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Tanner and His Need to Collect

Tanner and the plastic container

I swear I don’t give these things to Tanner just so I can take pictures. This was a cat’s food container and it was downstairs in a basement. So I’m on my laptop, looking around to see that all the dogs are behaving themselves. Which means my two because they’re still puppies and Mishka is 5 years old and well-behaved, and I see Tanner with the plastic bowl in his chops.

Tanner, my son’s slipper and the chew toy

Now the chew toy had been lying on the floor for days, but Tanner decided to collect things around the room. He wasn’t chewing on them, just…collecting them. Hoarding them.

Tanner, Max, and the slipper

And then of course if Tanner was getting his picture taken, Max wanted his picture taken also. Only Tanner wasn’t giving up his new found slipper for anything.

I took the slipper away from him and put it where it had been with its soul mate, but a few minutes later, Tanner had carried it back to his cot. Soooo, I put the slipper up. Then I watched as he sniffed at my son’s sneaker but it didn’t have the appeal that the slipper did.

Puppies will be puppies. Though it’s also the perfect training tool.

Have a super wonderful day and may you see the humor in the world like I do. Because sometimes that’s all you have. 🙂

(Note: Says me who was rushing to get Mishka off the carpet when she was throwing up, and hurry her outside while the puppies were excited and underfoot. She managed to throw up on the deck and I cleaned it up much more easily while the puppies wanted to get into it. It’s all an adventure in life.)

Terry

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Photography and Puppy Training

Jun10

Learning Down and Staying Down

The puppies don’t care for Down. They sit all the time, but Down is not their favorite command. Especially Max’s. I’m also training them to stay in place even if I leave the room for a few seconds. Normally, they would chase after me. But I’ve been doing this for a while, and I’m always surprised when they don’t follow me out of the room. So they’re getting much better.

I also have them Place like this when I’m preparing my meal so they’re not underfoot while I’m in the tiny kitchen. Max usually will get off once to check on me, even though he can see me. He’s really checking to see if I dropped anything for him. So it’s an ongoing process.

Max watching bag of treats on kitchen counter instead of watching me

Max is not watching me, like he’s supposed to be doing. He thinks if he watches the treat bag, it won’t get away from him. Or maybe, it will miraculously toss a treat to him. Silly dog.

Here they are, having turned from the direction of the kitchen to watch me. Which is what you want. They should be anticipating your command. When I fix their meals, I have them do the same. Stay on Place, Down. They have to stay there while I fill up their 2 kongs, often times searching for wherever they’ve rolled them earlier first, then I set one out quite a distance from the other. Then I fill up their water dish in the other room, and this is with their kongs sitting on the floor waiting for them to push around and leave a trail of their puppy food and devour it. And they stay put. It’s amazing.

We worked for a long time, twice a day to get to this point. Sometimes I take pictures of them to prolong the training and show them that I can do other things before I release them to eat their meals. But only by a minute or so. I need to wait longer. I don’t do anything mean to them to get them to do this either. It’s just patience and perseverance. For a long time, as soon as I moved to get Tanner’s kong, he jumped off Place. Every time I started to fill up the kongs, he jumped off Place. Max would stay. But Tanner was just too chow hungry to do it. So I kept returning him to Place over and over and over again. Eventually, he realized that if he stayed on Place, he got his food sooner. Or, that he wasn’t getting his food until he was on Place.

Max and Tanner from their POV

Often puppies will want to come to you if you get down to their level. So when I sat on the floor, it was a test. What they call a distraction. See if something really enticing will make them want to leave the place where they are.

Then it was placing the kongs on the floor that triggered him to bolt for his, or for Max’s because it was closer. But we kept working on it and now I can even motion to Place without saying a word. I can have them lie down with a downward motion of my hand without giving them a verbal command. (Most of the time. Sometimes Max won’t do it. But I’ve done this while I”m on the phone, and it’s great.) It can be tricky though. I tried moving my arms around, and that signaled Break! And they were off and running. lol

Training Max and Tanner to sit

I thought I had one of the lying down, waiting for their meal, but I didn’t. So here’s an earlier one of them learning to Place and Sit.

And they won’t budge until I release them when I say: Break! and motion for Tanner to go one way and Max to go the other. They almost always place themselves so that Max is on the left and Tanner is on the right. But a couple of times they’ve been reversed and they practically trip over each other while they’re running to get their food.

Tanner wanting to eat–it’s not time

Often when the puppies wake from a nap, they think it’s time to eat. It doesn’t matter when it is, it’s just…time.

Is it already hump day??? Garbage is out. Meal time is coming up. Are you ready for the day?

Back to writing!! Have a super great Wednesday!

Terry

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Really, Mom, I’m Jogging…

Jun7

Max: Mom, really, I’m just getting ready to jog. You can have the jogging board after me.

Max and the jogging board

Max: Really, I had a super hard work out. You probably weren’t watching. But I must’ve run three miles, at least. I was chasing rabbits, birds, butterflies. Just give me a moment. I ran so hard, my legs collapsed out from underneath me. You can have the jogging board as soon as I can get back on my feet.

Max the Rug on the jogging board

Tanner’s Turn?

Tanner: Max said it was my turn next. Can you tell him to move?

Thanks, Mom

Tanner: Thanks, Mom, for making him move. We can share.

Mom: Somehow I managed to get my 3 miles in even when the puppies wanted to exercise too.

And that’s my story!

Finished another bear, need to take a picture of it today, and have one more left to finish. Made over word count on Taming the Wild Cougar, but behind on Billionaire. However, I decided I needed a new, more dramatic opening. Sometimes I have to write a while before I can “see” it.

Have a super great Sunday! 🙂 <3

Terry

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The Computer is Back Up and Running!

Jun2

Morning sky and sun’s rays

I wanted to see how well the phone camera would work outside, so I took a picture of the sun’s rays and the clouds. I didn’t think it was bad if I wanted to just take the puppies out and capture a fun setting for…fun. I saw a beautiful sunset last night when I took the puppies out, but by the time I’d get them corralled back in the house, the sunset would have lost its beauty. So I will try to capture one on my phone tonight if it works out that we have a lovely one again tonight.

Max and Tanner helping with my manuscript

Max and Tanner brainstorming

Max and Tanner waiting for me to write the next scene

With my camera, I couldn’t have gotten such close-ups. The puppies were right on top of me. And of course as soon as I started trying to take pictures, they got even closer. The detail is amazing.

Max, the smaller version of a sheepdog

So what have the puppies come up with? That one of them should get the girl, and not some hot billionaire wolf. Even if the heroine’s a wolf. The problem is Max and Tanner are disagreeing about which of them should get the hot she-wolf. *sigh*

And that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 🙂 <3

Have a super great day!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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My Computer Crashed!

Jun1

And this is how I feel! Sticking tongue out at Dell for as many times as my computer has crashed for no apparent reason.

Just answering emails and such before I begin writing and hoping I didn’t lose anything on The Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing before it crashed. 🙁 I can’t tell because I had to open up on my laptop and my last autosave would be on my PC.

But it’s going to be a beautiful day anyway, just hoping my SIL can figure out how to fix it remotely tonight after he gets off work. Poor thing.

I have been making some major strides with the puppies. I’ve been taking them outside off leash. I have with Max, but started doing it with Tanner. No fenced in yard. I should say I have walls on two sides, but the rest of the yard is unfenced.

And I took down the fence that divides the family room so they’d stay with me in one part of the room and if they get up from a nap and begin to roam, I can take them out. So far, no accidents. It’s nice to get my house back to looking somewhat like it did before I brought the puppies home. 🙂 Tanner is sleeping where the fence used to be. Max is using the arm of the chair as a headrest. Both puppies do it. Doesn’t it look uncomfortable?

Picture was taken with phone. Amazing detail. Don’t you love Max’s coiffure? It looks like he had an attack with static electricity.

Have a super great day! Off to get my word count in! 🙂

Terry

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Sometimes Change Can Be Good!

May31

Max and Tanner posing for the picture.

I have to say that I was having trouble getting the new smart phone (just because it’s smart, doesn’t mean the owner is just as savvy) to take the picture. The puppies were amazingly good about sitting still for Mommy to try and try, then look up to see what she was doing wrong, then try again. What really gets their attention is the little tunes it makes when it takes the picture. But I really was amazed to see the fur detail on the puppies without any kind of photo enhancement. And the colors were amazing. Max is white but has a little bit of tan on his back. Tanner is black with both tan paws and beard and white streaks on his “bangs” and his chest is white. Usually when I take a picture of them in the house with my canon, Max turns beige. So it really did a terrific job on color and detail.

This was taken after the puppies came in from the wet grass–where their noses have to plow through looking for the right spot.

This morning, Tanner got hold of one of my shoes after I took him outside. Note the determined “This is Mine” look on his fuzzy little face. Now, just to clarify, Tanner never chews on my shoes, he just loves to grab them up and then wants to play tug-of-war with them. I tell him to “Drop it,” “Leave it,” but sometimes the quickest way to relieve him of my shoe is to just pick him up and he drops it. So see? Sometimes Mommy is still smarter than puppy.

I’m not one of these folks who have to have an upgrade every time some new technology is out. So it’s been two years since my daughter convinced me I needed a smart phone instead of my flip phone, and it’s been wonderful. Didn’t take great pictures, but it was nice to have in a pinch. What was best was the Wifi so that when I was on trips, I could catch up on emails and FB. And I love that I can use Google maps because my daughter and SIL live in a new development, and my Megellan didn’t show their location.

Plus, it’s nice having everything in one device. And I probably would have had it until it up and died on me. I was perfectly content.

So I’m out with the ladies at the wolf center in New Mexico and one of my friends has a newer phone, and she shows me hers and the pictures it can take. Well, I’m sold. My has gone through 3 upgrades in 2 years, and I don’t use it enough to use half of the amount of time I could use on my phone, so I’m actually saving $33.00 a month on my service, and I received a notepad for free, and that was listed at $100, so in a year between my monthly bill savings and my new notepad, the upgrade phone and all the costs would be free. Plus the picture taking capability? Well worth it to me. And lots of fun. 🙂

🙂

So last night I was messing around with adding FB and my email and wanted to see about the pictures. The detail is amazing! Really excited because sometimes I just don’t have the camera with me, and yet I’d love to take a good picture. When I’m autographing books in stores now, I can just take a picture of them with my cell camera and not have to drag my camera around.

Sometimes change is the pits. It takes forever to learn everything. Sometimes, it’s so past time.

Have a great Sunday! I’ve been working on bears for 2 days, and neglected the book, so need to make up for it today. 🙂

Terry

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The Puppies and the Mystery Beasts

May26

Storms and more storms and then…

Tanner to Max: What do you see?

Max to Tanner: Not sure what it is. What do you think?

Tanner to Max: A really strange looking dog?

Max to Tanner: I don’t know but they’re multiplying. Maybe we should just stay inside and watch out the window.

Tanner to Max: Okay.

Do you know what they saw? Turkey vultures. A skunk was dead in the yard, maybe due to all the flooding we had. In any event, the puppies sure wondered what the animals were out in the yard. But they were content to just watch.

Sent off SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble and as much rain as we had yesterday, I felt I needed a wetsuit. Finishing up edits on She-Wolf and then will read one last time and turn it in. Then it’s time to get to work on the Billionaire book and some guest blogs for the release of SEAL Wolf Hunting!

Hope you have a great Tuesday! I hear we’re not getting rain for a day or two!

Terry

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Fun for Memorial Day? Or the Same O’ Same O’?

May22

Well, I’ve got edits for SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble and waiting on a beta reader to see if I need to change anything more on She-Wolf, so that’s what I’m doing. Working, and working and working.

But today, at 6:30, at BN, Waco, we’re having a multiple author contest, so that will be my big exciting thing to do.

I’ve got to get back to edits, but I had to take some morning pictures too. It’s wet out and the snails were having a gathering of the clan.

Then I tried to take a macro portrait of the puppies. They move too much. But I did get one of them where they didn’t when I was teaching them down before they got their morning meal! Bad hair day or cute and scruffy? The puppies were out in the wet grass before I fed them, and they tend to nose through the wet grass, so they don’t look half as cute as when I brushed them all up last night. Will have to try this again later. 🙂

Okay, back to writing. Have a super great, wonderful Memorial Day weekend. And if you’re in town, drop by Barnes and Noble for chances at all kinds of prizes, and I’m giving away free copies of The Vampire…In My Dreams to anyone who purchases a book at the store. (Or if you’re bringing in books to have me autograph also).

Woohoo, TGIF!!!

Are you doing anything special?

Terry

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Okay, Waking at Weird Hours is Getting…

Apr22

….Old.

The puppies got me up at 2:30 am. HAD to go out. And they did. I take them out later at night, and they still had to go out at 2:30 am. Next morning, it was 4 am. This morning, 4:45. Now, when I was working at a job in town, getting up early like that was essential because I was working full time AND writing full time. So I’d have to get up early, write, promo, edit, get ready to go, and hit the road. During lunch break, I’d catch up on emails, sometimes edit or write. Then I’d go home and spend all the rest of the night working on THE BOOK.

One nice thing about writing full time? I don’t have to get up that early unless I want to. I’m always an early riser. Can’t sleep in unless I’m sick. BUT…then came the puppies.

Love them. But this sudden need to go out in the middle of the night is getting OLD fast. So I’m rushing outside with them, and they start eating the bugs around the lamp. IF you have to go to the bathroom, you have to go to the bathroom. No bug eating.

They came in and played with each other and now they have crashed. And I’m tired.

Mountains of Clouds

I have a million things to do today, and I can’t even think of one of them. 🙂

But I did proof the print book for Phantom Fae, and made changes and waiting for it to come back from review again so I can proof it one last time and approve it.

And now it’s time to work on one of my new projects, but I think I’ll need a nap first.

Garbage is out, plan to spend the day cleaning the house, and I think I’ll put an audiobook on while I do it! 🙂 <3

Have a great Wednesday!

Terry

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Puppies in Macro Photography

Mar15

Max sleeping on Tanner’s neck

I’m certain Tanner has eyes. I’ve seen them on occasion, but rarely. Yesterday I pulled his hair back, trying to get a picture of it. And by the way, I do try to brush out his whiskers, but he’s still JAWS when it comes to the brush getting near his nose. The hairs are unruly curls, but that makes Tanner, Tanner.

Okay, I’m BEHIND on word count on She-Wolf, but that’s because I spent ALL day yesterday working on taxes. Really, I need to be better organized. Then my daughter mentioned that if I had energy efficient improvements made to the house–like a new water heater and the windows, (which truly have been great–no ice on the INSIDE of windows), and that means finding all the receipts. In the future, I need to really be better organized.

🙂 <3 Okay, working some on word count, and then back to taxes!

Have a lovely tax-free Sunday!

Terry
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Tag Archive | puppies

Tanner and His Need to Collect

Photography and Puppy Training

Really, Mom, I’m Jogging…

The Computer is Back Up and Running!

My Computer Crashed!

Sometimes Change Can Be Good!

The Puppies and the Mystery Beasts

Fun for Memorial Day? Or the Same O’ Same O’?

Okay, Waking at Weird Hours is Getting…

Puppies in Macro Photography