7.5 years and ears up!

Changes

Basco has incurred a lot of changes in the past month. He hasn't coped with them as well as I would have liked, but again its been a lot. Scout and Sydney went to new homes because they attacked my cat Willy. He then became an only for for about a week. Then on Jan 30th Yoshi (http://issryoshi.blogspot.com) came home. He's jealous, but holding it together well. He has been guarding the dog door though and only allowing Yoshi in when he wants.

Basco has been in love with the snow - if it doesn't get stuck in his paws. He was catching snow balls Here are a few pictures.

Sydney's new adventure

Scout went to his new home about 3 weeks ago, that was rough and emotional and just down right devastating. Today I drove Sydney to Bloomington, IL to another transporter. She is going to be adopted through Mississippi Valley GSD Rescue. Here are a few pictures of her from her last days here.Basco sleeping on the way home from dropping Syd off
Syd looking at her transporter

Sydney has such a sense of humor. I will really miss her.

Sydney relaxing on the way to her newest adventure
Relaxing on her favorite bed yesterday

Basco and Sydney having one last play session

One of my fave pictures I took yesterday. She's at a full run.

Recap of 2008

Well, I haven't updated this blog in over a year so I'll give you a brief update on 2008 in the life of Basco. He graduated obedience class twice with flying colors!

- In June the NBC chapter put together a sheep herding picnic at http://www.stockdoguniversity.com/

It was a blast, In total 14 dogs came from all over the midwest and even as far as Canada!

- In August I drove up to NY with Scout (my GSD) and Basco for Homecoming 2008. I wasn't sure what to expect or what would be going on, but I decided to go anyway. It was fun, but very hot! The dogs had a good time and Basco got to visit NZ - where I adopted him from.

- At the end of the year I brought him to a Pet Expo in the area and got his picture professionally taken, and they turned out great! One is in the header and the other is on the sidebar. He also got 2nd place in the "leave it contest"

-Also here are some pictures of the CLASS picnic. It was up at Devil's Lake, WI. The forecast was grim but we made the trek up their anyway. The beginning was a nice day, but it quickly turned into a monsoon. The end of the day was spent in Virginia's hotel room with the dogs.

New pictures

Here are more pictures of Basco, none though of his gorgeous coat he has now after his grooming the other day! I am excited I put down a deposit on a Solace pup and will start her blog soon.

Invisible Fence

Today started day 1 of 10 of Invisible fence training. As I thought Basco tested the barrier in the house more than the other two. Now he wont go near the room, which is what we want. It beeped about twice and Rayn doesnt want to come up stairs and Scout walked through it as it beeped with his ears against his head and jumped on the bed, and he was on the other side, he did that a few times so unfortunately his collar had to be bumped up, he went in once and won't go near it again either! They installed the fence today as well, but we aren't able to use it until day 7 of training when the trainer comes back. They want me to tempt the dogs in the barriers, but my dogs wont go in there for anything! They know better, I hope they respect the whole fence like that!

We might have another addition to the family, no not a shiloh! I can't afford one and 4 is about 3 to many dogs! A one eyed kitty named AppleJack or One Eyed Jack. I saw him at Petsmart and he's so sweet! I know I have enough cats, and I shouldn't get one because of the last "incident" but Pippin is so lonely without Mr. Magoo, the other two cats refuse to wrestle with him. So Pippin needs a kitty friend to wrestle with. We'll see how things go tomorrow.

Mossimo

Basco has a new "friend" actually from what I have been told is scared to death of him. My roommate just moved in with of all things a Chihuahua! go figure. I'll post pictures of the 4 of them when I get back home. Basco's actually on vacation at my work for the week, I couldn't bring him with me to Chicago.

I totally have puppy fever right now, like everyone else! I guess I'll have to wait for a long while until I get a pup though. I know Basco would love it, so would my other guys.