I've been training with Sophie for about eight months now, today we made progress. I gave Sophie the command sit, which she did, I then said down and stay. I threw her ball (which she is so obsessed with), she started to move, I gave the command stay, to my amazement she stayed and watched which direction it had landed. I gave her the command to go get her ball in German which she did.
Maybe I should start at the beginning when we first got Sophie. It's a long story.
It was March 2009, we were in the local feed store when I saw an advertisement for German Shepherd puppies. I told my Husband what a good price that was for pure bred Shepherds. To my surprise he told me to take the number and give the owners a call. At the time we had three dogs already, we didn't need a fourth one. I asked him if he was nuts??? Mr. Aloha, my nick name for him, simply said "You're always talking about getting a pure bred German Shepherd, if that's a good price then lets go look." My reply was simple, "Okay". He then added, "Just don't get a dog cause it's cute. make sure it's what you really want. Of course I agreed with him, even though I knew the minute I saw a puppy I'd want one.
I called the owner of the puppies and asked if she had any mostly red female puppies. She said the puppies where black and red, would I like to see them. We were going to the drag races the next day, so she agreed to meet us in a town halfway between where she lived and the races. Needless to say I fell in love with the puppy the minute I saw her! We told her we'd call her after the races to let her know if we would be taking the puppy, we also would like to see what her parents looked like and their temperament.
Mr. Aloha and I talked about it all afternoon. I told him she really wasn't the color I was looking for, but, she was beautiful and a great price. I called the lady, asked if we could come over to see the parents and the other female. When we got there, the owner had the two females out for us to look at. We sat with them for a while, I looked at Mr. Aloha and said "Well???" He said " lets get one", "You choose" I said. He picked the original dog we met earlier in the day. She was six weeks old, I asked the lady if she would keep her till nine weeks, which is the age a puppy should be given away. At that age, a dog learns what it needs from it's mother. She said no, they were weened from their mom and eating puppy chow. Well, needless to say we took her home that evening.
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| As you can see by the photo, she was very difficult to resist How could I not take her home with me. |
