Born August 23, 2008 Click here to view a collections
of Eve's photos
click here to see information on our
current litter from Eve to Louhke
July 28-Aug
2, 2010 FCRSA Regionals -
Reserve Winners Bitch
under UK Judge
Mrs. Vivienne Bowen & FCRSC Nationals
2nd Place in Open Female Class
under Scottish Judge Mr.James Irvine
.Judges
comment: not quite the height to length ratio of 1st. Balanced head with
a dark enough eye. Mature in body, very good compact tight feet.
Covered the ground well.
In the
AKC Flat Coat Booster under Am. Judge Dr.
Ronald Spritzer she took Winners Bitch
and Best of Opposite Sex
to complete her Championship.Eve also completed her Rally Novice
and Working Certificate Titles
June 26-28,
2010 Nicola Valley Kennel Club show. Eve took 1
Best of Winners
and
from class 3 Best of Breed
and a Group 2
April
2,3,4,5, 2010 Renaissance Dog Association show. Eve was
Reserve Winners
Bitch 2 of the 3 days and Best of
Winners and
Best of Opposite Sex
on day 4 under Finnish
judge Ms. Heikkenen Lehkonen.
Oct 29 & 30, 2009. Around the World Conformation show at the Trade X in Abbotsford. Eve
received a Reserve Winners.
June 2009 FCRSC National Specialty
in Nanaimo placed 3rd
in Senior Puppy Group
- Judge Glenys Gwilliam's comments: nice femine workmanlike bitch, good
forechest, nice ribcage, good turn of stifle, moved well.
Also Placed 2nd
in both the Nanaimo Kennel
Club Booster and FCRSC Puppy (9-12 mo) Sweeps - Judge Paddy Engen's
comments: Lovely profile, a very happy, cute girl.
April 10, 2009 Renaissance
Dog Association Conformation show in Chilliwack, B.C. Eve placed
2nd in the puppy 6-9 month
March 27, 2009 Eve competed in her very first
conformation show and took Best of Winners
AAC Standings to Date
2Steeplechase Q
Agility Dog of Canada Title
Starters Gamblers - completed
Starters Snooker - completed
Starters Jumpers - completed
2 Advanced Standard Q
2 Advanced Gamblers Q
1 Advanced Snooker Q
CERF FR-2616/2011-- clear, Gonioscopy - very mildly affected (OK for
breeding to similarly affected or clear dogs) OFA: Hips - Good
Patellas & Elbows - Normal
I have moved the puppy information over to their own page
click here for new page.
September 2011 Eve has competed
in a couple of agility trials and is doing great. She spent a
week swimming at green Lake and has finally started to get her muscles
back. She is now competing in Advanced in all events and only
needs one more Adv. Standard and one more Adv Gamblers. We still
need to work on our handling but her enthusiasm is fantastic.
August 23, 2011 Eve turns 3
today. Wow how time flys. She has been everything I wanted
in a flat coat and she is just beginning to blossom. She
will be off do agility for the next little while. Time to have
some fun again now that the puppies are gone. Except of course
Miss Red now known as Autumn.
Eve 3 years old and Autumn 10 weeks old.
August 4, 2011 Eve has been a
super mom. I started weaning the pups at about 4 1/2 weeks.
Let Eve feed last thing at night for about a week then stopped all
feeding. In order to let her have access to her pups and still
work on drying her up, I put a T-shirt on her to cover up her teats.
She has dried up nicely and the pups are on total raw. I'm still
leaving the T-shirt on as the puppies try to suckle every time
anything is showing. Eve plays nicely with her puppies. I
hear that she may loose her coat but as of today her coat is great.
She is in really good shape. We did a bit of agility training
today. She really wants to be doing stuff.
July 1, 2011 Eve is still having
a bit of diarhea so I have her on brown rice and pumpkin for today.
June 15, 2011
Eve had her puppies. She started nesting early in the morning
and throughout the day was showing signs that the time was coming
close. At 9:01, she gave birth to the first baby girl, and by
10:14 she had given birth to 5 puppies 4 girls and 2 boys. She
took a break and at 11:13 she gave birth to another two puppies
finishing at 11:40 pm. Final total is 3 blk girls, 2 liver
girls, 2 black boys. 2 of the puppies are very tiny. The
liver girl was a surprise as we didn't even know she had been born and
she didn't have a sack or a placenta attached. She was just
kinda flaying around. But she was breathing and went to feed
right away. She weighed only 8 oz. The other small blk
girl was almost similiar in I just happened to notice these feet
sticking up. Her sack and placenta had burst and she was had a
bit of fluid in her mouth, but that came out quickly on its own and
she started feeding immediately also. She weighed 10 oz.
The other puppies weighed 1 lb 1 oz, 1 lb 2 oz, 1 lb, 14 oz and 1 lb
4 oz.. Eve took care of all the puppies by cleaning them and
cutting the cord herself. I let her eat the first placenta then
discarded the rest of them. Early the next morning it looked
like she expelled the missing placenta. I couldn't get a good
look as she ate it so fast. All the puppies started feeding
quickly. I will have to make sure I give a little extra hand to
the two small girls as the bigger ones know how to push their way in
and won't move. Eve is being a fabulous mom. She is eating
and drinking lots of broth.
Birthday
- June 15, 2011
Feeding
Frenzy
Day 1 -
Everyone Happy
Comparison of the sm
blk & Liver to other pups
June 13, 2011 So I gave in and
let her have access to my bed again. Silly me. She is
hungry all the time, she had been given a bit of kibble at 10 pm and
she woke me up at 1:30 for some food and again at 4:00. So
I gave her a handful of kibble each time and went back to bed.
There's no ignoring her either because when she wants fed she sits on
you (and she's very heavy right now) then starts to nudge you with her
nose and if that isn't getting you up she starts to lick your face.
Tonight, she will be penned in the whelping area with no access to my
bed or to the outside. Don't want her going outside and having
puppies in the dog run.
June 11, 2011 Eve is 58 days
pregnant and is really looking big now. She's starting to feel a
little uncomfortable at times. I have set up the whelping area
and also a bed for me so I can be close to her and her puppies.
I have started to sleep downstairs with her so she can get used to
being in or near the whelping box. Funny thing though, she would
much rather take up 3/4 of my bed and she can't be moved. So I
have now put a pen between us so I can get some sleep at night.
June 2, 2011 Eve is 49 days
pregnant and I took her in to be weighed today. She weighs
approx 62 - 64 lbs. (the scale kept changing). She's still
wanting to play and run a bit. Tires easily though.
May 22, 2011
Eve at 35 days pregnant playing bitey face with Forrest while at the
AAC Regionals.
May 15, 2011 - Eve weighs 55 lbs today
and is starting to loose her nice slim figure.
May 12, 2011 Pregnancy has been
confirmed via ultrasound. Although you cannot tell the number of
puppies through ultrasound, at one point we were able to see 5 sacks
at one time, so there is at least five. Vet felt she was at day
25-27. I had counted day 28. So day 63 can be anywhere
between June 16-18th.
Eve's ultrasound pics taken with my cell
phone. 1 showing 1 sack, the other one showing two.
Didn't think about pictures when we saw the five sacks.
April 17, 2011 Eve and I are in
Port Alberni. We have had 3 successful breedings between Eve
and Louhke. If all has gone well we should be having puppies
around June 16.
April 2, 2011 Eve has come into
season a lot sooner than I expected. She certainly has a mind of
her own. We will be attending the Renaissance dog show in
Chilliwack this week-end. Should prove interesting with both her
and Forrest in the trailer together. I am considering staying
down on the coast once the show is over and do my progesterone testing
etc down there. Louhke, the male I will be using for this
breeding. lives over on the island so it will save me some travelling
time and costs. I had just entered her in the AAC Regionals
taking place the May long week-end at the coast, so I will have to
pull her now as hopefully she will be pregnant.
March 12, 2011 Eve
finished her Agility Dog Of Canada title at the Top Dog agility trial
in Prince George. She is running great.
Mar 3, 2011 Eve had her
recheck of her eye and it was determined that she had something in her
left eye. I decided to go with the laser surgery rather than
wait and see. Because it was removed using laser, it was not
biopsied so we will not know if it was benign or not. She
will be rechecked by Dr. Keller at the end of March. I confirmed
with Dr. Keller that this is not hereditary and she feels that it
should no longer be a problem.
Feb 16, 2011 In preparation of our
breeding of Eve, we had Teddy's sperm checked and unfortunately he is no longer
viable. Strickly due to his age - 11. So after some further
researching an agreement has been made to use CH Glainddu's Third Time Lucky "Louhke".
Louhke was 2 Dec 9 and has his CH and WC and 1 leg towards his JH. His
pedigree is from some very old English dogs. I am very excited about this
breeding and being able to bring these great English dogs into our lines.
Feb 13. 2011
We attended the Leaps and Bounds agility trial down at the coast. I was
judging so we didn't get to run very much. Friday night we ran 2
steeplechase and Eve actually Qualified and placed 4th in one of them.
Saturday she Q'd in Advanced Gamblers. I was hoping to get her final
Starters Standard, but it wasn't meant to be.
Feb 11, 2011 Eve had
her yearly CERF exam today with Dr. Keller in New Westminster.
Her CERF is clear. But upon examination, she discovered what she
thought was an iris melanoma in her left eye. Because Eve's
pupils where dilated for her exam we would have to return for another
appointment to have it rechecked and possibly have laser surgery to
remove it.
Dec 2, 2010 Took Eve to Williams Lake
today for an ultra sound. Unfortunately she is not pregnant this time.
We will re-do this breeding on her next season. Will do an Artificial
Insemination possibly with a natural. One good thing about our vet visit
is that Eve had no problem with this vet office. So I will have to se this
one more often.
Nov 18, 2010 Eve's tests came back
negative. The vet said we did the test too early (apparently the office
staff did not notify him we were doing the test) So we re-did the test on
the 17th. Hopefully will have results by saturday. Hoping there are
no further problems. After doing some further research, I have discovered
that this test isn't as easy as it sounds. The timing has to be perfect.
Nov 13, 2010 Did pregnancy test.
Decided to go with the blood test vs ultrasound as Eve is terrified of the Vets
office and I don't want to stress her. So I had them come to the car and
take the blood. The test was taken on the 9th and we were supposed
to have the results by Friday, but the vets screwed up and had to send the
sample off to a different lab. Hopefully will know if she is pregnant or
not in a few days. She is certainly acting like she is. She is very
clingy and a bit moody. Her appetite has really increased, but that could
be just because she's a retriever. I'm starting to restrict her walks to
on leash only. She's not very happy about that.
Oct 17, 2010Eve has been bred to Teddy.
She was bred from the 13th to the 17th. Now we wait and see.
Oct 3, 2010 Eve has gone into season and we
have decided to breed her to "Teddy". check out our
breeding info page for more details.
Oct 2, 2010 Finally got around to putting
Eve's ribbons on her wall. Not bad for a 2 year old. I think I'm
going to run out of wall space before we're finished.
Sept 28, 2010
Been working on getting Eve to put all four legs inside a box. It took her
two 15 minute sessions to figure if out. I then changed the box for a
slightly smaller one and she did that but when I tried a smaller box she just
put her back legs in and looked at me like - you got to be kidding. We
also did some heal work and getting her to stand while I walk around her.
She's moving at least one foot. I'm sure we will get it soon.
Sept 18, 2010 Eve had an appointment at
Newton's Animal Hospital today to have her OFA X-rays. She really hates
going into the vets but we managed to get through it.
Aug 28 & 29, 2010 Eve competed in our (Cariboo
Agility Team) agility trial this week-end. She didn't have much attention
as I was the trial scorekeeper, trial secretary and also it was my judging
debut. So when she get out of her crate, she was full of it. I
couldn't believe how fast she ran. I had a little chat with her and
explained to her that she is not a border collie. We didn't get any Q's,
but boy it was fun.
July 28 - Aug 2, 2010 - FCRSA Regionals & FCRSC
Nationals in Calgary. WOW, what a week. Eve was just awesome.
Wednesday at the FCRSA conformation Regional show she placed 2nd in Open
Female and then went on to take Reserve Winners Female under UK Judge Mrs.
Vivienne Bowen. Thursday Eve competed in Rally. In the morning
she was in FCRSA rally novice and got a score of 97 then in the afternoon she
competed in the FCRSC Rally novice with a score of 98 and 1st place.
Friday in the FCRSC National conformation she placed 2nd place in Open
Females. Saturday we competed in the Alberta Kennel Club's flat coat booster
all breed conformation show and took our Open Female class and Winners Female then went on
to take Best of Opposite for 4 points under Judge Dr,. Ronald Spritzer. This
completed our Championship title. As soon as we finished in the conformation ring
I gave Terry all our ribbons, prizes and Eve and ran over to the Rally ring.
fortunately I made it before they finished the walk through. Eve came in
4th out of 35 dogs in Rally Novice to get her RN title. and top Flat coat prize.
Sunday we were off to the field work. The test included two
different birds. The first mark was a pheasant and the 2nd mark was a
duck. Eve had no problem with the pheasant even though we had never seen
one before. She had a bit of a problem with the duck. She went
straight to the mark, but because it was a different bird she didn't want to
bring me that one so she kept looking for a pheasant. She finally brought
the duck and we completed the land marks. Her water was great. No
problems at all. Did both the marks without hesitation. She really
loves her water. She passed her WC test. The next day we had
signed up for a WC test with the GRCAB so I decided to move her up to WCI and
give it a try even though we have not trained for this level. Eve was
great. She did the double, not in the correct sequence, but she did it.
She did the honour nicely until the other dog went for the retrieve then Eve
couldn't hold off any longer - she broke, but I was able to stop her and call
her back to me. So we failed this one. But I was very happy with her
work. I think she will be able to do a WCI with a little training.
Because of her placings in the conformation and her Rally and novice passes Eve
also earned her Beauty and Brains Ribbon.
July 10 & 11, 2010 Attended
the Clear Sailing Agility Trial in Quesnel. Eve got her final starters
gamblers Q and her first starters jumpers Q. She ran her very first
steeplechase and finished overtime by 1.06 seconds. She also entered her
first CARO Rally trial. She was doing really good until she stopped and
pee'd in the ring.
June 26-28, 2010 Eve was entered in the Nicola
Valley Kennel Club conformation shows in Merritt, B.C. She had a fabulous
week-end. She took 1 Best of Winners, 3 Best of Breeds and 1 Group 2.
She's really starting to show great. She has some great movement.
June 4,5,6, 2010 Attended
an AAC Agility Trial in Kamloops. Eve qualified in 1 Starters Standard and
2 Starter Gambler runs. She ran great. Had a small problem with her
jumpers course when she decided to go after her treat bag that was outside the
ring. After that I decided to only bring out her tug and will go back to
our tenting area for her treats. This worked really well.
Here are a couple of videos of her gamblers.
April 2,3,4,5, 2010 Eve was Reserve Winners Bitch
2 of the 3 days and BOW and BOS on day 4 under Finnish judge Ms. Heikkenen
Lehkonen. Her litter sister Sia was BOW and BOS 2 of the 3 days and on the
3rd day she was WB.
March 6, 2010 Eve was entered in her very first
AAC Sanctioned Agility trial hosted by Top Dog in Prince George, B.C. She
was entered in 2 jumpers, 2 standard, 1 snooker, 2 gamblers. I was a
little concerned that she wouldn't be into it since she had just come out of
season and she wasn't quite herself. She was awesome. She qualified
in her first standard and her snooker. She should have qualified in her
gamblers, she had lots of points and completed the gamble, but I stepped over
the gamble line. Bad Handler. Her second standard run, she was a bit
distracted and went off to visit some of the ring crew. Her last run of
the trial was a jumpers and she ran it beautifully, really fast. She was
right on. I called her to me after a jump and I was late in giving her the
tunnel command and she ran to me instead, so we got 5 faults. Her time was
great. SCT was 40 seconds and she completed it in 26.97 seconds. She
behaved herself very well in between runs and being left in her x-pen by herself
while I ran Cynder.
Here are a couple of links to her first
jumpers
and her first Standard.
Unfortunately my video camera's battery died and I wasn't able to get any more
video.
Eve's first agility ribbons - 22 Regular - 1st place in Starters
Standard and Starters Snooker
January 22, 2010 Eve has gone back into season.
I was expecting it a bit earlier than this but this works out better for our
trialing/showing this year. We did a bit of hunt practice a week ago and
Eve did pretty darn good. She did some great pile work. Had no
problem with some long retrieves.
Oct 29 & 30, 2009. Attended
the Around the World Conformation show at the Trade X in Abbotsford. Eve
received Reserve Winners Female on Thursday and a 3rd on Friday. It was a
great opportunity for me to learn more about dog shows. Here
is a clip from Thursdays yearling sweepstakes.
Oct 5, 2009Yesterday we finally got a chance to
do some hunt practice. Haven't done any in months. Eve was pretty
darn good. She even did her very first water double. We have not
practiced doubles at all so it was great to see her do one. We have been
working on more agility and have introduced the weave poles about a month ago
and have been working with channel weaves. As of today I have them set
about 1 1/2" apart. I plan on introducing the 2 X 2 method to her shortly
- to work on her entries. But I wanted to get her weaves going before the
snow comes. After our practice the girls and I went for a walk around one
of the lakes here.
August 3, 2009Eve weighs 49lbs and
is approx 22 inches tall. We have begun our agility training and she is
doing great. She is doing the full height teeter - was trained using the
two table method, does the table with a nice down, jumping 16", has done the
chute and tunnels. We have been working on the dogwalk and I have been
undecided on whether to do a running contact or a 2 on 2 off. I have tried
both and although she did jump off once with the running, I have decided to go
with this. When I tried her with the 2 on 2 off I noticed her really
slowing down. So I have put some hoops at the end of the dogwalk to help
her keep her dead down and hit the contact. I am also going to do a
running on the A-Frame. I am hoping to start her on the weaves sometime
this month. The weather has been extremely hot so we only get to work for
about 20 minutes in the morning.
Went for a hunt practice on Saturday. She did some nice
retrieves. We really need to do some more land work. She marks well,
but if she looses sight of it she doesn't seem to really know to keep looking.
Her water work is very nice. She got a little distracted with a weed and a
stick along route, but still managed to get herself turned around and go to the
bumper. She had an opportunity to bank run, but she came back to me in the
water.
June 2009 Back from the FCRSC Specialty in
Nanaimo. It was a a very long trip but all 3 dogs travelled very well.
Eve showed nicely, even though she spent most of her time in a crate to keep her
away from the boys. On Friday she placed 2nd in the Nanaimo Kennel Club
Booster and 2nd in the FCRSC Puppy (9-12 mo) Sweeps. Both times behind her
littermate Sia. On Saturday she placed 3rd in the Senior puppy group.
Her littermates Sia and Coda placed 1st and 2nd. They both look much more
mature than Eve. And poor Eve had a very inexperienced handler - me.
Sia, Coda, Eve
We competed in the PRHRC WC test on Sunday and the FCRSC on
Monday. In Saturday's test Eve took off like a little bullet
straight to the bird and proceeded to roll on it for a few minutes. I was
finally able to get her off the bird and back to me. (without bird).
We were able to get a bird for practicing that evening and she was great.
She didn't roll on the bird once. She brought it back to my hand every
time. I had hope for the next days trial. Monday I had to run
between two different areas (I was also running Cynder in WCI) and when I got to
line I noticed I didn't have my whistles. The Judge said we could use
words.. When released, Eve ran straight out to the bird and rolled on it
again but this time she only did it for a few moments then stopped and picked up
the bird and brought it back to me. Whew...one down, one to go. I
sent her to the next mark and again she ran out with lots of enthusiasm, but for
some reason couldn't seem to find the bird. She stopped for a pee (she had
just went before the test) and then went over to the gunner. When she
looked like she was over the bird I called her back in, but she didn't have the
bird. I took her back out to where I thought the bird was, and it wasn't
there. It was a bit farther than I thought. So I'm not sure if it
was me calling her in or if she just didn't find the bird that caused her to
come without the bird. We have since been to the fields and the
water and practiced with birds with no problems. I think some of the
problem may have been her being in heat and having been crated for so long. I
had to be careful where I walked her and wasn't allowed to let her off leash so
she had lots of energy to burn.
June 17, 2009 Getting ready
for our trip to Nanaimo. Three of the female
littermates are entered along with 2 of the males. One of her littermates
is just coming out of heat and the other one has just gone into heat. They
are all entered in the shows. Eve has blown her coat, and it was just
coming in nicely.
June 9, 2009 Eve has gone into heat - a week
before we head off to the Flat Coated Retrievers National Specialty in Nanaimo.
This should make for some interesting showing. She is entered in 3
conformation shows and 2 WC test.
June 4, 2009 Eve and Cynder have been
practicing and swimming in lakes for 5 days in a row. Eve's swimming has
become much stronger and she is now bringing the bumper back to me. If she
drops it before she gets to me I just wait her out and she will pick it up and
come to my side. Of course she wants it to be thrown again. She
really loves the water. Cynder is a bit jealous and keeps a very close eye
when I work with Eve.
May 10, 2009 We did some water and land
retrieves today. Eve is coming along great.
Click here
to see her 3rd water retrieve of the day
Click here to see her 4th water
retrieve of the day
May 8, 2009 We did some practicing earlier
in the week and one of the bumpers had been thrown about the same distance but
she lost it amongst all the splashing and turned around and looked like she was
going to come back. I actually started to think I would have to go in
after her, but she got sight of the bumper again and continued to get it and
bring it back. You can see some of the pictures on our flickr page.
April 20, 2009 Eve finally got to go to a pond
that she could actually swim in. We did some water retrieves and the first
time to the water, she dove right in. I was really surprised. I
thought she might of scared herself, but she went straight for the bumper and
brought it back to land. Didn't retrieve to my hand though, she was too
interested in getting back in the water for the next retriever. She is
quite amusing to watch swim because she does the puppy dog paddle with lots of
splashing going on. We also did some land retrieves and she did pretty
good except the first time she found some cooked chicken skin in the field.
She then became a bit distracted for the next retrieve so I put her away and ran
Cynder for a bit. When I brought her back out, she ran the retrieves real
nice.
April 10, 2009 Anna took and showed Eve to
the Renaissance Dog Association Conformation show in Chilliwack, B.C. Eve
placed 2nd in the puppy 6-9 month. This is the first time she has been
away from me and first time in the ring with someone else. Good job
Eve and Anna.
March 30, 2009 Eve and I
attended a Susan Garrett Puppy seminar. Eve did all her practices
really well. Did some "its yer choice" , Crate and drive games and lots of
tugging including on a table. So much for the both of us to work on.
March 27, 2009 Eve competed in her very first
conformation show and took BEST OF WINNERS
for her first point under Judge Terry Carter. We attended both Thur
& Friday and she was a real little trooper.
Anna making Eve all purdy.
March 22, 2009 Went to the school yard and
practiced our conformation with Judy today. We have our first conformation
show in 4 days. You can view our conformation practice on you tube by
clicking here. After lunch and a nap we went outside to practice some
retrieves in our driveway. The snow is finally starting to melt but there
is still too much in the fields to practice.
Click here to view our
retrieve practice on you tube. I did some practice with Cynder after Eve
and Cynder was being a little brat. Next time I'll have to take
Cynder out first.
March 15, 2009 Eve weighs 44 lbs. We have
been working on Eve letting me hold her chin so that I can eventually move her
feet to place them when she is stacking. Well, I found out pretty quick
that she doesn't like to be held in place for any period of time. She
fought me every time I tried to hold her chin. So I figured it would
be best if we go back a few steps and clicker train her to put her chin into my
hand. This was much more effective. So now I can just hold my hand
out at her chin level and she will gladly put her chin in it. Boy, some
little girl likes to do things her way..... I can put a bit of pressure on it
and even turn her head slightly to get her to pick up her left paw. So we
are making progress.
I have tried to give her some freedom when we are not at home
by putting her with the other dogs and cat in the basement but she is starting
to get very destructive and has chewed up a few things so I think we will go
back to the crate for another few month. At night I am letting her have
access to the kitchen and living room and most of the time she is OK but I think
the crate is coming back for this also. She's just not ready for the big
dog stuff yet.
We were supposed to go into a conformation fun match this
week-end so we would have an opportunity to practice before her first CKC
conformation show Mar 26 & 27th. Oh well, I guess we'll both be
going in green.
Feb 23, 2009 Eve is now 6 months old. Wow
how time flies. She is a very smart little girl. Loves to learn new
things. She weighs 42 lbs.
Eve at 6 months of age - looking very
grown up
Here is a list of things she can do so far:
- is learning the difference between her show
lead and her obedience lead.
-"shows" by going a bit ahead of me and looking
forward with a real nice pace.
- has a stand but still needs to work on back
feet.
- heals next to me on and off lead and sits when
I stop.
- backs up on "beeb" about 20 feet and can catch
the toy I throw at her.
- can sit and down on command and stay for
both. We are working on me going behind her while she holds her sit or
down.
- can "fetch up" up to about 40 - 50 feet and
bring the bumper/bird back to me. Sometimes to hand.
- will go to side and sit and wait to be
released to the bumper.
- shake a paw
- do a 10" jump on command
- do a tunnel on command
- perform a low teeter.
- perform a full height dog walk and do her
contact at the end (she did this all by herself)
- go into a crate when told and will not come
out until released - even with the door open.
- has a very intense stare into your eyes when
you ask her to watch.
- Leave it.
- comes when I call "here"
- sits and comes on a whistle
February 15, 2009 Eve is doing great. She
didn't seem to have any effects from her little mishap. We took the dogs
for a 1 1/2 hours walk on the frozen lake.
This is as close as the dogs are going to get to water for a few
more months.
February 13, 2009 Eve was a bad little girl
today. The cat apparently got a hold of a prescription of Celebrex which I
had just had filled today. (Normally all meds are kept in a medicine cabinet but
I left them at the back of the counter out of reach of the dogs, so my husband
would see that I filled it) The cat must of pushed it from the back of the
bathroom counter to the floor. Eve got the container and took
it to the living room where she preceded to eat 16 - 17 of them. She was
still in the middle of eating them when we discovered what was going on.
You can imagine the panic. Unfortunately I didn't have anything on hand to
induce vomiting so I made an emergency call to the vets. This was after
hours. We immediately took Eve in and the vet gave her a morphine based
pill in her eye to induce vomiting. It took about 4 - 5 minutes for the
pill to take affect. It seemed that the capsules had dissolved but it
looked like there was still the white powder in her stomach contents along with
her dinner. We then put her on liquids to help things clear and had to
leave my poor little baby overnight. I had them put a cone on her head
because I was sure she would eat the intervenes tube. They took blood work
in the morning and both liver and kidney came back normal. I will be
giving her milk thistle to make sure the liver is cleansed and she will go back
in a couple of weeks for a follow up. Scary, scary, scary....
Feb 6, 2009 Eve weighs in at 39 lbs and approx 20
1/2" (still having problems having her stand still long enough to measure her).
Today I decided to try and get her to place her feet in the right position for
stacking by teaching her to touch a narrow piece of carpet with her front paws.
Once she gets this I will teach her to touch a piece of lino with her back paws.
Then put the two together. I was clicker training her looking forward and
its so funny to see her offer this behaviour when we are working on something
else. She will quickly turn her head away then back to me to see if she's
going to get anything. She's very intense and quick when she does it.
Feb 1, 2009 Click here for a video of Eve's
training showing her back up. I have fast forwarded through a lot of the
boring stuff.
January 27, 2009 Eve weighs 35.4 lbs and approx
20" tall. She hasn't put on a lot of weight, I've cut back on how much I
feed her a lunch. I have notice she is getting sleeker and a wee bit
taller. We've been working on a little bit more showing. I
have stopped throwing the treats ahead so she will keep her head up. She
seems to understand the show command. She starts to go forward by herself.
Also worked on the stack by having her touch my hand with her nose.
Hopefully this way I won't have to bribe her with a treat all the time.
Took the dogs for a walk in Walker Valley. They had a great time
Eve pretending she's a pointer
Watch out here they come
Eve and Cynder relaxing on a bench
January 19, 2009 We've been working on her
backing up and she's doing great. I have now added a name to the
behaviour. "Beep". We have also been doing some retrieve work.
Eve is an awesome little retriever. The last couple of days I did a few
short retrieves in my basement. Yesterday I did a couple outside on the
driveway (too much snow to do it anywhere else). She did very well with me
throwing, so today I had Terry come out and throw some for her. She went
to the first bumper right away then took it back to Terry, I whistled her and
called her and she then brought it back to my hand. We threw 5 more and
each time she marked it and brought it back to my hand. She was very
excited to go and get the bumper. One even landed in the snow pile on the
side of the driveway but she had marked it and went and got it. Distance
was probably 30 - 40 ft.
January 11, 2009 Finally
got a picture of Eve without using a flash - you can actually see her eye color.
January 9, 2009 20 weeks old. Eve is 34 lbs today
and approx 19 inches tall. Its very difficult to measure her since she
doesn't stand still for very long.
Eve getting a grooming on the table
January 6, 2009Click Here to see a video of Eve
and I practicing our showing. Sometimes she side whines when she runs
so we will be working on strengthening her back legs. In the meantime, I
am using the same method I am using with getting Cynder to go straight.
That's by putting a leash around the back end and gently guiding it to the
proper position. Unfortunately the part of the video taken showing her
from the side doesn't show a lot but I thought I'd leave it in so you could see
a bit.
December 23, 2008 - 4 months old today and 29 lbs
December 20, 2008 - 17 weeks old today. They grow
so fast. We practiced our stacking today. Tried to take pictures.
Its really hard to take the picture and to stack the dog, even with a timer on
the camera.
Practicing stack - 17 weeks
December 15. 2008 Eve weighs 27.4 lbs and
is starting to get her butt feathers.
December 12, 2008 Worked on clicker
training retrieves using the paint roller with plastic ends attached. Took
her a few minutes to catch on to the fact I wanted her to pick it up, but once
she did she had no problem. I decided to clicker train this vs just
letting her go on instinct because although she would go and get the roller and
bring it back to me she would only do it a couple of times then she would get
distracted and go do her own thing.
December 1, 2008 Eve had her Bordetella and
Rabies shots today. She weighed in at 24 lbs. Haven't done a lot of
training other than throwing a few paint rollers and took her with us again to Cynder's hunt practice where she got to retrieve a couple of small cloth bumpers
with a wing on it. She has really bonded with Cynder. Cynder is so
patient while Eve chews on her ears until they are soaked.
14 weeks old
November 25, 2008 Yesterday Eve and I worked on
sit on whistle. She did very very well. Picked it up after about 2
whistles. She already comes to a couple of toots on the whistle thanks to
Randy using the whistle to feed the puppies when they first started to eat
regular food. The day before we had worked on healing on leash. She
did pretty good, lost her on the turns though. She is still doing her
downs nicely and her recalls are coming along. She's sleeping through the
night totally now. Doesn't get up until Terry has finished his shower and
dressed for work. He then goes out and feeds all the dogs and the cat too.
Its snowing again - can we come in?
November 16, 2008 Eve is 12 weeks old and is
coming along nicely. She joined her sister Cynder at her agility trial in
Kamloops today. When we went for a walk she got introduced to a train
going by, a large shepard barking at her from the other side of the fence,
horses on the other side of fence, a JRT saying hi until Eve got a little too
pushy so the JRT gave her a very small snip to put her in her place. Eve
immediately sat down. She was cuddled and got to meet some really nice
dogs and other puppies. All in all if was a very good experience for her.
Both Eve and Cynder laid quietly in the car for the 2 hour drive in both
directions.
Our first stack at 12 weeks
Cynder not too happy about sharing her crate
Eve going for the great escape using Cynder as a
ladder
November 9, 2008 Eve is doing pretty good with
her sits and downs. Played the who can go down the fastest game with the 3
dogs and she was pretty quick, she even beat Cynder a couple of times. Of
course she got a cookies every time. Introduced her to "here". In close
quarters she comes every time. Took her to Cynder's hunt practice and she
got to fetch her pigeon and she carried a bumper for a long distance from the
training field to the truck. Also did her sits, downs and here's.
When we were practicing retrieving the bird the other people were setting up for
our next set of practice exercises and they tested the bumper boy. I
didn't know they were going to do this so I was not prepared and Eve was in the
process of bringing the bird back to me when it went off, and it was really loud.
It startled her and she dropped the bird and came running back to me. I
helped to relax her, gave her some treats then we did the exercise again.
It took her a few moments but she got back into the swing of things. Thank
goodness. I then took her over to the training field so we could reward her when
the guns and the bumper boy went off. She had no problem with the sounds
this time. She goes in for her second set of shots today. This
week-end she will be going to her first agility trial to watch Cynder compete
and to get used to all the sounds and smells.
11 weeks old at Cynder's Hunt Practice
Nap time after a hard day
November 4, 2008 Eve's first snowfall today.
Cynder and Eve had a great time. Cynder showed her how to dig your face
into the white stuff. We also did more downs today and she's now
responding to verbal command.
First Snow
November 3, 2008 Took Eve for a nice long walk up
in the Hills. She got a little tired so I put her in a pouch I had brought
with me just in case. Carried her for a little while then let her walk the
rest of the way. She does really well walking on leash. She
has really taken to our cat - Cali. She pounces on her then chases her.
Its quite humorous to watch her chase the cat into the kitchen then within a few
moments the cat is chasing her back to the living room. She is now sitting
and waiting to be released to her food in her crate. I feed her in her
crate for a couple of reasons, one so she will learn to really love her crate
and another is so the other dogs don't get to help themselves to her meals.
Ginger is a little piranha. She's still sleeping through the night,
woke up once at 5:30, went outside, then settled right back down until 7:00.
She's getting the down and will go down sometimes. I have waited for her
to offer me this behaviour which took a little longer but she finally did, so
hopefully this will make her downs more solid. We're working on her no
bite since she loves to chew on everything including me. Went for a long
car ride today to Williams Lake and back (over 2 hours) and she behaved very
well in the car along with the other dogs. I started to introduce her
brushing her teeth a few days ago and she has already started to let me use
Cynders electric toothbrush. Its mostly about eating the beef toothpaste
but its a start.
Eve in Gingers Pouch
Watching the Hockey Game
October 31, 2008 We've been working on sit and
down using the clicker. She got the sit on command within 4 minutes and we
are still working on the down. Have only done it a few times since we only
work for a few minutes at a time. We've also been doing retrieves using
the paint roller. We do this first thing in the morning when she's really
active and only do about 4 retrieves down the hall. I am trying not to
overdo the training sessions. I want to make sure she is comfortable
playing with me - which she certainly seems to be. Cynder is now playing
with her. The moons must have aligned just right this morning - she slept
until 7:00 when Terry got up. She's a very happy little girl, full
of energy. I am feeding her raw for her morning meal, Evo kibble for her
lunch and a combination of Evo with a homemade beef based concoction that I feed
Cynder.
In the backyard Oct 31, 2008
October 25-26, 2008 Eve is sleeping thru the
night. She woke up this am at 6:40 only because Cynder decided it was time
for everyone to get up. We've had a couple of busy days. Worked with
Eve on clicker training and the box. It took her about 30 seconds to pick
up on it. She had a car ride into town and was very well behaved.
Today she joined her sister in some hunt practice. I introduced her to gun
fire. First from a distance than within 10 feet. She barely even
noticed by the time we got close to her with it. She was able to play with
a pigeon. She really liked that a lot. Picked it up and carried it.
After we were finished practice at the 150 and on our way home we stopped at the
108 lake to let Cynder have a last retrieve in the water before it freezes and
Eve actually went to run in then the cold hit her and she came out pretty fast.
I don't think we will have too much trouble with getting her in the water once
spring arrives. Once we got home I gave both the dogs a nice warm bath.
Eve weighs 15.8 lbs today.
First Visit to the 108 Lake
first bath in her new home
October 24, 2008 Best night so far, she
slept until 5:30. I was awake before she was. Took her out then put her
back into her crate and she settled down again until 7:00. (This is when my
husband gets up). Big bonus - I didn't even have to lay next to the crate.
She really surprised me this morning when she went to the sliding door and sat
in front of it. When I let her out she went poop. Yeah.......
She repeated this in the afternoon when she woke up and I didn't realize it
until I heard a small whine from the kitchen. Gooooood dog.
October 24, 2008
October 23, 2008 Woke up at 3:30 and 5:30 again.
Tried to take her back to bed with me, but all she wanted to do was play and
chew on my hands so put her back in her crate where she settled down quickly.
While I was preparing the dogs food I realized she had scampered away to the
living room and by the time I got there she had pooped. Got to get this
timing down better. Took the dogs for a short walk to Walker Valley.
Eve wasn't too keen on the leash but by the time we were headed home she was
walking fine. I introduced her to the clicker today.
October 17 - 22, 2008 Eve has now been selected. Formerly known as no mark
then Blue girl. I selected this pup because of her all round testing.
She has nice conformation but the main reason is her personality and her
birdyness. Everytime she was shown a bird she went straight for it and
would pick it up and carry it. She has an independent side yet loves to be
with people.
On her first car ride back to my daughters place in Vancouver,
she was placed in a crate where she proceeded to yelp, bark, cry, whine, howl and
any other sound you can think of all at the top of her lungs. This lasted
for about 10 - 15 minutes. She then stopped, laid down and relaxed.
I'm not sure, but this is also when I started to sing to a song on the radio.
Once we got to our destination I unloaded all the stuff from my car while she
slept in her crate. I then took her inside and she slept for a while
longer. Once she woke up she whined slightly and I took her outside where
she went pee. We played for awhile until she was tired again so I put her
back into her crate and stayed close by. This time she whined slightly
then settled right in. After her nap we went for our first walk. It
was a beautiful sunny fall day and we walked for 1 1/2 blocks. Our walk
took about 1/2 hour. Lots to see along the way and leaves to play in.
She was a little hesitant at times when dogs barked or vehicles started up but
soon got used to these noises. When we returned, she went by herself into
her crate for a nap. After this she would go into the crate whenever she
was tired. At night I put her open crate inside an x-pen next to my bed.
Around 3:00 & 5:30 am she whined to be let out for a pee but settled back down
when put back in her pen. She slept until 7:00 am. The next night
went pretty much the same. The only accident we have had is a poop and
that was because when I took her out I thought she was finished and she wasn't.
Our trip home to 108 Mile Ranch was a bit longer than normal.
I had to go pick up some raw food in Surrey and while on my way I found out that
the big bag of Evo dog food I had bought was left behind in Vancouver so I also
had to find a pet store in Langley that carried this brand. Once all my
running around was complete we headed for home. Eve was a very good
traveller. For the most part she laid quietly in her crate only whining
when she needed to go to the bathroom. I would stop, she'd go, then go
back into her crate. From the time I left my daughters till I got home was
approx 7 hours. That was a long time for Eve to be in her crate (with the
occasional pit stops). She was great.
Once home she was introduced to Cynder, Ginger and our cat
Cali. It went rather well. Cynder's nose is really out of joint, but
that will change. I have a large wire crate set up for her in the kitchen
and this is where she will be sleeping at night. She wasn't as happy about
this since I was not there. She made a big kafuffle so I laid down beside
the crate until she settled. She's waking up around 1:30 am and 5:30 am to
go to the bathroom and will not settle back down unless I lay next to the crate.
Once she is sleeping I go back to bed. This has happened both nights
so far. I may bring her into the bedroom for awhile so that I can get some
sleep. I'm really happy with her letting me know she needs to go out.
So far I have not had one pee inside. I've been able to get her outside
during the day. Although she hasn't been as successful with going poop.
We've had a couple of accidents with this.
The cat is trying to play with her and Cynder has tried once.
Ginger is being Ginger and just nips at her.
first outing
first day
Cynder and Eve want same stuffy
Eve with tugs
8 weeks of age
Eve aka Blue Girl Stack
Blue girl face
Eve is chosen
Ribbon Cutting - no longer blue girl
Eve trying out the stairs
Purple boy (Wicklow) and Blue Girl (Eve)
Eve with bird
Eve, Sia, Wicklow
7 weeks of age
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