Thanksgiving Fun

Pogo gave scooter and wagon rides to my family:






























After dinner, my cousin tried brushing Pogo's teeth (video):

More fun ways to exercise fluffy dogs

Pogo has a new sled dog buddy! At the dog park this week, we met a doodle from Chicagoland named Summer and her owner Annie. We harnessed up our dogs together and took turns having the two dogs pull us on a bike. How fun!





Here are three videos showing our dogs bikejoring together.




And below is another way we've found to wear out Pogo.

Dog pulling sports

Check out these four videos of our dog pulling activities.

A. Dog scootering: (i) the gear, (ii) the action!



B. Wagon pulling: (i) hauling veggies, (ii) hauling me!





We're looking forward to trying skijoring this winter.

Happy Trails to Kaylah (Daisy)

What a beautiful day! Kaylah did well biking again. I later trimmed her nails and groomed her face, butt, and feet. She was patient for all of that.





Tonight, neighborhood friends adopted Kaylah and renamed her Daisy. Look at how well Daisy's curly hair matches her new mom's curly hair. It wasn't easy for my husband to take this photo of them, because our dogs Bear and Terra kept trying to sneak into the shot.

Congrats Daisy! It's been fun fostering you. We look forward to seeing you around the neighborhood. If you ever need a pet-sitter, you know whom to call.

Kaylah's settling in

Here's a video of Kaylah biking with my husband again this morning:


Just now while I was sitting at the computer, Kaylah plopped her head in my lap for a snuggle.

I now have confirmation that she's not deaf. She was in another room, and I called her name and whistled, and she came trotting over to me. Excellent.

Great News!

A couple of applications have been submitted for Kaylah, and hopefully she'll get to go home with a family soon.

I crated Kaylah in my bedroom today while I was at work in case she had more diarrhea. Turned out that she didn't, but she willingly went into the crate and quietly laid down in it. What a good girl!

She's starting to display more of a personality. Today for the first time she came up to me a few times to say hello. When I let her out of the crate this afternoon, she play-bowed to my toy poodle Terra and barked at her to try to get her to play. And she briefly chewed on a few dog toys tonight.

Kaylah is now sitting more reliably on command with a combined vocal+hand signal. She's getting better at the sit-stay command, too. And tonight, she pulled our red wagon around the block outside. I later tried to see if she would sit in the wagon while my dog Bear pulled it, but she would have none of that and jumped right out. One downside of the day: she pooped in our living room again tonight, but at least it wasn't diarrhea anymore.
Tonight as it's getting close to bedtime, Kaylah went right into her crate and curled up. She seems very cozy in there.
I see many poodles and doodles online that need new families. I wish that more of them were looking for new homes in the Madison area, because I've heard from multiple other families here that would like to adopt a dog like Kaylah. If you are interested in adopting a dog like her, keep checking Petfinder, because Fluffy Dog Rescue and other organizations regularly have poodles and doodles to rehome. In addition, the Pefinder classifieds section and Craigslist both have poodles that families want to rehome directly. Here are a couple more photos from Kaylah's adventures today.

Kaylah's day

Tonight before bed, Kaylah had her first wagon pulling lesson. She caught on quite quickly and pulled it around our condo's parking garage twice. As with most dogs learning to pull a wagon, she is bothered by the shafts that bump into her on the sides, but our dog Bear learned to tolerate that after a few days.

Check out this video of Kaylah in action!


Fluffy Dog Rescue brought us two big bags of grain-free dog food for Kaylah, so her new family will be well-supplied for several weeks. We had success tonight feeding her remaining pills of the day hidden inside sausage chunks.

Kaylah had diarrhea last night in our living room. Today during lunch, I noticed her about to go again and rushed her outside just in time. Our own dog Bear is 100% housetrained except when he has diarrhea and can't control it. I'm assuming/hoping the same is true with Kaylah, because otherwise she's done all her business outdoors. Her new family will want to train her to signal when she needs to go out, which will help in situations like this.

We had visitors over tonight and Kaylah behaved well. When she begged at the dinner table, we tied her up on the other side of the room. She lay down quietly there while we ate and then enjoyed a walk around the block with us afterwards. She chewed on a bone this evening for the first time that we've noticed. Looks like she's starting to get more comfortable here.