Welcome, Ollie!
Apparently "ask and you shall receive" works with dogs, too. We tried to get a yellow Lab from a semi-local shelter (three hours away) last Friday. Someone had already taken him out for a home visit...
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Thanks for all the good wishes.
Day 2 has been an eye opener. This so-called totally out of control pup has immediately morphed into mostly a gentleman! We have always had Golden Retrievers (four of them) and black Labs (four of them) plus a Lab/Chessie who looked like a Lab but had Chessie mentality. The Labs took several years to come to some form of calm. This is our first yellow. Ollie is just so very eager to please. He is working on his basic commands, one of which we have put a priority on. That is that he has to sit and wait for one of us to go out the door first. He had a tendency to blast out between your legs or slam you into the door jamb while trying to be the first through the door. A dominance thing with dogs, but fortunately we were aware of that and have been able to make good headway on that today.
In the house he behaves so very well. Has obviously been house trained, as he will tell us when he needs out. After he did his rounds this morning, he just settled in under the coffee table.
He went to the vet this afternoon and got a clean bill of health. His behavior was 180* from the way he acted at the shelter yesterday. They were thrilled to meet him.
Here is a picture that I call "I just don't know what we are going to do with this out of control puppy". Hopefully posting from my laptop instead of the iPad will let the picture come through properly.
I guess it isn't the iPad. Must be operator error. Here is the link.
http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac200/Turbotailmurph/DSCF0172_zps785dh6px.jpg
Day 2 has been an eye opener. This so-called totally out of control pup has immediately morphed into mostly a gentleman! We have always had Golden Retrievers (four of them) and black Labs (four of them) plus a Lab/Chessie who looked like a Lab but had Chessie mentality. The Labs took several years to come to some form of calm. This is our first yellow. Ollie is just so very eager to please. He is working on his basic commands, one of which we have put a priority on. That is that he has to sit and wait for one of us to go out the door first. He had a tendency to blast out between your legs or slam you into the door jamb while trying to be the first through the door. A dominance thing with dogs, but fortunately we were aware of that and have been able to make good headway on that today.
In the house he behaves so very well. Has obviously been house trained, as he will tell us when he needs out. After he did his rounds this morning, he just settled in under the coffee table.
He went to the vet this afternoon and got a clean bill of health. His behavior was 180* from the way he acted at the shelter yesterday. They were thrilled to meet him.
Here is a picture that I call "I just don't know what we are going to do with this out of control puppy". Hopefully posting from my laptop instead of the iPad will let the picture come through properly.
I guess it isn't the iPad. Must be operator error. Here is the link.
http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac200/Turbotailmurph/DSCF0172_zps785dh6px.jpg
