Puppy Camp-Judy!

Puppy camp has finally arrived! Just this past weekend all of us raisers swapped dogs. The reason? To get the dogs exposed to working with someone new, for them to experience and go places that they haven't been, and to also help us as raisers to work with different dogs personalities. The dogs will be swapped for 2 weeks, then we will switch back. For the next two weeks I get the adorable Judy!

Today was Judy's second day of college. So far she has been doing great and sleeps right through all my classes! The only embarrassing, but cute, thing that she does is makes this moan/sigh/groan type of noise when she is sleeping, and everyone looks at me like I'm the one that made it. So she definitely keeps class interesting. Personality wise I would say that her and Baity are opposites. Baity is completely lazy at home, but has more energy when he goes places. Where Judy is energetic at home, and calm in coat (which is exactly what you want). She definitely is very obedient and does great whenever I take her out. I've had to explain to quite a bit of people why I have a black dog instead of a yellow one. I even had someone jokingly tell me that I should probably wash Baity.
Judy is definitely doing great in college, and seems to be really enjoying it!

Little Beach Bum

For Spring break our family decided to take a last minute trip to the beach. We were really excited for Baity to experience the beach for the first time, since he going to get to spend lots of time there during the summer.

The ride to the beach, which took about 4 hrs, he did nothing but sleep and enjoy the cold air conditioning blowing on his face. If you want Baity to go right to sleep, we found that the trick is air condition!

We stopped at a farm about 2 hours into the trip to take a "busy" and dinner break. We ended up running into a lady who had her 8wk old black lab puppy with her! I couldn't believe how tiny he was compared to Baity... only six weeks earlier he had been that small! I was able to share with her what little experience I had in house training and encouragement that her puppy will pick up house breaking eventually and you just have to keep at it!

The next morning we took Baity to the ocean. Baity barely noticed the difference in the texture of the sand and walked straight to the waters edge. He sat there for a minute observing the scene before him and then quickly realized how much fun the little waves could be. We even went for a little run down the beach and he loved every minute of it! The rest of the time he just sat in the sand with me observing people playing ball, strange seagulls and loud waves. The trip to the beach was definitely a success, and looks like it may be one of Baity's favorite places to go!

Checking out the ocean

 Watching the people play catch

 Happily observing 

Until the Next adventure...