Mastering the steps was a real challenge... I refused to help.... yelping and yippin' and baby barking --- and FINALLY she moved the back legs. After a couple times now she runs up them. LOL







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That place looks like the perfect dog house, Stella has all kinds of comfy lounging options in that room. :thumbsup:

Dawg- 'I don't do steps...not sure this new guy is gonna work out!'

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No pets here yet... but we're lookin for a family pup (just started). just filled out an app for the local puppy rescue place. Lookin for a Boxer or Boxer mix. :)

Good choice of breeds Albert. :thumbsup:

Love it when people start looking at rescues for a dog. There are so many best friends just waiting to go home with someone :thumbsup:

She's cute... That is going to be one spoiled ass dog. I don't have much room to talk, I have 9 year old female that thinks she owns the joint.

Thinks she owns the joint? Fess up. :D

Shelby(not after a Ford) Mine just plays Lassie twice a day. The difference being, she's leading me to her food dish. She seems to have a problem with the walking farts. Especially when you are following her. I tried to coerce her to move out by letting her out the front door but she just sits there patienty waiting for me to let her back in. She's no dummy. Now, if we leave her in the back yard on a 70 degree day with grass, a pool, and dogs in the neighborhood to bark at, when we get home, it sounds like their is a massacre in the back yard. That would be her whimpering and screeching from the punishment of being outside all day. She gets a treat pretty much every night from the other half. She will walk into the shower all by herself but she will make you feel guilty about it. We had a party and there was a meat and cracker tray on the coffee table. She decided to join in on the festivities and help herself. When I was a drunk, she would butter me up by sitting there an giving me that look, she almost always ended up with something I was eating.

She's been a great dog. Little to smelly and needy, but you can't have it all. :D
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Nice looking doggers. :thumbsup:

Our first lab (19 years ago) when left in the backyard while we went to work or elsewhere was a basket case when we came home. We started kenneling him, then just gave him run of the house and no anxiety problems. I'm convinced that when left outside he wasn't sure if we were coming back.

A kennel for 8 hours isn't an issue since they really don't have a sense of time other than sunrise and sunset and they are den animals by nature. The key with kenneling is never punish them by kenneling, that's their safe house.