(VICT) Another BC in My Future

  • From: metnme2 <metnme2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Vi-Clicker <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:12:38 -0800 (PST)

No not right away, No Met is not retiring, Yes Met is
OK and continuing to improve by leaps and bounds
aesthetically and gradually in working form. Smiles
If everything works out the way I hope it will, I have
made the decision that next year I am going to get a
puppy if the momma cooperates and breeds LOL Last year
she refused so this one right now is her very first
litter.
It is with the breeder who is a friend of mine who I
have said I always want Met's successor to come from.
She has a beautiful Red and White BC with four
beautiful puppies right now. She is proving to be a
very good mamma. If there was not so much in my life
right now- so much pain emotionally, so much I need to
figure out between now and puppy time- I could have
one soon but I won't do that to me or to Met or even
to the puppy.
After losing Nanook in January and Emma in February we
just need a break from things...
I am trying to stay busy and having this *hope* for
next year- well it helps me do just that. I am nervous
about starting with such a young pup. Met was 6 months
old when I got him with the damage to his health
already done months before. This will be a HEALTHY
puppy Grin
I do suspect I am going to need to move to do this so
hence another reason why I need that year. Gotta save
to be able to do that.... Since I have Section 8
though my subsidy can go with me. I do believe I may
be required to stay put through January though. 
Even if they would allow me the puppy here, I am not
so sure I would want the pressure of all the people
who think its gonna be another joke like the other gal
who had a puppy here before... I don't want to feel
pressured to speed up training to prove I know how to
do things.
I am a bit nervous about certain aspects. Mostly early
puppyhood stuff and visual ones. I trained Met to
guide as my vision was deteriorating. I knew my area
like the back of my hand (and in a move I won't
necessarily know that) I was able to know more what I
wanted and be able to point these things out with Met
because of the timing of the earlier part of his guide
training. I won't have that luxury this time. I can
always hope it will have as good instincts as Met
but... I know I can't expect it to be a bed of roses
from the start to the finish.
I could really use hearing from people who have
trained from puppyhood themselves. Or if anyone knows
of a really good puppy book that deals with all the
neat essentials like the Urban Puppy kit does- that
does not seem like something I could easily scan.
Maybe someone here has this or knows about it though
enough to know if that is a possibility before I spend
$35 bucks. They want $15 just to ship it!
I know I will need to make a prioritization of the
most important things to train and when to train them
in terms of the safety of the pup as well. Like I know
I can teach the words for guiding just as we walk
along but I certainly won't be strapping on a harness
at 6 months of age and expecting the pup to guide me.
I hope Met is still working in a year to get me
through those earlier puppy growth times and even keep
it happy when I am pooped out, but I may find I am
gonna want that puppy trained more than ever by
then... Smile

OK so a lot can happen in a year but this is the
goal....

Karyn and Met

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