Puppy Hungry

It's puppy season here in Utah...

I really want a puppy.

A lot.

Anything- as long as it's black... and home away from hom

This is our weekend in pictures:

This is the puppysittee dogs: Cosette (not a GDB dog) and Radisson (PIT)

Apparently Radisson likes riding in the car?



And while I had the black dogs....

Phoenix was playing with the cats at Marnie's house.
I got this picture on my phone yesterday- I guess Paisley, the cat, likes to cuddle just as much as Phoenix does.

We both had a good weekend... especially Phoenix:

Wish I could crash with a blanket in the middle of the living room too!

Evals

Phoenix has his evaluation today with our CFR, Barb. He did great.

Lacole and Kay- both Female Black Labs, joined us for our evals. We started out by sitting down and just answering some of the basic questions: How does he do in the house? Where does he sleep at night? Does he bark in the crate? Does he typically wear a Headcollar or a Flat collar?

After that we started on walking around the Gateway Mall. This has become our official evaluation spot. We typically have them here because of the variety of distractions there... Tons of people, things to look at, noises, and smells. Starting with the Food Court, of course. Phoenix started off on his headcollar working with Willie, Marnie's boyfriend who helps out a lot with the puppies. Then we headed on through to the arcade and practiced walking over the Dance, Dance Revolution game for some different surfaces. There was a game that looked like the cab of a truck so we had our puppies jump in a get comfortable for a second to test their "scrunching" skills.... Phoenix was awesome at that... mostly because he's not one of those monster huge labs.

Next, we walked across the bridge close to the edge to let them see down on our way to the grated stairs that are there. Barb asked us to take all the puppies' headcollars off to see how they handled it. Phoenix is pretty much a pro at open stairways because we live in apartments that have open stairs... No big deal.

The last thing we did was show off our layover skills. Pro. Phoenix's favorite thing in the world is to cuddle... and layover=Cuddle time. Example:

He flopped right over on his side and went right to sleep as soon as I reach over and grabbed his leg. Best way to end an eval.

Overall, Barb said he looks good. We're pretty proud of him.