Showing posts with label Skylar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skylar. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Rescue Doberman Puppies Are Growing Fast

I wanted to report about our Doberman rescue puppies much more frequently, but alas my life has been too demanding to do so. But here I am today with another post about our little Doberman girls. In the following photos they have been eight to nine weeks old.


Here they are outside in our garden contained in a big X-Pen playing with Skylar, our adult red Doberman Pinscher, who is also a rescue Doberman. Playing for the Doberman puppies meant at this age nipping Skylar everywhere and all the time. From the left to the right right you see Elsa, Princess and Lilly.



For a male Doberman Pinscher Skylar was amazingly patient with them, but often even he had enough and needed some alone time to prevent things from getting out of hand. It is still amazing to me how much energy these little puppies had.



My husband bought stadium seats for us to have a more comfortable way to sit down and spent time with them in the X-Pen. Like everything else they made perfect chewing objects for them.



We got the puppies when they were about four weeks old and even though on these photos they are still very small in comparison to our mature Doberman boy, they had grown tremendously in the four to five weeks that we had them when these photos were taken.



Lilly and Skylar in one of the rare moments of quite when the puppies were awake.



The puppies at that age had still only three modes: Sleeping, playing and eating. Here Lilly crashed on the stadium seat.



They continued to love to huddle together for warmth and emotional comfort.



There was always something to sniff.



Elsa, on the right, sometimes could look pretty feisty already...



...and sometimes like the young, elegant, graceful Doberman lady that she was about to become.



They were so full of life and ready to explore the world. "What's next?" seemed to be a constant expression in their little faces.



Lilly, being curious and playful...



...and moments later giving you the typical, intense, fierce Doberman stare already



Love this profile photo of Lilly with her sister Princess in the background.



Lilly playing between the legs of my husband.



Gorgeous little girl!



The three siblings playing together. Elsa and Lilly are insight the X-Pen and Princess is outside, teasing them to get her.



It was always fun to see them interact, except when they were starting to get to rough with each other which happened sometimes, too.



Princess looking intensely...



...and seconds later is ready to go, which for a puppy means ready to play.



Profile shot of Princess. The two black Dobie girls looked remarkable similar.



In case you wonder, Princess is wearing a puppy harness, because we started to walk the puppies on a leash and a harness is gentler on their bodies than a collar, but also to be able to grab them more easily in case we had to, when they were getting to rough with each other or in trouble in the garden. 



Elsa, happily and proudly playing with a ball.



Isn't she cute?



"Come get me, if you can!"



Even at this age Elsa had still these unusual blue/olive colored eyes.



You got to stop and smell the roses - well, at least start with the leaves.



Always on the hunt.



Elsa aka Yoda: "I can walk myself"!

Hope you enjoyed seeing these photos from our rescue Doberman puppies. If you want to take a look at the two earlier posts that I did about them and read more about their story, please click here and here) They were a heck of a work, but boy, do I miss Elsa and Princess, that got adopted out soon after these photos were taken. As I mentioned previously, we kept Lilly for ourselves and she is growing rapidly into a beautiful Dobie female. It is almost hard to believe now that she was once so little.

Warm regards,

Christina



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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Skylar, the Doberman: The Big Shake

All dogs love to shake their body from time to time, especially when they are wet to get the water out of their coat. Skylar, our red Doberman Pinscher, is no exception. My husband recorded one of his shakes after Skylar had played in the water at the beach. There is a lot going on! Please click on the video to see it in slow motion.




Hope you enjoyed watching the video as much as Skylar seems to enjoy his shake!

Wherever you are I hope that the winter is not too hard on you. Here in Southern California we are having a heat wave caused by Santa Ana winds and temperatures are supposed to rise up to 89 degrees Fahrenheit/32 degrees Celsius today! Really unbelievable even for San Diego!

Christina



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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Skylar's, the rescue Doberman's, first off leash Run

A little while ago we decided that it was time for our beloved rescue Doberman Skylar to have his first off leash run. He has been running free in fenced in dog parks, but never in an open space area. We have Skylar a year this month and we hoped we can trust him by now to stay around and not take off once his leash is unhocked. Skylar is still easily distracted and very flighty in case something scares him and he is not good on recall, so my husband and I were a little concerned about the whole thing. Admittedly especially I was very nervous, but on the other hand we didn't want to deny him to run free any longer.

To ease the situation we called on our trusted dog trainer, Alexandra Gant, and scheduled a session with her to help us at least do the right things from our side and decrease our nervousness just by her calm presence. We decided to go to Fiesta Island here in San Diego, which is a huge recreational area right by a bay at the sea. There is also a big dog park on the island, which is kind of semi fenced in. The dog park is so vast that the dog can get completely out of sight and if it absolutely wants to can go around the fences. So the dog will have the feeling it is truly free, but there is at least some protection given.

Alexandra brought her own rescue dog with her, Arya, her Coydog as she calls her. Arya is a mix between a Coyote and a Husky. Skylar and Arya know each other and get along well and we believed that they will give each other some confidence and hang out with each other and hopefully us, too, and not take off alone or with another dog. So the plan was made and off we went.

If you are holding your breath by now, I can already tell you that things went well. Yes, the dogs went out of sight one or two times but they came back. Altogether Skylar stayed much closer to us than we expected and didn't take advantage of the situation that he could take off.

When we reached the sea level something amazing happened: Our water shy dog went into the water the very first time! It was so lovely to observe these two dogs enjoying their freedom to run and play in the water.



Skylar: "What, are you really going in there?"



Arya: "Yes, not a big deal, it is actually fun!"



Skylar: "Alright, you lead, I will follow."



Arya: "Let's catch the waves!" Skylar: "I do what you do!"



Skylar: "This stuff smells wired".



Skylar: "But all in all the water is not too bad."



Skylar: "Catch me if you can!"



Skylar: "If you don't chase me...



...I will chase you!"



Skylar: "Playing in the water is fun indeed!"



Arya: "I am done with this!"



Skylar: "What, are you tired already?"



Skylar: "Mom, Dad, she doesn't want to play with my anymore. Do you want to play?"



Skylar: "If I really try hard,...



...maybe I get to chase her one more time."



Skylar: "Nope she won't play anymore...



...OK then I play catching the waves by myself."



Two tired happy dogs ready to be leashed up, again.








Two happy dog owners and one of them in addition to being happy also very relieved, that's obviously being me, ready to go home. Phew, for the first time the off leash run went rather great! We will certainly do it again and this time alone.



A big thank you to Alexandra for helping us one more time to make the next step forward in our journey with Skylar and to support him to be a happy, confident and well-behaved dog.

Wishing everyone lovely, calm last days of in the old year!

Christina



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