Welcome Copernicus!!!!!!

[Forum Administrator]

Excellent

On a side note, he's already learned to "sit" I taught him in about 5 minutes. *beams with pride* Obedience competitions here we come!

[velvetfuzzbutt]

oh wow that is a really cute pappillion! I just love his name.

And as someone who truely believes ALL dogs need training, I am VERY happy to see you are starting now. looking forward to watching him grow and mature.

[Forum Administrator]

Thanks Dresden. I'm excited to see him grow up too. I can't wait till he's an adult! Honestly I dont much care for puppies, kittens, or kits. When Fugue was a kit all I wanted for him was to grow up. Now that he's older I dont miss a day of his "kithood"

We are working hard to socialize Copee the bets we can:

To water
To ferrets
To our cat
To people of all shapes and sizes
To the vacuum cleaner, radio, etc
To the car
To other dogs
To a variety of toys
Etc

We want to be sure to raise a well adjusted dog.

[luxuriousferret]

aww! congrats!!! he is soooo cute!

[cloudtickler]

Giuli-- I'd add "plastic bags" to that list. My dog was a rescue, so we went through a lot of de-sensitizing to several different new objects to him. Fluffing out grocery bags to shake out water was enough to cause submissive peeing from him for a few days until we could get it under control.

I know not a lot of dogs have that prob. But it's kind of a scary thing for them, even if they don't submissively pee.

On a side note: My Shadow has the weirdest fear of kitchen sponges.

[Forum Administrator]

Oh! Good idea! Thanks for the tip.

My ex-b/f had a lab mix that was scared of:

Spanish
Stairs
Green Beans
Squeeky toys
Having a leash clipped onto his collar (but he did fine if we'd clip the leash to a harness)
Thunder

[luxuriousferret]

Nov 24, 2008 9:57:15 GMT -5 Forum Administrator said:

Oh! Good idea! Thanks for the tip.

My ex-b/f had a lab mix that was scared of:

Spanish
Stairs
Green Beans
Squeeky toys
Having a leash clipped onto his collar (but he did fine if we'd clip the leash to a harness)
Thunder

My dog LOVES sueaky toys, and (only occasionaly given) green beans!!! I havent found any scared-like taht kind of scared before!!!! spanish... good thing he didnt like in Mexica, or Spain...

[amyandfuzzies6]

Copernicus is absolutely adorable!! Hubby and I used to talk about "adding a puppy to the family SOMEDAY" but Nosferretu follows me around the house and sits by me just like a puppy:) I think I've had ferrets too long and they've convinced me I don't NEED a dog anymore - not that I could manage a puppy AND the 7 ferts LOL.

Congrats and have fun!!

[animalsgetrevenge]

My Boston mix, Ajax isn't afraid of, but rather has an intense hate for anything that "measures"...

That includes:
Measuring tapes
Rules and yardsticks
Soft measuring tapes for sewing

If she hears someone across the house using one of those stiff measuring tapes for construction, She freaks out on them!

She is pretty much crazy!

[bellaferrets]

Copernicus is ADORABLE. Does he have puppy breath? Wednesday is 2 yrs old and still has puppy breath. Its the cutest thing :-p

A few things to get him used to?
*Play with his feet and toes so he's not afraid of nail trimming

*collar,leash,and harness? Sally wore a collar as a baby but ended up getting her nose stuck in Wednesday's and none of our dogs wear collars. Now, if we put a collar/leash on her, she starts flipping out and screaming. She wont walk on it, so i have to carry her if we go out to the stores together :/

[tsslilsis]

YES! PLEASE!! Make sure he is fine with having his paws touched.. Touch them constantly!!!!!!!

We started fostering Skip when he was about 8 1/2 months old (Adopted him a few months later) and he to this day doesn't like having his paws touched, as much as we have tried to help him accept it. We have to cut his nails when he is asleep and dreaming..

I am glad you are socializing him. My cousins dog is small and my cousin was in charge of her from day one and never socialized her (She got her when she was about 6 weeks old).. She is tiny and thinks she is dominate over all dogs. She is HORRIBLE with other dogs. She is only partly okay with my dogs because they see each other often, but she growls at any dogs she's not seen before.

Also make sure he is okay with having objects in his ears (For cleaning).. Dogs who aren't exposed to that sometimes won't let their ears be messed with.

He is a cutey and I'm excited to *watch* him grow.

-~Ketlin

[animalsgetrevenge]

Yes, and make sure he gets used to all sorts of grooming since he could potentially have quite a lot of hair. Get him used to brushing, scissors, the hair dryer too. Nails are super important, as everyone else has said.

[nwheather]

Congrats on your new puppys! So cute! I love the video of them playing!

[Forum Administrator]

Well its been about 3 weeks since we brought Copernicus home. He is adjusting well to the family. He's very "in your face" and I feel bad because the cat and ferrets get kinda sick of him. Fugue likes playing with Copee, but after a while its like "get the heck away from me!" . He's learning to be respectful of little old De (who will be 9 next month! Ah! She's getting old!). The cat is even warming up to him! They were playing the other day, but only for a moment before Zeph hissed at him and bolted off. Mizu is still adjusting to the puppy. He doesnt viciously attack Copee anymore, but he will bite Copee if I'm not looking.

Potty training is going alright. Tim is with Copernicus all day (he's currently unemployed) and I take copee out to potty at 3 am every night (boo hiss). He'll be doing a "puppy manners" class this January at my work, so we are excited about that.

He's growing like a weed and he's such a good boy. We are having a blast socializing him and we can't wait to get him involved in some competitive "doggy sports" once he is a year old.

[bigsis7]

What no new pictures? Sounds like he's doing great!!