Getting to know you!!

Our new CCI puppy is named Cash.  He is a lab/ golden cross but carries more of the lab characteristics physically but his personality is more of the golden retriever.  He is a precocious little guy.  At times seemingly smart beyond his time but still very much a puppy learning the ropes of becoming a CCI puppy and part of our pack.



Our release dog Curtis however wants nothing to do with the little guy.  Of the four puppies that we have now had, the only pup that Curt has really accepted was Pazzo.  Cash is taking full advantage of Curtis not wanting anything to do with him by taking his sleeping places, his bones; what ever Curtis has Cash wants.

We have had Cash almost three weeks now.  He just turned 12 weeks old this past weekend and now weighs almost 19 lbs.  He has gained almost 2 pounds a week since we brought him home.

As all puppies do, everything goes into his mouth just like a human child.  Leaves, sticks, paper, you name it, if he can get to it he will vacuum it into his mouth faster than you can blink.  I forget from one puppy to the next how fast puppies can do that.

CCI requires that we acclimate the pups to a gentle leader or halty as some are called.  Cash loathes his.  He is the worst of the four pups that we have had.  We will have our work cut out in getting him over the wearing of it.

And one other issue that we will have to work on early and often is his control in greeting.  Cash seems to carry the excitable characteristic that most goldens have with their love of people and being around people especially greeting new people.  A lot of no look, no talk, no touch and a lot of treats.  Will he out grow it by February 2014?  We will see!!

Giving Up Pazzo

I apologize for not keeping up with the blog but near the time of the last post, Pazzo was dismissed from the program due to food guarding.  Pazzo was left with CCI for a week to try to help with his food guarding but to no avail.  When we picked up Pazzo we were given the news so Pazzo became our pet.

The problem is we want to continue to raise puppies for CCI and we do not have the room for more than two dogs.  We already have a release dog from CCI so keeping Pazzo would have been a choice to no longer raise puppies which we did not want to do.

Friends of ours who are also puppy raisers told us of friends in Texas who have been on the adoptive list with CCI for nearly three years and were still very interested in adopting a release dog from CCI.  After several e-mails the decision was made to allow Pazzo to be adopted.

Pazzo left us in September and is now at home with his new pack near Dallas, TX.  Pazzo has a new big sister Katie, a 13 year old golden retriever and little sister Gracie who is a 2 year old Maltese.

Pazzo was our first puppy that we really got to know not only as a CCI puppy but as our pet.  The last four months Pazzo became a true member of the family.  That made it hard to give him up.  We came very close to keeping Pazz.  He seems to be acclimating very well to his knew family and pack.  His new owner actually flew here and spent 3 days here with us learning who Pazzo is and his personality before driving him back to his new home is Texas. 

His new family has been very good about keeping us informed on how Pazzo is doing.  While there have been a few bumps on the way, everything overall seems to be going very well. To help us get over Pazzo, we have received a new puppy from CCI and that is news for a new post.