More New Friends!

Wash keeps meeting more and more dogs, but recently he met two pups (6 months old each) who were a bit more his speed.

Meet Molly the Pembrooke Welsh Corgi, and Dakota the Malamute Husky Shepherd mix.

The rest of the gang was there too!

 Gromit and Wash ran their hearts out!

 I managed to take this adorable picture of Gromit. 

 Wash being the best buddy for a new friend. He was so calm and friendly with Dakota and made her feel safe when the other dogs were being a little too pushy and noisy. Here he is saying "Why are you lying down? Let's run!" She and Wash got along really well. 

 Tucker with Spencer in the background.

 Snoopy enjoying a rub down at the kids spa.

And Dakota enjoying some love from myself.

Even in the chaos of the new dog I got Wash to come to me (A HUGE accomplishment for us) "Come" with distractions has always been a very difficult thing for Wash and I in our training and one of the kids managed to get it with my camera!

 I called him from a loooooooong way away. 

AND HE CAME TO ME!

-Brandolyn

A Present for Wash

A little while ago the brilliant ZW, surprised Wash and I with a handmade gift for the pooch.

 If you can't tell by the first picture, it's a hand made leather collar cut, stained, fit to his size perfectly and stamped with Wash's signature line from the show Firefly.

 "I am a leaf,"

 "on the wind."

ZW asked for a good picture of Wash and his collar but the pooch was too fluffy to see the collar well, I'll have to get another one now that he's been trimmed up a bit. This was as good as I could get at the time.

THANKS A MILLION ZW!!! We love it and he wears it everyday!!!


-Brandolyn

Wash turns 8 months

Yesterday Washburn turned 8 months old!

We celebrated by having him weighed, shaved and taking him to the dog park to play with his buddies.

Wash is a healthy boy (who got into some poison ivy recently), weighing 52.5 lbs and shaggy as a carpet. So we went for a nice trim. Wash had a romp in the woods recently and didn't like the post-walk brushing I had to do to get out all of the knots in his matted hair. He's been overheating a bit recently so I thought it was about time to cut his hair.

BEFORE- Scruff-burn

AFTER- Washed-burn!!!

Apparently he was very nervous on the grooming table and wasn't very co-operative while having his legs trimmed. Silly boy. The groomers were also very surprised when he started eating the hair they had trimmed off of him. (I guess I had forgotten to tell them he LOVES hair... gross)

And, as if he knew that he had just turned 8 months old he took his first leg-up "Big Dog Pee". 

He's getting to be a big guy. Gentle giant, sweet, loving and incredibly social. 

Advanced training starts in July!!!

-Brandolyn

I can still pick him up at the moment