Wild Dingo

Last year, I took Juno to beach classes without Loki because she had to do a few special classes for her Therapy Dog certification. When I worked Juno by herself, I had absolutely no obedience problems with her. She did everything perfectly: stayed, came, heeled, sat on picnic tables. She even hurdled over BBQ stands on command. After she got her certification, I began working Loki a little more and Juno a lot less. I figured, heck, she passed all her tests with flying colors. For a husky, she had a decent recall, a great down-stay and was well behaved, she probably didn’t need more than that.  I kept working Loki, daily, and just let Juno play as distraction for Loki during our training time.

Then I took them both to beach classes early this year. And the other shoe dropped.  Read the rest of this entry »

One of my current jobs is to keep the photos and content updated on The K9 Clinic Web site. Can you say “dream job?”  How fun is it to add photos and think of silly captions? Check it out!

Twinkle Toes, the Formosan Jumping Bean,  shows us it takes more than one human hurdle to challenge his athletics!

Can you?

Wanna be startin’ somthin’…

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Everyone sorely mistakes Juno for the shy, not-too-smart member of our family. But anyone who knows Siberian Huskies, knows just how crafty they can be to get exactly what they want. And Juno is no different. This past year, though Juno has always submitted to Loki’s bully behavior, she slowly has found devious ways of leveraging a higher status.

One of Loki’s favorite method’s of control over Juno is her bullying her access through doors and rooms. It took a while for me to recognize what he was doing was not play, before I got him to stop. Occasionally, he’ll still try it though. Can’t blame a bad boy for trying I guess.

Here, Juno finally gives him a taste of his own medicine and tells him when he can come and go through the tree house.

Like another great beauty, Helen of Troy, Juno appreciates the view from the walls of her fortress.

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Every morning is routine here at Wild Dingo. Get up, go outside. Clean up dog yard and put up with the ridiculous antics of two very attention-needy dogs. Mr. Wild Dingo has a hard time believing that Juno can be a tough little gal and stand up to Loki. Juno never displays her confidence or strength in front of him to see. Tomorrow’s story we’ll show just how tough she really is. For now, here she is at her best trying to get that bully to be a better playmate.

“Hi tough-guy, lookin’ for a little action?”

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Last July 4th, Wild Dingo’s rock star lifestyle took a back seat to a white picket fence and dog yard for our wild beast. This year, Mr. Wild Dingo wielded the tool belt and power tools to build a tree house—for the dogs. And as usual, it took a lot of work on both our parts.

Here’s what Mr. Wild Dingo did: Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Wild Dingo actually looks like he’s listening to me talk.

As promised, here are some more pix from the Fun Match!

Julie/Juno, Christi-Ann (our K9 Clinic Trainer/Nikko, Christine/Yukon

 Here we are (Christine and I) the odd balls at our Saturday morning class who take their cats, err, huskies to dog obedience. We convince ourselves that obedience is working for them. Here, they sit pretty. Sometime later, when Juno was in that orange ring behind us, posing, she bit through it to make some sort of statment about confinining a husky with such a ridiculous attempt. Do you know how embarrassing it is to suddenly fnd yourself and your dog at the opening of the orange tape that now is flapping in the wind?

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