The Chronicles of Bear

[Rodnok1]

Power nap.

[Big bob]

Damn poor puppy prison.

[Rodnok1]

Yes I keep my Tasmanian Devil in a cage when he sleeps. He's such a spaz won't settle down otherwise. He's getting closer to nap on bed with me, soon enough he'll be hogging the bed.

[Rodnok1]

He's getting big...

[Rodnok1]

Bear doing well, biting is getting better thankfully.
47 lbs last I checked.
Turning into a guard dog already barking at strange noises.
He found an overdrive gear so his top speed is approaching Ludacris speed now.
Decided to try and bite holes in yard cart tires, vacuum, leaf rake, steel posts, garden hose.. Ok pretty much everything beside me. Teething in full swing, found a baby tooth the hard way the other day.
Teaching him some agility stuff already, picking it up pretty quickly.
He decided the sprayer on hose which he was afraid of 2 weeks ago was now a signal to go bat shit crazy and attack the water spraying. He's learning to dig fox holes in the yard and then play in the mud when it rains.
Need to make him or buy a rain hood as hard rain in his ears last night really bothered him. He learned what the umbrella was for.
Still taking him out couple times a week to socialize, getting alot more comfortable with loud noises and lots of action.
Few pics from the last couple of weeks. First one I call Bear signal...

[99 pewtercoupe]

He will grow into those ears 😁

[ThePirate]

Looks great.

[Onebadcad]

Looking good, and remember, a doggie like that can never have too many chew toys.
Our Dolly Dolly has at least 100, but maintains a great fondness for throw pillows, of which I am indifferent, as never understand their utility.

[Joey777]

My wife and I were fortunate to have our GSD for 13 years. Had to put her down this past August due to cancer. Over the years we’ve had mostly Collies, one Sheltie, and one GSD. They were all great dogs in their own way. The shepherd was a very sweet dog but at the same time didn’t put up with ANY BS. If the right one comes along we will have another one. I think you will really enjoy and love that pup.

[Rodnok1]

Bear continues to grow, 51 lbs and just about 6 months old now.
Boney ass puppy.
Settling in now to a routine pretty good finally.
Been working those teeth with big cow bones and rawhides.
I changed his feeding schedule today and he let me know it was unacceptable.
Still working on training, come and stay need work. Had to get a shock collar as he ran off on me last week and took half hr to get him corralled then he tried biting me when taking his ass beating.
Only used the actual shock part a few times on lower setting, vibration works well.
He was going after extension cords once and was getting very bitey with wife outside.
Wants to sleep on my bed now, which if he actually sleeps is fine. Surprisingly a vibrate and say goto bed and he curls up and sleeps on my bed. Guess it's just getting his attention mostly.
He decided hand cart was the enemy and tries to rip tires off it, and leaf blower and garden hose, yard wagon, extension cords... He has issues.
Does well in public, still a spaz but listens well. Saw a lady on a rascal scooter and told her to stop as he was eyeballing her tires. Never considered that scenario.
Been practicing car trips and he does very well, usually lays down and naps after a bit which is good as 12 hr trip next month.
He seems to have turned a corner with biting and behavior... Both are improving greatly.

[Rodnok1]

Well he hit a lull in growth and teething for a couple of weeks maybe, now he's back at the hungry all the time and starting growing alot again. So food increase was needed, almost 6 cups a day. Started trying to bite me over food pan which didn't end well for him.
Behaves pretty well for a puppy except with the food and chew bones as they had to get put up for now.
Walks better on leash than alot of my other dogs did. Outgrew his harness already, fat dog in little coat syndrome.
Car rides going well, usually lays down takes a nap after a few minutes.
Absolutely goes bat shit crazy over any wheels moving and the vacuum isn't going to make it I fear as it's his nemesis.

[Big bob]

Better break him of this or he will end up getting run over. Best way I found while he still has puppy teeth to lose is to fasten a rag to a lug nut of a wheel he likes to attack and tow it around. He will get a surprise when he grabs it and gets tossed on his ass.

[Rodnok1]

Bear is almost 70 lbs now best i can get a weight on him. Coming up on 8 months old.

Trip of 700 miles each way this month with him and the wife, besides biting her when he had to poop and deciding to rip the seat back off it was just a horrible trip LOL. He didn't behave well alot of the time although the wife got him to sleep in her lap for hrs. Heavy rain, snow and 30 knot winds each way does not make a fun trip especially with a spaz of a dog.

His speed picked up to Mach 1.2 one night while up North around Midnight. Scared the hell out of me running full bore right by me in the dark. Just decided he needed to run one night...

Got his big boy hair and fur coming in, started at about 7 months old. So now we have hairballs all over.
He enjoys a good combing though.

He was scared of two little bitty dogs next to where we stayed on trip for 2 days... They bark so loud think it hurts his ears, then they all figured out they all liked to run and run for hours they did. He refused to play in the yard until I cleaned up the poop from friend's dog... Looked at me like who poops all over the place, that's just nasty. I wonder about him sometimes.

Still having issues with aggression over food and chew bones, he tried to nip me once over chew bone and paid for it dearly.
He got bitey playing last week so smacked him on the nose... So he slapped the dog shit right out of me, about broke my nose. Wth dog. Those hockey sticks of his are longer than they look.

Started sleeping with me on bed for an hr now and then but always gets too hot and goes to his fan and kennel.

He has decided to destroy his kennel pad on a daily basis so no pad for now just some towels. Need to find some super tough fabric and make covers.

He has destroyed numerous rope toys, basically any dog toy not made of firehose is shredded in mear seconds. I ordered a box of rope and just make rope pull toys now and he's never left alone with them.

Sleeps 7 hrs or so maybe more every night and zero accidents in house.

Working on Heel and Stay commands which with a spaz are not easy. Getting better but it's alot of work and time.

Already been asked how much I'd charge to stud him out... I'm gonna pimp that dog out all over the East Coast if the price is right. Where's my pimp hat at.

Couple pics from this week.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Couple pics from this week.

Very handsome!

[Rodnok1]

Nine month old update time...
70 to 75 lbs as haven't weighed this month. Boy he is filling out alot.
Loves to run and wrestle as much as he can.
Calming down some more as he'll sleep on bed for an hour or two a day now.
Getting very attached to rest of the family and takes exception to them not playing with him or when they leave he gets riled up big time.

Last week he unfortunately was hurt and has been kennel bound since. He had slightly injured a foot or ankle the week before when yard was muddy and I hadn't been playing hard with him so we wrestle mainly and walk alot. He gets a toy or ball and wrestles your feet or legs if sitting. He really loves when you sit on ground and he gets his wrestle on. He had knocked me over so we were leg wrestling and somehow he caught right front awkward and went down and hurt his shoulder badly. Nothing dislocated but he had a bad limp for a few days and yipped when twisting it. I got him a shoulder brace and been keeping him in kennel 95% of the time, which is super fun being he's a full blown spaz. The brace is slowing him down if nothing else as it immobilizes his shoulder mostly forcing him off it.
I fenced a very small area off for him to use outside also. Luckily I had a super comfy 4 inch memory foam dog pad in reserve for him to use.
This will be an extended recovery of 2 additional weeks at least as he's still pretty sore, although he doesn't act like it sometimes as he'll try running full speed outside.
Hopefully couple weeks and he'll be back to full spaz.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Nine month old update time...
70 to 75 lbs as haven't weighed this month. Boy he is filling out alot.
Loves to run and wrestle as much as he can.
Calming down some more as he'll sleep on bed for an hour or two a day now.
Getting very attached to rest of the family and takes exception to them not playing with him or when they leave he gets riled up big time.

Last week he unfortunately was hurt and has been kennel bound since. He had slightly injured a foot or ankle the week before when yard was muddy and I hadn't been playing hard with him so we wrestle mainly and walk alot. He gets a toy or ball and wrestles your feet or legs if sitting. He really loves when you sit on ground and he gets his wrestle on. He had knocked me over so we were leg wrestling and somehow he caught right front awkward and went down and hurt his shoulder badly. Nothing dislocated but he had a bad limp for a few days and yipped when twisting it. I got him a shoulder brace and been keeping him in kennel 95% of the time, which is super fun being he's a full blown spaz. The brace is slowing him down if nothing else as it immobilizes his shoulder mostly forcing him off it.
I fenced a very small area off for him to use outside also. Luckily I had a super comfy 4 inch memory foam dog pad in reserve for him to use.
This will be an extended recovery of 2 additional weeks at least as he's still pretty sore, although he doesn't act like it sometimes as he'll try running full speed outside.
Hopefully couple weeks and he'll be back to full spaz.

Sorry to hear he got a "tweak". As I approach 60 years old myself, I can relate to a play session gone a little too wild. Miss Belle reacts well to "Novox", basically a doggie NSAID. He still is a handsome buck, and sure to be a handful going forward!

[Rodnok1]

I forgot to mention that Bear has not recognized the fall time change one single day.. So I'm looking forward to this weekend and sleeping until 7 as he is awake between 530 and 6 every morning wanting to eat. I asked him about the time change and pretty sure he said I could cram it up my bung hole and if I didn't feed him he'd eat my bed so.... We get up before 6. He eats 4 times a day, I did attempt to reduce number of times and he gave me a look like only a woman could give you. I don't speak a lot of doglish but I got the point.

[LATB]

Real good looking pup.

[simpleman68]

Hope he heals up soon so you guys can get back to proper play time.

Really handsome pup!
Scott

[Rodnok1]

Ten months old now, 75 lbs best weight i could get.
Just finally about healed up from shoulder injury. No limp I've seen the last few days.
Kept his run area very limited for almost 3 weeks, then expanded some and back to full area now. Still not running him that much and making sure he doesn't jump as much as possible.
Still a spaz but he's calmed down a wee bit.
Sleeps 8 hrs or so at night with about a 2 hr nap in the afternoon. Up by 615 every morning as he's hungry.
He can stand on hind legs and balance himself quite well now.
He started playing hide and seek with me last week. He will throw the ball out when behind something and hide.. Waits for me to get close and grabs the ball and takes off.
Got him some new spiky balls to play with and he loves them, brings it in when he comes in and keeps a spare in his bed. He hasn't destroyed one yet which is unheard of.
He has to have something in his teeth most of the time.
Another trip north in a couple of weeks and hoping he behaves better this trip.