Pepsi's little road trip!!

Pepsi and I went for a little road trip to Leesburg Florida today.  It was a lot of fun meeting Sandy from Serenity's Chihuahuas.  She gave us a lot of pointers on how to stack, walking around the ring, free stacking and grooming.  And she thinks he is very cute!! She even gave us a show lead!!  She is one very nice lady.  I can't wait to see her and her dogs again. 

So we are going to work on a few things so we will be ready for the show circuit this summer!!!

Training training and more training....

Sorry I haven't written anything in a while.  I have been busier then usual.  One thing is the training of Pepsi.  I have been working with him a lot.  He goes to a trainer once a week for an hour and we are working on the skills during the week.  I am hoping that when it is time to show he will be in excellent shape to win some points.

This weekend we have the opportunity to do a run through of the AKC canine citizenship test.  He has it mostly down.  Just a few squeaks here and there that need to be polished up.

He is progressing well with the therapy training as well.  The training really kills two birds with one stone.  He is over trained for the therapy work at this point.  He didn't really need all this training but it is good for him.  I was sick the last two weekends so we didn't do anything with the therapy work.  But we are on schedule for this weekend.  We are going to a site to work with children.

I went to the hospital to do the orientation.  I would have brought him along if I had known he was welcome.  Oh well.  It went very well and I have started the paper work so we can do hospital visits.  Just have to wait until he is properly registered and I have the paperwork in hand.  Then we go for an interview to see if we can fit into the hospital setting.

I also got myself a part time job as a gardener.  Some of you know that I love gardening.  I get paid for my time and for the flowers.  This also gives me some spending money for all our doggy needs!!

Tito is charting to be around 2 1/2 lbs fully grown.  In eight days he will be four months old.  He is so tiny, he feels like a 6 week old chi to me, but I have started to train him as well.  He is getting the sit command down, and he did well with the "park it" command.

                                                                     Pepsi and Snickie in the garden.

It is cold out there.

It is cold out there so the doggies are on strike.  There is no need to go potty outside in the cold when there is plenty of lovely carpet to go on inside.

So they are sneaking around inside trying to find a nice spot and i'm trying to catch them in the act and send them outside.

They are all curling inside one crate to keep warm.  Chica is the short hair and is accepting a sweater to help her keep warm.  The other two have longer hair.

When outside the one side of the house has a nice sunny spot sheltered from the wind.  That is where you will find them huddled.  And that is only when forced outside against there will.

I Luv Pepsi Cola

So a while back I posted a to do list for Pepsi.  Things we need to work on.  Some were more urgent then others....

1. submissive peeing.  He is doing very well.  Sometimes he crouches down when I approach and then I back off.  I let him come to me and he hasn't peed in a while.  yeah!!

2.  Howling at 4.30am - this one is a killer.  He is doing better.  He now starts at 6am.  We generally yell shush of hush at him and his other cohorts in crime.  seems to work.  I go in when they aren't making noise so not to reward for such a nasty behaviour.

3.  Pooping outside and not in crate.  This is a difficult one.  He still poops in the crate but I put newspaper in with him.  So at least it isn't on the towel. When contained in the back room he is aiming for the newspaper more and more.  I have seen him pee outside and he is praised for that in a big way.

4.  Walking on the leash... not much progress has been made in this area.  I do put him on the leash when he is in the car and sometimes in the house.  We have tried walking him but he doesn't go far if at all.  But what he does do we praise.

Hopefully he will keep making strides forward and live will be more quiet.