Penny,
Just read your blog and I am dumbfounded!
Kodi has adopted the same way to sit, it is his favorite position now. His other is laying down with his head on the step above him.
He is also crazy, weird. As you can see from last Saturday’s agility he is somewhere on an other planet. A couple weeks ago he was pretty much predictable. Now we have no clue how he is going to react or what he is going to do other than run wildly (unfortunately not vary gracefully). He who could run, jump and fly now forgets which direction he was going or what he intended to do all resulting in some dramatic antics. Auntie Lynne said we need to send him to ballet school after he ran after his toy she threw and decided midway to do a rollover getting totally twisted around flopping on his back.
I knew ZuZu would protect you all when it mattered. Loved the school bus video as watching her made me more comfortable as to the way she wriggled around similar to Kodi. Right now he is driving me crazy with his soulful, head slightly down, look over his shoulder much like a wolf does except he gets the most pitiful look in his eyes. One minute he is challenging us the next he acts like we beat him. He does the same with Keiko, one minute wrestling, biting, growling, attacking the next lying on his back in a submission poise. Even Keiko looks at him wondering what she did to prompt him to roll over – looking back at us with that I didn’t bite him look.
We lost the tassles to a runner in our dressing area due to his chewing. He seems to need to chew more now than when he was teething and loosing his puppy teeth. He will chew on his cow femur bone for an hour and even then reluctantly let us take it away. We only like to let them chew for 15 minutes every other day but he wants his bone daily right now.
Yes – will be glad to see this stage end and oh- don’t kennel her. She will never, ever forgive you especially at this delicate stage. We are amazed as to how attached and family oriented our puppies are. Kodi has to be involved in every household activity and will pout if not included. We sort of expected a dog who would prefer being outside with some alone time. Not Kodi! 24/7 with us. We love it but he so loves doing even the most mundane chores such a vacuuming with us we are afraid to break his heart by leaving him for a couple days. The other day we had to take Keiko to the vet for them to draw a urine sample (she has an e-coli infection and poor girl is on two different massive dosages of antibiotics) and when they took her out of the exam room to get the sample Kodi freaked! We thought he was going to have an emotional breakdown in the room.
For whatever reason this seems to be an emotional time in his life as he swings from happy. happy, crazy happy to a bit moody and reluctant. He also is off his food unless steak or yogurt. Never was a good eater but now he prefers to take a bite, leave it and come back later for another bite but never really finishing his meal. So after 15 minutes his dish is picked up and looks at us as to why?? Even not eating he still weighs in at slightly over 102 pounds and height wise is somewhere around 28 inches at the shoulder but his butt his now taller again and probably why he is so clumsy again.
Ron
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