~*Shell*~

If I could go back in time (and for future puppies):

- I wouldn't worry so much about teaching lots of different commands, but building good foundations and teaching my pup how to earn a reward

- I would do a lot of drive building so I had a puppy who would respond well to a trigger and marker words and understood how the 'game' works

- I would do a lot of shaping so my pup could learn how to learn

THIS!

x 2!

X3!!!!! Absolutely what Huski said.

X4 Exactly. Learning how to learn is so important and so is fostering drive. It took months to teach Z that because he'd never learned it as a puppy (I got him at 2.5 years old). I'd be focusing on this before I did anything that even resembled agility or flyball. As someone once told me, there's no point in putting up the scaffolding of a house if it's foundations can't hold it there - it might look more like a house with the scaffolding up but it'll implode without the foundations.

I had the 450D for about 2 years before i upgraded but i knew i wanted to upgrade a long time before that. Funnily enough it was the video on the 5D that sold it to me - i work in TV and have used it to shoot promos several times over the last year

I now really want to add a 7D to my gear just for action shots - but it's something that won't happen for a while!

I'm so sorry to hear this Gayle.

Run free Benson.

Strauss's breeder has just sent me this link - its the same dog only a much clearer better video

Brilliant dog!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

LOVE his waggy tail!!

Awesome

Tug-a-jug:

Lambie:

Stuffing-less fox:

Ninja ball:

Plus a duckie. Those are Zero's favourites.

Omg. Your cat is my cat's doppleganger!

Doppelgänger minus tongue.....

Moo

I love this one Ripley!

I SUCK at b&w but here are a few of mine:

That's terrible! Hope she's feeling brighter soon.

Omg. I put a puppy in a suitcase for a shoot a couple of weekends ago!! Nothing as nice as this though

Awesome shots.

I actually have some questions for you Angelsun! I'll PM them through to you.

Awesome shots everyone

Mow:

Trinity:

Zero

Yuki:

Hahahaha - I'm on holidays in 2 weeks so i plan to get caught up with my photo editing then (among about 5 million other things I need to do). You might have to wait a little longer helen. I have weeks and weeks of 52WFD photos and my 52 weeks of Mow set along with like 2 months worth of project 365 shots. Whoops!

Everyone is going so well though - I'm loving seeing everyone else's shots!

Awwww bless her ptolomy.

That's horrible WA - Zero still has problems with his STE (mostly because I'm lazy and haven't worked on them with him in FOREVER!!) so I won't gie you advice but i hope she gets better soon.

If you want to compete, then yes. Not sure about the mock trial but if you plan on trialling at all, personally I would register the dog on the associate register if it wasn't on the main or limited registers.

I make a calendar for my godmother every year from redbubble of her dogs - she has cut the photos out later on and framed them. They still look good Can't say enough about how good redbubble is with it all.

Zero has this same problem - i had them cleaned out once (and again when he went under general for his back) and now i just keep and eye on them. His are from repeated untreated ear infections before i got him though - his weren't naturally narrow. I've never had an MRI recommended to me for him - i don't know what i would do if it was. I would probably just do it though I'm such a sucker for mr zero and he's already pretty deaf when he has an ear infection now (he gets them because his ear canals are so narrow that they close up when they thicken more because of the infection) so i don't want to make him worse.

Yay!!! I don't know what I'd call that colour. It looks quite similar to the lilac seen in border collies, lappies etc so maybe a lilac with tan points and white? Either way he's gorgeous! Maybe you should just call it "Bruno brown" in his honour?

Congrats Ruth. Rescue puppies are the best :D

I say this ALL the time - Micha would talk like Derek Zoolander. "I'm really really naturally good looking" *blue steel*

Zero is the hansel to Micha's zoolander so after anything he did/said, someone would say "cool story hansel" or "hansel, so hot right now"

For me new pup ,new name,new personality & new memories

This

Yep - this too.

All my animals are named their names because of the way they came to me - Zero for example is named Zero because a) it comes out of my favourite movie and b)the woman who caught him described him as a ghost dog because she would see him stealing vegetables out of her garden from her kitchen window but by the time she could get outside, he would be gone (the woman had 6 foot colourbond fencing with no gaps in it!).

Somehow I think the circumstances behind Zero being named Zero will never be replicated so I will never have another named Zero. I don't think i could name a dog something similar either. There will be no "hero" or "Zorro" at my house

I joined because I had a lot of issues with Zero at the time and I needed somewhere to vent where someone wouldn't tell me my only option was to have him PTS. I was a lurker for a long time before I joined though

Hahahaha - i know the feeling. I went to a friend's wedding a couple of months ago as a guest with a camera (i was definitely not being the photographer, even though i was asked!) after telling them to hire a professional. I got some pretty shots but I look at them, then i look at professional wedding photography and i think, "omg, you have so far to go before you're on that level!"

People are hard! I'd rather photograph dogs! Even the naughty ones are fun!

I really think that the ANKC needs to make themselves bigger and louder. They need to be in the media, they need to have a voice. At the moment they're a special club for dog people that pretty much keeps to themselves. We particularly need an advocate for purebred dogs as a whole.

This. I work in the media and really, it's not that difficult to make some noise. I never hear about anything to do with the ANKC or dogsNSW and was only told about their open day because of the different organisations I'm involved with. I didn't even see a press release about it - really, it'd take someone who was media trained 10 minutes to write one and even less time to email it to a bunch of local newspapers. If they had someone who was media trained on staff, they could even write the article to go in the local papers.

If that role was ever available at dogsNSW, I'd apply for it in a heartbeat.

I like the in-between of the last one. Nice shot kirislin!