Real stories, shared with love

Hi, Jake, Today makes a year since I drove to your house and picked up Hope to bring home to Oregon. She is now my cuddle bug, snuggle bug, love bug, stink bug, doodle bug, etc. I think she is about 13 lb now. We get to the beach most days and Hope runs off leash if there are no people around. She loves exploring the rocks at low tide and running to the bottom of the bluffs and exploring amongst all the driftwood. I hope all is well with you and yours and just wanted to thank you again. God is good and I know this was his plan for all of us.

It’s Dan D. from Reno reaching out to let you know Lucy is doing well and turning into a great little girl, and we love her more every day. She has only barked a couple times, and that was when our lawn guy was in “her” yard. She sleeps on the bed with us and has never had accident. In the picture she is sitting on a patio chair in her new walking collar. She loves to go for walks with her brother Sam. Hope you don’t mind an occasional update. We are grateful we found you and Lucy.

Hello Jake, I hope you and your family are doing well. I wanted to share a few photos of Ollie. He has been such a blessing to us. Hope you got our small thank you package. Have not taken him out on the kayak yet but he has had on his life jacket, and has been on the kayak in the garage. I am sure once we are allowed to go out more people will be asking me where I got him from do you want me to let me know about your puppies or adult dogs? He will have his first vet visit this Friday.

Hope everyone at Songcatcher is doing well and enjoying the spring weather! Baxter turned a year old this week and I thought I'd send a new picture. Looks pretty comfortable, doesn't he? He was excited to get a 6 pack of his favorite Lamb Chop squeaky toys, and a handsome new collar. He got a new chew bone too, but it's hard to tell if he really enjoys those since what he mostly does is run around looking for hiding places for them....over and over again! None of his hiding places would fool anyone because he finishes up by dragging blankets or pillows over them. Impossible to miss the little treasure pyramids he builds, but I do my best to pretend.

I want to give you an update on Ottis aka Magic, and ask you for an address seeing I would like to send you a little thank you. He is sleeping all night in his create and comes in my bed in the morning to snuggle. (no training needed) He has rode in the bike basket a few times and did great. He is wonderful on leash (no training needed) just working on him sitting at coroners and went I stop to sit too. He got the hang of the dogie door the first day and has had no accidents in the house so I do not need any barriers to block him from the carpet areas. He is so smart and has been adjusting so well we can't thank you enough. He is a bit skittish of my parents but I make him interact so I am sure he will come around. As you stated he can care less about toys and he is not food motivated when training him, but loves his praise. He was so funny when he first saw himself in the mirror is his very vain and wanted to play with himself. It is been so fun watch him have new experiences and us both learning on the way. We just love him so much. I only hope he will be OK once we can get him around people more when he is on his walks he now stops to barks at people or dogs passing by but when I tell him it is OK he settles down. Ottis is getting the sitting and staying down too. He teeth look great I waiting for his toothbrush and toothpaste to come in is he used to have his teeth cleaned and ears cleaned? I just concerned seeing we are home all the time he dose not get separation anxiety but we have been trying to leave him along and thus far he has done great. He goes into his create during the day but I have to tell my daughter to let him be on his own they both want to be with each out all the time. I want to thank you once again he has brought such joy to our home in this darken days.