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Zastava is kind of puzzling me. She eats a cup more food than Katyusha does every day. I don’t often see her ribs, i can feel them if I press my hands in pretty good, but when I see her belly area, I think "you need a sandwich." Maybe it's just her build? She looking okay to you all? She isn't...

My Toby crossed the bridge yesterday with help from his vet. For what it was, he couldn't have passed more peacefully. He started out as my daughter's dog, but came to live with me early in his life. He went blind in 2020, after his optic nerve inflamed and stopped working. I never did train...

A long time ago someone mentioned working Katyusha as an airport therapy dog and the conversation turned to someone (maybe @remy ?) imagining Katyusha wearing like a biplane pilot's gear. While I have mixed feelings about AI, I did remember that and asked chatGPT to make that as an oil painting...

6 months ago, someone asked me if I planned to show Zastava. My answer was kind of a hard nope. I understood, at the time, why people do show their dogs, and that the work that training for, and then trying to execute a goal together is a way to form a wonderful bond with your dog, but it just...

Since last Friday, Zastava became, restless, maybe is the word? She was just standing all day in the dining room, if she wasn't pacing around (she is usually on the couch, resting with, or barking at squirrels with, Katyusha). Had been noticing some swelling, too. So I knew something was up...

Just want to give a birthday shout out for my Katyusha! 4 years ago tonight I was in the operating room when she came into the world via emergency C-section. My job was to dry the puppies. Here is the basket of puppies I can't say for sure which one she was from this photo but I think she was...

Found out the hard way last week that there is VWd in Katyusha's family. Her sister had a mass removed then almost bled out by 2:30 the next morning. A couple blood transfusions later and Karen is out of the woods finally. So, Katyusha had a blood draw yesterday to test for it so we should...

Katyusha will turn 4 soon, and for the last two weeks, very occasionally (I have heard this twice now), she has been going into a full-on wolf howl! I was able to catch the one time on security cam, and I mean it is nose pointed straight up in the air, bellowing howling, like one would expect...

The two Dobergirls have always made good playmates. There are times when Zastava wants to play more hours of the day than Katyusha does, and Katyusha corrects Zastava for this, earning praise from me for standing up for her own interests. Very seldom, if ever, have I seen them share the couch...

Came to a place where I had to combine the goals for each Dobergirl into one thread. Katyusha will test for CGCA on the 24th of August. I don't have a date for Zastava testing for CGC yet, but I hope to have her tested before her 7th month is gone. I solicited some help so the girls couldn't...

Sometimes I have to give myself deadlines or I just procrastinate. So I reached out to our evaluator asking for a CGC evaluation for Zastava in the last half of August. That's all I am reaching for with her in 2024, just CGC (I can't let the dobergirls divide and conquer me LOL). So. Better...

I have been considering Halo collars for Katyusha and Z-pup, when she is old enough. They seem really slick, you can make a gps fence anywhere you go for your dog. Go camping? You can make fence lines at your campsite. They're expensive, $600 and a subscription at $10 ish per month. But I...

bought some clove essential oil with the intent of "painting" a centerline on the wood back steps to hopefully help Toby with not walking off the edges of the stairs. It's not like he has a huge problem with walking off the edges, maybe only once a month, but if a clove essential oil might be...

I wanted to get back to the hint I dropped in anther thread a while back and some of you called me out on it :rofl: and we ended up jacking the thread. Back then there were enough uncertainties to just say "probably". A lot has gelled since then. Now I can say it out loud. My red Euro girl...

Well, as stated in another post, our goals this year are CGCA (I think also now known as AKC community dog) and THD. I didn't take any pics but we were at the university this evening and she is really finding her groove with the students in the therapy dog events there. She knew where we were...

It has been suggested that Katyusha and I make a thread to share our journey and experiences gained as we work towards becoming a therapy dog team. Here we go and we apologize if some of you are picking up mid-story. We had to pass a test to determine that she has the demeanor to help give...

I knew when I got my first Doberman, I wanted her to become a "take anywhere" dog. A dog who can just jump right in on any activity and go with it. We made another level of that yesterday together. We kayaked 8 miles of river. Nothing extreme at all but some water was fast enough that she...

Katyusha and squid both earned CGC today!:paw::paw::paw::party::pullhair::yatta:really very proud of these littermate sisters!