Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: GUEST,maire-aine Date: 03 Jul 07 - 01:47 PM Thanks so much for the lovely picture. It sure brightened my day. Maryanne |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 03 Jul 07 - 01:42 PM Thanks guys. It's a trip. I've never had a puppy this young -- we brought him home at 7 weeks (I don't recommend it). But it's been amusing in its own way. For one thing, seeing the profound changes that occur in awareness between the 7th and 8th week -- nothing short of amazing. He went from focusing on nothing to exploring and amusing himself with toys in that week. Ariel's agility equipment is set up around the back yard. One of the apparatuseseses is a teeter totter. At 8 weeks Breeze was fascinated with the teeter and would walk the length of it before he had enough body weight to tip it. We had a rug drying right at the tipping point of the teeter and Breeze walked right up to the midway point. Normally nothing would have happened, but this time the rug was enough added weight and the teeter tottered. Breeze wasn't frightened. He was thrilled. We were worried. Now he wanted to do it all the time. We had to lower the teeter to its lowest point. Now he will dash around the yard doing nothing....and for no apparent reason other than fun, he will run the teeter. Hilarious to watch a dog no bigger than a minute doing the teeter. Further -- you know that scene where Fred Astaire is dancing around a room and steps up on a chair, steps futher up to its back, and then tips the chair over and walks gracefully down the back of the now-tipped over chair?... ...Breeze figure out that he could do that with a lightweight chaise lounge that we had set up in the back yard. Sometimes he hops up on the lounge to nap. Mostly he hops up on the lounge, walks up the back of it until it tips over, then he walks off the now-tipped lunge chair and lets it flip back aright behind him. Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When dancing up the back of the lounge chair seat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: katlaughing Date: 03 Jul 07 - 01:24 PM What Becca said! I love seeing update photos of your dogs, John. Thanks! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jul 07 - 11:14 AM That's wonderful! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Becca72 Date: 03 Jul 07 - 11:08 AM OMG is that sweet. What beautiful dogs! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:39 AM Sorry I didn't see your reply to this thread, SRS! The breeder of Ariel is the person who helped us get Ariel out of a lousy kennel situation in Tennessee last year. Ariel wasn't abused. More that she was treated like livestock. Ariel isn't livestock. She's a live wire. Too intelligent and inquisitive and, mostly, too loving to be stuck in a cage for the rest of her life. Anyway, the breeder who helped us get Ariel has Ariel's sister and that dog's son. She bred the son and his offspring is now our "Breeze" (or B.Z.). Ariel has taken to him like her own. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jun 07 - 10:04 PM So back up a little and tell us this story again. This puppy you picked up is from someone who owns a litter mate of Ariel's? Did you not have the choice to bring home Ariel's pup, even though you saw her? Surely Ariel wouldn't recognize it now? Or is she not available? SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 18 Jun 07 - 08:21 AM wot a beautiful pup! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Sorcha Date: 18 Jun 07 - 07:38 AM PUPPIES! (you'll be soorrrrrreeeeeee) |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 18 Jun 07 - 07:31 AM I finally got to see Ariel's puppy on Friday and Saturday when we went up to pick up our new pup. We haven't figured out his name yet, but he's Ariel's nephew. Ariel's puppy is a beautiful, dark (if at a sort of gangly stage) girl, and may some day be the lead dog on a sporting sled team (replacing Ariel's sister). |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Becca72 Date: 01 Mar 07 - 10:46 AM That is just about the cutest little face I've ever seen! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 01 Mar 07 - 10:44 AM No name yet. And we're reconsidering trying to bring her home. Ariel is such a gentle spirit (even though she at first rejected the pup -- a rejection that I think had most to do with the fact that the pup was born via C-section and Ariel woke in pain with a strange "thing" trying to crawl all over her). It's not a good idea to put two mal bitches together, but in my case, we live AND work at home and could PROBABLY remain alpha enough to maintain order in the home. Truth is, we have already forfeited our initial rights to the pup. But if the pup ends up not being show quality, she may become available again. If we get her, her name MIGHT be "Flurry". |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: MMario Date: 01 Mar 07 - 10:37 AM So does "ariel's pup" have a name of her own yet? |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 01 Mar 07 - 10:29 AM Update. Pup's still doing great. The Old English Sheepdog family has a couple of pre-teen girls -- one plays piano to Ariel's puppy, the other takes the pup to bed with her at anight and reads to her. this and that |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Alba Date: 18 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM Thanks for the link John. Lovely Post and lovely Thread altogether really. A delightful read. I have a rare Fur Ball that shares his Life with me. His name is Barney the wonder dog and he was a sad, starving and abused wee man when he came to stay 7 years ago and for a while it was doubtful that he would survive the ill treatment he had be subjected to. He is 12 years old now. I call him my Woolen Squirrel Terrier...he is a mix of Jack Russell, Border Collie and Beagle. I watched this fella go through many "emotions' during his first few years with me. To me, dogs laugh, get sad, have good days and bad days but the one thing they never stop feeling, I believe, is love for those that care for them and no matter how Barney might be feeling he always has some love affection to spare! Don't know what I would do without him really. Jude |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 18 Feb 07 - 11:20 AM "Now someone tell me Dogs don't laugh!!!" You won't hear that from me! In fact, I wrote about another of my happy malamutes here. My wife is enjoying a really good book about animals and their "emotions" (she's contending that they do have 'em). I do know there's few things that make man happier than sharing life with a good dog. Or cat -- Moose and Crush are as enjoyable as the dogs I've had. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Alba Date: 18 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM Ah John she looks so happy. Way to go Ariel! Now someone tell me Dogs don't laugh!!! Thanks for sharing her with us. Warmest Wishes as always, Jude |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 18 Feb 07 - 10:19 AM Getting Ariel's mind off of mommying. We got out and skied a few miles this morning. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Sooz Date: 18 Feb 07 - 04:26 AM Need more pictures of the puppies please. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Sorcha Date: 17 Feb 07 - 07:36 PM I love the cat dogs but not conducive to our lifestyle. Besides, they have tails. Real dogs don't have tails. :) |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 17 Feb 07 - 05:34 PM My friend has a catahula. Lucy is, I swear it, the seventh wonder of the dog athletic world. She can standing leap a tall building in a single bound. Well, five feet straight up, anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Feb 07 - 05:05 PM Add catahoulas to that border collie mentality. She can drive us nuts trying to get us to go where she wants. She tries to herd the pit bull all of the time, and the pit bull's response is to leap straight up and over the top of her to get out of the way. It's quite a beautiful canine ballet when they are playing out back. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 17 Feb 07 - 01:26 PM Nowhere else to post this, but I enjoyed it. At least this is a remotely connected topic... "Malamutes are convinced that the world is run, if you can even call it that, by a bunch of spineless incompetents with no sense of order and no ability to enforce rules. Border Collies share the conviction but are committed to rising above the chaos or herding it neatly into enclosures." --Susan Conanat |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: fat B****rd Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:40 AM Lovely thread and pics , John. Yours f (big softy) B. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: MartinRyan Date: 14 Feb 07 - 05:04 PM Isn't Google great? Knowing only Robert Service's "Malamute Saloon", I'd no idea what this was about until I Googled it! Regards |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM Poor dog. Maybe you now need to rub the puppy on the stuffed toys so she smells like them, and give it a try! I wonder if you could slip the puppy in while she's sleeping? SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: katlaughing Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:24 PM Any chance she'd take to the real thing, now? |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Alba Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:40 PM Oh John...*sniff* |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:19 PM The story continues... This is just a guess, but I would say that part of the reason Ariel rejected the pup in the first place is because she had it C-section. She woke up unaware of having given birth to this little thing crawling around on her. Oh, it's not that unusual for an older dog to reject a single pup, but the way things have progressed, I'm guessing it was more than just the old dog/single pup thing. Now that Ariel is home, she has gathered up every single stuffed toy in the house and has taken them up to her open crate (we made it feel like a den for her by covering it and making it dark when we realized she wouldn't settle without a den.). If you pick up one of these ersatz "babies" and squeek the squeeker, Ariel will roll over on her side so that she can nurse it. When she takes a new stuffed toy up to her den, she immediately lies down with it in nursing position. For more than a week now, the only thing on Ariel's mind is her brood. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Bob the Postman Date: 13 Feb 07 - 08:14 AM As an expert on other people's dogs, it is my opinion that those puppies sure are cute. Dogs are generous folk--we can learn a lot from them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:36 AM Looks like a mink in with the pigs. What contrast! They are very cute. :) We had a cat that fostered the neigbhbor's kittens one year after they lost their mom cat. They were fairly close in age, but not so close as these pups. She was fine with their three since she only had a couple of her own. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: katlaughing Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:22 AM What cuties! |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: dianavan Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:20 AM Ahhhhh! Too cute. |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Alba Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:39 PM Thanks for sharing the pics John. They are ALL adorable. Give Ariel an extra hug, she may be fickle but that comes with age..and all is well that ends well:) Best Wishes, Jude |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Sorcha Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:38 PM Herd sled, pull sheep. Congratualtions, poppa |
Subject: RE: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:27 PM "Pull sled? Herd sheep? Pull sled? Herd sheep? I'm so confused!" |
Subject: BS: Old English Sheep Malamute From: John Hardly Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:14 PM Well, much to our disappointment, Ariel had her puppy about two weeks ago. As sometimes happens with older females, she was only carrying one pup. As also sometimes happens when there's only one pup -- the mother doesn't accept the pup. Ariel immediately didn't like the pup. But a cool thing happened. The woman who arranged the breeding in the first place happened to have a client whose Old English sheep dog had a litter of puppies on the same day that Ariel gave birth. They took Ariel's pup, rubbed her on the Old English puppies so they'd share a scent, and then put her with that litter. The mother accepted her immediately. Obviously, so did her new brothers and sisters..... here and here |