Zane, Holly and Ryan with Kobi

The Edward's dropped in for breakfast this morning and they got to meet Kobi. He did real well, and when things got a bit much he just retired into his crate. He was real good with Zane and shared his toys eagerly. Once everyone left Kobi has spent the day sleeping in the crate, should be interesting when he wakes up.

Notes On Kobi

On Tuesday night Kobi started dog obedience school and we learned just how long his attention span was. The nights training was very basic. We worked on socialization, learning the command and reward sequence, and three important commands. Our new pup was great! He actually was one of the best behaved dogs in the class and people were noticing! One guy, the owner of a pug puppy, came over and told us how great our dog was. We were feeling pretty good and then the clock hit 7:45. At exactly 45 minutes in to the session, Kobi became board with everything and he went nuts. He didn't want to be on lead any longer, he didn't want to sit next to us, all he wanted to do was play. For the next fifteen minutes, we spent our time going out side, and holding Kobi so that he wouldn't disturb the rest of the class.

It's A Boy! We Gotta Get Our Heads Into Puppies.

Kobi is our new Golden Retriever, he is 16 weeks old and has a very mellow personality, so far. We have been looking for another dog for about three months and Kobi comes to us via the breeder located at Loon Lake. As we explained previously, we visited the Loon Lake area about three weeks ago. There was a litter of pups that we looked at and from that litter, we had two picked out. Kobi was not one of them. In fact we did not even look at him when we were up there. The breeder raises and trains assist dogs and Kobi was set aside to become an assist dog. I am not real clear why the breeder decided not to train him, but when Linda talked to her last week, she said she had another pup available and that she would be in our area with the two pups. Our original choice had been sold so she brought us Kobi and the pup I had chose from the litter when we were up there. Now Kobi was 16 weeks old and the other one was 9 weeks old and we were able to make a comparison and hear what the breeder had observed about each dogs personality. From that we chose Kobi.

From what the breeder had observed, she said Kobi was not the alfa male between the two dogs. The pup was much more aggressive in its play and Kobi usually let the pup have its way. Now she also said the Kobi was not a sissy, but just had a bit mellower personality. We watched the two for quite some time and noticed that Kobi was a very smart and playful pup, but did not roam as much as the other. In fact Kobi would check back all the time. We like that trait.

Kobi had been home now for about 24 hours. Here is what has occurred. When we crated him up last night for bed, he yipped and barked for 10 minutes and the quieted down for the rest of the night. We fenced him into the kitchen when we went to the store today and he got into the rest of the house. Guess we need to figure out a better method for corralling him when we leave. When Kobi gets tired he will go into the crate and sleep. Did you know puppies sleep about 18 hours a day? We are so new at this puppy thing that we have book marked a web site that tells us about taking care of puppies. We worried about him sleeping all the time and the fact that he hadn't pooped since we got him. That worry is over. This afternoon he pooped, and he pooped big time! He must have been holding it for about 24 hours. Oh the worries of the new parents. I have been a bit surprised how much I had forgotten about being a parent to a puppie. My mind is still thinking big dog and this is certainly not a big dog!