We've met several adult vizsla's at the dog parks and the owners say they never lose their craziness. I guess we are in for an adventure, lol, but I still wouldn't trade her for any other breed. I'm just anxiously waiting till she's one year old so I can start doing long runs with her. The longest I've ever run by myself without stopping is 6miles and I think she's going to be my motivator to one day do a half marathon and eventually a full marathon. But as a puppy, I can't start running with her because it will cause problems with her bones and joints since she is still growing. So until then, the only exercise she gets is when she runs at the dog park with her own kind.
After giving her a bath, she earned the right to be on my bed and sleep with me.
She got bit by some small dog at the dog park. I knew that little dog that bit her was a problem dog because the owner was yelling at it and picking it up by the forearms or collar (I thought she was going to dislocate something) and the little dog looked nervous and angry at the same time. And of course here comes Nala thinking every dog wants to play with her and as she ran past her that little dog got her teeth sunk into Nala's snout. All I heard was Nala yelping and run away, the owner of the other dog didn't even say anything to us. I think Nala's nickname is going to be scar face since she has a bites everywhere, including under her right eye from when she was just 4 weeks old, already getting into trouble.
The last days of working on my Masters, she still wanted to be on my lap while I worked.
You can see her snake tongue, lol. She bit it when she was 4 weeks old when her mom bit her under her right eye for trying to steal her bone.
This is from last weeks puppy training class. We got her diploma! We are proud parents.
I've been lagging on post updates because the last two weeks of September got super busy for me, finishing up my Masters. But now that I'm officially a Masters of Science, I have more free time for my puppy. She is doing excellent, all caught up with her vaccinations. We just need to take her in for rabies and spay when she's a little older. Living in Portland, Nala has to get used to the rain, but so far she doesn't seem to mind it. She just looks up at the sky and starts licking the air for the raindrops, lol. I want to get her a rain coat but my bf says it's ridiculous or that I should wait till she's done growing because he doesn't want to buy more than one. But I think I'll convince him soon that our puppy gets cold because she doesn't have a thick layer of blubber and fur like my study species, the Steller sea lions.
The picture on the left is when we went to pick her up from the breeders at 8 weeks old and the picture on the right is Nala at 14 weeks; She barely fits in my arms and is too squiggly to stay put
Her second to last training sessions. She had a bad training day due to distractions but towards the end of the 1.5hr class, she was getting tired so she was able to focus a little better. We were doing the "park it" and "come" command to practice the situation where a visitor came to our door and we can tell Nala to go to her bed and stay aka park it.
She took over my computer chair and I couldn't say no to that face
To show how much she's grown from 2 months to 4 months, here's a series of her collars.
Nala was bored one day, mommy was busy doing dishes and daddy was on his computer doing who knows what, so Nala found herself a toy and destroyed it. Now daddy was blind for a week until he could get new glasses.
My 4yr old niece came to visit one weekend and Nala thought she was a play thing. My niece was a little scared but mostly happy to play with Nala but she kept saying "Nala is too crazy" because all of the wiggling she does with her but and nonstop energy, lol. In the end, they became buddies and were watching saturday cartoons together.
ITS OFFICIAL, NALA PASSED HER 1ST LEVEL TRAINING CLASS. NOW WE CAN REGISTER HER WITH THE AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB S.T.A.R PUPPY PROGRAM. S.T.A.R stands for Socialization, Training, Activity, & Responsibility. We already signed her up for her next level training and she starts in a month.
So in a nutshell, both mommy and Nala finished their schooling in the same month!
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