Friday, February 5, 2021 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
After careful consideration, DORY has been released from advanced training. Dory, affectionately known by Ashley as “Dorisaurus Rex”, has decided that she would much rather spend her life out of cape. Her dedication to her chosen people and her ability to sense when...
Friday, January 8, 2021 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY has been working in or out of head halti and going on field trips to various places. Her loose leash walking continues to look sharper. With going out and about to various places for field trips, she has had a few instances of wanting to toilet at inappropriate...
Friday, December 4, 2020 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY has been practicing her loose leash walking with a head halti to help her generalize loose leash walking. She still has spunk and is very keen to work on skills. She loves to work on the skill “my lap” and is getting better at calm durations. Skills being...
Friday, November 6, 2020 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY is getting much strong at loose leash walking and self-regulating to stay in the zone when she is in quieter places. She is working towards being able to maintain this in various environments. She really likes to be close with her handler and will sometimes...
Friday, October 9, 2020 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY is back in the advanced kennel and enjoying working on interrupter skills the most! She is very keen. She is also working on obedience and defaults in public. Sometimes she gets excited and walks a bit ahead so she is trying out a head-halti from time to time to...
Friday, September 4, 2020 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY has been out with her advanced sitters practicing various skills. Her heels and sides are always enthusiastic along with her go ins. She is very eager to work and learn and her confidence is growing with skills such as leave it for food on floor and obedience...
Friday, August 7, 2020 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
DORY joined Ashley’s string at the end of June and spent some time in the advanced kennel working on various skills so that Ashley could get to know her. Dory is now staying at home with her sitters to practice foundations using the online training platform of video...
Monday, June 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
With COVID restrictions still in place in May, there was not much happening, so Dory went to a sitter for a few days. I think a change of scenery and people was a good thing for her, and as it turned out, she visited a couple places she had never been. Dory gave me...
Friday, May 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory is definitely maturing and with all that’s going on with social distancing and no off leash time, Dory is much calmer when she see’s a dog or someone she knows from a distance, like Doug & Pride. I felt Dory needed a change of scenery so she went...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
We arrived home from Kenya on March 2nd and picked Dory up on our way home. We sure missed her. There were lots of errands to do for a few days afterwards so Dory was out with us a lot, going to the bank, grocery shopping, etc. I had a specialist appointment and she...
Sunday, March 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory was spayed this month, so we kept things pretty low key for a week. We dropped Dory off at the sitter on Valentine’s Day, as we left for our trip to Kenya. Dory spent 2 weeks with Marie and had so many different experiences! She went to school and a...
Saturday, February 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Happy January 2020 and it looks like Dory has turned a corner with her recall – she’s been rocking it! When we’re on the trails with Dory, off leash playing with other dogs, and we call her, she comes running like there’s nothing more...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory had a fun Christmas with family and friends and other dogs. Santa brought her a big stuffed moose and milk bones which she was very happy about. I had hip replacement surgery at the beginning of December so Dory went to a sitter the week I had surgery. This was...
Sunday, December 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory was in heat until the middle of November. Since she was not going into public, we worked on her recall in the house from upstairs to downstairs which she was very enthusiastic about. We took Dory to a great off leash area near our cabin after her heat was...
Friday, November 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory and I went to the Best Buy de-stress event. She loved the attention! Her “thing” is sitting on people’s feet or laps, which everyone enjoys. We also attended E-Comm where people were getting to know her and again she brought them lots of...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory has had a very social month starting with her staying a few days with her sponsor, Celeste, and her St. John’s ambulance dog, Jo (or as we call her, “Auntie Jo”) whom Dory loves. Released PADS dog Dune came for a play; he’s much, much...
Sunday, September 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
August was a busy month. We had my daughter’s dog, Berkeley (who is a “Shorkey”), stay with us for ten days. Dory wanted to play with him, however he kept to himself except when they ran together in the forest. We had more family stay with us,...
Thursday, August 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
July was a very busy month, starting with Canada Day celebrations on July 1 and then Independence Day celebrations on July 4th at our cabin in the states. Dory came for dinner with us on my husband’s & my anniversary. She stayed under the table the whole...
Monday, July 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
The month started out a little rough for Dory with her not feeling well. After she recovered, though, she was back to her happy, energetic self. We’ve been doing some reno’s at the house, getting several dump truck loads of dirt delivered and a bobcat...
Saturday, June 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory was in heat for the first half of May so nothing too exciting to report. Two days after her heat ended we did the puppy swap. Dory went from living in the burbs to being a city girl taking the bus every day and hanging out in an office. Apparently she did well...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory & I went to another de-stress event at the beginning of the month where she brought her usual cuddles & smiles to the students. Dory accompanied us to a hockey banquet with over 200 people, she did great sitting under the table throughout the night and...
Monday, April 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Dory continues to be a fun, energetic girl however it’s been a challenging month with her being an adolescent. We stopped using the gentle leader and have been really focusing on good loose leash walking without it and she’s doing well.Dory continues to...
Friday, March 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
February has been a busy month, besides Dory’s legs getting longer if that is possible it has been a month of firsts. Dory experienced her first snow, snowman, plane ride and visit to Eagle Ridge Hospital. We flew to Calgary for my mom’s 93rd birthday...
Friday, February 1, 2019 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Pupdate: Well January hasn’t been as exciting as December but it’s still been a ton of fun. Dory goes to a trail near our house and sometimes runs around with some PADS friends or just other dogs we meet up with, this is a good place where we practice meet...
