Hunter Happiness!

Video of hunter trying not to fall asleep... but eventually giving in.

2007-06-24T22:52:00.000-05:00

Hunter is 1 years old!

2007-06-24T21:40:00.000-05:00

Hunters been a great pup. His favorite things include- chasing fire flies, chewing on his rope, chasing bunnies, sleepin', and eating underwear. He's been about 45 pounds since November 2007. So he's pretty much stopped growing (physically that is).

Here's some pics of Hunter with his aeroplane/yoda ears and his tail-eaten lobster toy.

our little model puppy

2007-03-18T00:19:00.001-05:00

hunter's been in hiding... now he's big!

2007-02-24T23:18:00.000-06:00

mmmmm bone. does a body good.

Hunter and his winter coat

Hunter trying to get treats out of his kong. long video full of cuteness.

2006-12-24T00:12:00.000-06:00

Hunter likes to sleep on my feet.

2006-12-24T00:10:00.000-06:00

Hunters xmas stocking

2006-12-24T00:08:00.000-06:00

Pics of Hunter's trip to the park

2006-12-19T21:25:00.000-06:00

and no he's not sad...

Hunter playing in the woods

2006-12-19T21:23:00.000-06:00

Hunter tricks n games video

2006-12-19T21:13:00.000-06:00

just some hunter chillin' pics...

2006-12-19T21:10:00.000-06:00

he's getting big...

2006-12-01T23:35:00.000-06:00

random pics...

i'm planning on taking some hunter in the snow pics this sunday coming up... maybe even a video :)

dog fair

2006-11-13T10:24:00.000-06:00

My mom and I went to the dog fair at the marriott west yesterday. We saw 3 shar peis that were gorgeous!! Rosie if you're reading this lisa says hi!

My mom got hunter a new toy. A wrench! very cute!

couch privileges

2006-11-13T10:19:00.000-06:00

Hunter just turned 5 months old on 11/8/2006- and now has couch privileges. He's so cute when he cuddles up next to us!

Sorry we've been gone for a while...

2006-10-29T12:35:00.003-06:00

Hunter got neutered on Friday 10/27. He's doing very very good. We paid extra and found a vet that does laser surgery. The incision area is only about 1 inch long- other surgerys have 2 incisions about double that size. He was back to his regular self the next day- and hasn't been picking at the stitches at all. What a good boy!

Hunter at 18/19 wks.

2006-10-29T12:35:00.002-06:00

Hunter and a "puppy freak out"

2006-10-29T12:35:00.001-06:00

Hunter playing with his crocodile toy

2006-10-29T12:35:00.000-06:00

Hunter and daddy practicing sit and lay down.

2006-10-01T14:58:00.001-05:00

The cutest thing about teaching him how to lay down: We are teaching him the word down and using the hand signal (moving a flat hand down). It's cute cuz before hunter lays down his paw does the hand signal too.

hunter with the squeeky hotdog that grandma and grandpa got him.

2006-10-01T14:58:00.000-05:00

Hunter with his squeeky chocolate donut

2006-10-01T14:56:00.000-05:00

Hunter with his purple/green ball.

2006-10-01T14:53:00.000-05:00

We got 3 of these little balls as part of a wendy's kids meal. He only gets to play with them when we're watching him (since they're so small and are easy to rip to shreds). All of them are different colors- blue/yellow, red/blue, and this purple/green one. We can throw all of them at once- and he always goes for the purple/green one. I guess we know what his favorite colors are :)

hunter looking outside

2006-10-01T14:32:00.000-05:00

Hunter loves to watch the kids outside playing. He'll bark once or twice- just to let them know he's there- in hopes that they'll come let him play too.

it's an update! wow!

2006-09-22T20:01:00.000-05:00

Well last tuesday was hunters 2nd day of puppy kindergarten. It's amazing how much better he was- he actually calmed down a little bit when we were listening to instructions. And he played nice with the other puppys.

We're working on learning to learn down, Teaching him what "good boy" means, and working on teaching his name. Pretty sure he's got the name down!

I'll post more pictures soon. Things have been going great- Hunter's at about 22 lbs right now (we got him when he was 14 lbs).

1st day of "puppy kindergarten"

2006-09-12T23:15:00.000-05:00

We got a copy of Patricia McConnell's book "Puppy Primer." Which I would recommend to anyone getting a puppy.

Hunter was jazzed the whole time- It was hard to get him to calm down. He wanted to go meet all the new people and play with all the other puppies.

They went over the proper way to teach a dog the command "sit." Don't push down his butt- he'll just think that everytime mommy touches my butt- I get a treat! The correct way is to have them follow a treat- from chest level to above their reach- when they put their butt down- then give them the treat. When they start to understand what they're doing in order to get the treat- say sit right before moving your hand upwards. They'll learn the word and the visual command of your hand as it moves upwards- to mean sit.

A little bit of play time- Hunter is a bully. He's just too jazzed- and he likes to dominate and jump on other dogs. After the trainer worked with him for a while- he was doing good. I have a feeling that taking to "puppy playgroup" at the dog den may have pushed back his progress. On the webpage of the dog den it says that the trainer at puppy playgroup would make sure that the puppies played well- and learned how to play nice. The trainer at the dog den never mentioned anything was wrong- we just thought he liked to play a little rough. Too rough- not good.

Trainer went over the commant "come." Basically- start giving the dog a smell of some good treats- say his name and "come." Then turn around and run- while running make fun noises and claps so that he follows. When you stop give him the treat (5 total, one at a time) and give him lots of praise.

I really enjoy our training. The training is at "lucky dog daycare" and the trainers are from http://dogsbestfriendtraining.com

hunter playing with his bone and "the hunter crawl"

2006-09-12T23:14:00.000-05:00

new pics!!!

2006-09-12T23:05:00.000-05:00

13 weeks old- he's a growing. We got him and he was aprox 14 lbs. He's now 22 lbs. Just think- full size he's going to be 50-55 lbs.

misc puppy-goodness

2006-09-05T00:46:00.000-05:00

to a great friend...

2006-08-31T00:31:00.000-05:00

odds n ends

2006-08-31T00:25:00.000-05:00

Here's a couple pics from the last couple of days:

this next one looks like he's saying "mommy, stop takin' my picture"

this next one is one of my favorites of all time (*psst* mom can you print this one out for me)

and one of a happy "daddy"

Day 7

2006-08-24T23:09:00.000-05:00

1 week. It's amazing how much Hunter has accomplished in 1 week. At first he was absolutely afraid of the stairs- now he goes up and down. I'll have to do a video of him on the stairs- he's almost too small for the stairs.

Hunter also is very close to perfecting "sit". Although he does know to sit to get his leash put on and taken off when we go outside. It amazes me how smart he is.

Today was a big day for us- on his training for staying at home. BJ came home today and there was no barking. There was nothing changed from when we left. The answer was a banana. We read on http://www.drjwv.com (a shar pei specialists website) to put a banana in a kong and freeze it. We left at 11:30a, when BJ came home for lunch he was still working on it (keep in mind our friend terri came over for a couple hours in between with her son, nate). But still... we're going to be buying a lot of banana's.

now to the fun- here's a couple video's.

1. Hunter chasing his tail

2. Hunter playing with his boomerang, and what happens when Hunter hears that Daddy is home.

Day 6

2006-08-24T23:02:00.000-05:00

Today was hunters first storm (well with us anyways). It was a bad storm- even a little bit of hail. He paced a bit-but he was a real trooper.

I couldn't be happier with "our little man"

Day 5

2006-08-23T23:29:00.000-05:00

Here are 2 pics that grandma michelle took of hunter while she was doggy-sitting while we were at the brewers game.

and one from after we got home:

Day 4

2006-08-22T00:55:00.000-05:00

Hunter and I (megan) went to our friend, Terri's house in stoughton, wi before I(megan) had to work at 4pm. They have a huge fenced in backyard-Hunter had a blast. Terri, Matt, and their 4 yr old boy, Nate were there to play. Nate was afraid of the puppy at first-since the last time he met a dog he had gotten biten on the face. Hunter changed his mind about puppies. Hunters first good deed :)

Here are the pics- taken by Terri and Nate. Since I forgot my camera

Videos from Day 2

2006-08-20T22:23:00.000-05:00

Videos from Day 2- cuz i'm forgetful like that.

Hunter chewing on his bone:

Hunter attacking his pillow bed and then curling up to go to sleep:

day 3

2006-08-20T22:05:00.000-05:00

Well today Hunter got to have mommy and daddy to himself all day. BJ had the day off. All 3 of us went to michaels frozen custard and sat outside. We had burgers and Hunter had a small dish of Michael's special "K9" ice cream treat. We also found out that Hunter lives for strangers. He's soooo happy when he meets new people, he gives them tons and tons of puppy kisses. It was a good socialization exercise- he realized that not everyone wants to meet him- and got to practice watching people walk away.

Afterwards we went to Petsmart to buy some puppy vitamins and an additional kong toy. Everyone wanted to meet Hunter- they were pulled in by the puppy wrinkle cuteness. We got home- and relaxed for the rest of the night.

Here are some pics of what a goof Hunter is while he sleeps. Silly boy.

ready for the cuteness...

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Hunter playing with his football!

2006-08-19T14:38:00.000-05:00

Day 2

2006-08-19T13:57:00.000-05:00

Hunter slept great for a "first night"- until about 5am- when he decided it was time for everyone to get up. 7am I(meg) rolled out of bed, and we went to play- so that daddy could get some sleep before work.

We went to Mounds to get a collar and lead so that we could play outside- cuz at 7am Hunter was just a bundle of energy.

Went to the vet for the first time. Got distemper shot. Hunter was such a trooper- but then again I don't think he knew he got a shot since he was distracted with a yummy treat.

We've just been playing all day- Hunter will be get to meet grandma later today.

Here's some puppy lovin' pics. The last one makes me melt- that the "take a picture to send to daddy- cuz we miss him" shot.

First day home.

2006-08-19T13:30:00.000-05:00

We drove down to muscatine, ia (about 3.5 hour drive) to pick up Hunter. We had a list of names in mind (capone and tito were sounding good to me). On our trip in the car- the hubby thought of Hunter. When we got there-- yeah, definatly Hunter. He's named in memory of Hunter S Thompson.

Here's a couple shots of him at the breeder.

On our way home he was afraid at first- but slept about 3/4 of the way. His favorite way sleeping was either propped against me or laying on top of my hand.

He got home and walked right into his crate. He loved it. He did really good for his first day home. Although the stairs are something we'll have to master another day- right now the stairs are very scary.