I think it hurt her mouth, I had meant to get a rubber one but never got around to it.

She loved being by people. One of the funnier things I saw her do was at my Cousins house. At the time his youngest kid was about 4 years old and he was very hesitant about being around the dog. We were in his living room and the kid sits on the ground in the middle floor to watch TV. Mollie promptly walks over, plops down and butts up next to him. The look on his face was priceless. He scooches over a little bit and Mollie scooches right over next to him. This went on for a while, it was the funniest thing. He must of moved over about 2 or 3 feet it total before he gave up.

She was also the most athletic dog I have seen, in her prime she could jump through my car window without a step and could jump through pickup window with a running start. Her thigh muscles were about the size of a grapefruit. The neighbor watched her for short time once and she had two small dogs inside a 3 foot fence. I had to warn her that fence was in no way an impediment to Mollie.

The saying is old dogs can't learn new tricks. Not sure how true that is but old dogs can certainly learn old tricks. One of the things she learned as puppy was how to get on the couch. I would put my hand behind her head and she would use that for leverage to crawl up. About six months ago she no longer had the strength to get on the couch and she would do the same thing once again.

She had Lyme's disease and about 5 years ago It was discovered she had Cushings disease. The Cushings is a benign tumor on the pituitary gland. In her her case the primary issue was excessive drinking, Neither of these things seemed to have any affect on her health and she was still quite active up until a year ago when she began to slow down.

About 3 months ago I discovered a swollen gland on her neck and unfortunately she was diagnosed with lymphoma, her general health began a rapid decline. Because of her age and the less than stellar success treating this we decided to not treat it so the final days of her life were not more miserable than they had to be.

On Saturday we took our last walk around the house with many breaks, about 150 feet. On Sunday she attempted to make the walk but turned around after a short distance. On Monday morning she had her last meal of sausage and I couldn't get her to eat anything after that. By Monday afternoon she couldn't stand anymore and I even had to help her stand to drink water, she never lost that insatiable thirst from the Cushings to the end. The one fortunate thing is she never appeared to be in any pain whatsoever, if she was I wouldn't of allowed her to suffer. Never a whimper or cry and she didn't bother the lymph nodes with scratching.

I'm going to post some pictures here of her face. It changed dramatically over the years. As a puppy her face was mostly black, at the time of her passing it was mostly white. Around the time she was 3 years old she started turning white, I looked this up and it happens with some beagles at early ages. She also had spots on her legs and face like a Springer Spaniel, these all but disappeared.

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About 10 years ago, you can see the white fringe on her ears and around her eyes. The black spots on her legs and snout all but disappeared in her later years. The other dog is a pocket Beagle and about 4 years younger, they were attached at the hip.

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Post by gaw » Thu. Sep. 07, 2023 2:45 am

Sorry Richard and where did those years go so fast?


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