The Well Behaved Dingo

Scherzo passed level 3 and level 4 on the road! woot woot.

Scherzo’s new folding crate came yesterday and it’s huge! Oh well, better big than small. I got it on eBay so it was cheaper than if I’d bought the smaller size.

I didn’t know what Scherz would think of the new crate but it was awesome, I shaped her to go in and lay down in, I swear, about 30 sec. It was awesome. And very cute her chillin in her palatial crate.

As you can see Scherzo has almost passed level 3. Yes, it has taken a long time. But I realised that its because we don’t have a house, we basically have to learn everything on the road or atleast with lots of distractions. Our main places of training are the library parking lot, Border’s, Mac’s dad’s work, Mac’s mom’s house (where there are 3 other dogs) etc. So Scherz has passed all of level 3 on the road, and most of level 4, she has also passed about half of level 4. So, I guess the fact that it took over a year to get through level three doesn’t sound so bad now. She’s so awesome. Today we tested level 3 and 4 on the road stuff. She was a bit distracted and I was suprised because shes used to going new places, but then on the way out we realised that thing that had had her only a little distracted was a deer!

-20s with wind chill, but the dingo is nice and warm in her van. She thinks when it’s this cold she has to run anywhere she goes!

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puppymill

I would expect nothing less from a store called “Petland”, but apparently they have sold about 17,000 puppy mill puppies to unsuspecting customers. There is a suicide inducing video here if you really need to, you know, top off a great day with some footage of tiny innocent puppies with foot injuries from their cages, lack of clean pens, room to run, and an interview with a Petland owner who insists that they aren’t from a puppy mill. Oh yes, and you can send them an email from the webpage telling them to stop. Nothing will change ofcourse, but let me tell you I personalized the heck out of my email and it felt good.

I can’t think of anything more disgusting than breeding puppies in puppy mills. You know, factory farms and animal testing at the very least have faux justifications. We “have to feed” millions of people, we have to save lives yadda yadda. But there is absolutely no excuse when

“Seven dogs & cats are born every day for each person born in the U.S.  Of those, only 1 in 5 puppies and kittens say in their original home for their natural lifetime.  The remaining 4 are abandoned to the streets or end up at a shelter” (The Humane Society of the United States)

Only 1 in 7 puppies are taken care of, that is fed and kept alive. From what I see day to day I know that dogs who get walked every day and do any kind of training EVER are in the top 1%. We are ruining the dogs we have now and yet here these people are stuffing puppies in cages purely to make money. Because really there is no way to rationalize this. No lives are being saved, you’re not watching your kids make yummy noises as they devour that white white meat at the dinner table. You just go to work every day and sell another inanimate object. You look at a little fluffball puppy who is crying for its mom and has foot injuries and see an object that has no feelings or meaning other than to serve you by looking cute. psycho idiots need to rot and die.

Scherzo spent an hour off leash up at MSU today, opening doors with handicapped buttons, running along walls, eating duck poop (but not ducks!), and then, just after this picture, chasing a rabbit.

We went hiking in bear canyon the other day, it was extremely muddy which kind of made it fun.

Last time we were there we got lost in the woods for 2 1/2 hours.  This time we realized halfway down that we couldn’t go all the way up because of some dynamite in the area.

“Hey, but guys, we can still go up, right?”

We didnt want to bushwack again, so we just walked up and down the little section that was open pondering how to find some wild turkeys to get our picture taken with. You see, we were up there specifically in search for wild turkeys, as part of the La Parilla scavenger hunt. And we actually managed to stalk and find some. Sadly, in the end we didn’t win the challenge. But Scherzo thought stalking a band of wild turkeys was pretty fun anyway. 

  

 

 

wild turkeys!