Happy Six Months!

Happy 6 months Stoney buddy ♥

A photo of Stoney on his tie-down. He is looking at the camera, which is slightly lower than him.

These past few months with Stoney have been amazing. Many lessons have been learned. He has taught me patience...

Stoney in a play bow, next to a tree in the backyard. 

 How to have fun...

The photo is out of focus, but you can clearly see Stoney, with his ears flapping in the breeze, his front two paws of the ground, as he chases down a toy.

 How to accept the mistakes and try again...

A beautiful picture of Stoney, looking intently off into the distance, to the right. His black coat is shining in the golden afternoon light.

 To accept reality...

Again, another photo of Stoney on his tie down, looking into the camera. His bed and toy are in the background.

and to love without limits, as forever isn't promised ♥

Growing Up Fast

Stoney on his tie down, looking at the camera and "smiling". His nose is sharply in focus.

Stoney is growing up fast. He no longer sports a coat of fluffy baby fur, but a glistening, shedding big boy coat. Despite growing a lot in comparison to when I picked him up, Stoney is still rather small. He still wears the smallest size blue cape, which he wears when he is working. He is learning all that he needs to though and impresses many with his maturity.

Sick Puppy

Our meeting was canceled (referring to August 7th), but no worries, we were in the area anyways so we did some "heavy duty" obedience in Target, which Stoney had no trouble with. Stoney is still his happy little self, getting goofier by the day, but today he started to feel yucky and has an upset stomach. I for see rice and beef in his future! He is not happy about that one.

Long Time, No Post

School starts tomorrow, so I will no longer be able to spend all day with my little guy. He has become more and more attached to me and wants to please. Every morning when I wake up he's sitting at my beside, making sure I'm okay. He never jumps on the bed, doesn't whine, just sits at the bedside and waits for me.  I can't even begin to imagine what his relationship is going to be like with his handler. We have been on lots of exposures this summer and I am becoming less worried about him having an accident! Stoney and I even went to two malls in one day and two other very big stores and he didn't bat an eye. He's even "busying" on whatever surface I ask him too. We have a puppy meeting tonight, where we will practice obedience with heavy traffic as a distraction. I don't expect him to have any issues what-so-ever. Stoney completed a four week obedience course at the school and was great. We did lots of self control exercises, and he was awesome! He has so much self control and focus for a four month old! I have made many "resolutions" for the new school year, so I guess I can make being more diligent with my blog one of them!

Stoney with his new Nylabone toys!

Dog Burrito

Lots of pictures.
My mom is babysitting a three year old little girl this week, who has recently come to the conclusion that Stoney needs more beds than he already has. She spread my brother's power ranger blanket on the ground and said "The boy dog can lay here!" So, we moved the tie down over there and "boy dog" stood there, watching me and trying to figure out what was going on. One blanket wasn't enough, he had to be covered! So here comes the Tinkerbell blanket. Then the Christmas blanket. Then the hand towel I use to clean him off. Then the other blanket that happened to be laying out. Now that he is as snug as a bug, "he needs a book". So she read Stoney a book, left it by his side, and scurried off to get him a baby doll to snuggle with. Once she walked away, Stoney shook the blankets off and decided that being a dog burrito just wasn't the job for him..but laying on his huge pile of blankets and showing them off to "the girl dog", who didn't get any blankets, was easy enough.

Catching The Z's

Little Stoney wasn't feeling too good yesterday and had a sick tummy, so we stayed home again. Who knows what his little puppy self got into to make him sick. So he had to eat rice for dinner last night and breakfast this morning. He wasn't really sure how to eat it, but he made sure there wasn't much left over. This morning he went to the vet to get some shots, one of which he had previously had a reaction to. So he got some Benedryl and we went off to Target for a couple items. He was such a good boy at the vet, so I bought him a new Nylabone.

Stoney's new BACON FLAVORED Nylabone. Well, he has a smaller
one so I bought him the biggest size they had. :)

After everybody got done oh-ing and ah-ing at the PUPPY in the store that looks just like Poppy and Miley and Joe Shmoe and that one black dog. When you walk into a store with a puppy, they either want to tell you all about the pets they've had in the past two hundred years or they just stop their cart and stare at him. So we made it out of the store without someone stealing the adorable black puppy. On the car ride home, he was sleeping like a rock. The Benedryl was taking it's toll. One positive was that he didn't change position three hundred times during a thirty minute ride! So he slept for several hours, and then suddenly became wide awake at dinner time. I wonder why? ;)

Church Dog

Stoney has been staying home for most of the week. We had an obedience class at the school on Thursday and he was a super star. I'm amazed at how well behaved he is for a DOG let alone a young puppy. We also had a puppy raiser meeting on Monday, which was great. He was one of the most well behaved dogs there, sleeping through the whole meeting. He acted like he'd been to a million restaraunts, but it was his first time at a restraunt. Today, Stoney went to church for the first time and slept through the whole two hour service. The loud praise and worship, shouting, clapping, nothing fazed the little guy. After words we rushed outside to busy then came back in so he could be mobbed by everyone. He was so sweet with the toddlers, enjoying them more so than older kids. Tail stepped on? Pulled? Eyes poked? No problem. He lay there and kept on wagging his tail, occasionally rolling over onto his stomach for a belly rub and sometimes even standing up to snuggle with a toddler before coming back and laying down next to me. He never jumped, lunged or mouthed anyone! I was very proud. He's tired, despite him sleeping through service!