Red and Green and heading to their anxious owners this weekend. There just wasn't enough time to get them all out the weekend they turned 8 weeks. Red is heading to British Columbia on Saturday and Green goes to the Big Sky Country, Montana on Sunday. I'm envious of Green.... he'll see hundreds of wild pheasants in his lifetime. Exactly what thrills a vizsla to pieces. Cayenne will have her share but there aren't as many wild birds available in our area. 

New families! We were fortunate to get nice pictures of most families who came last weekend. We missed the Hicks (they'll send us a photo with Lily) and need Jim Lawrence (with Cari), but here's the vizsla families we caught:

The Gerings from north Spokane, WA  with Blaze

The Levines from Sammamish, WA with Casper

The Livingstons from Sherwood, OR with Copper.

PUPPY TRAINING BEGINS!

I'm beginning recognition training with Cayenne. I got tiny pieces of string cheese and sat on the floor. The boys were still in their pen and the cats were outside so it was just the two of us. When she looked at me I quickly and quietly said "Yes" and put a piece of cheese in her mouth. She thought that was great stuff so she jumped all over me. When she didn't get any more cheese she went off again. The second she looked at me I repeated the 'yes' and the cheese. Again, lots of excitement and finally, she went off again.As she moved off she did a  quick check in that  I almost missed!. "Yes" and treat! It took just those three times and she plunked herself down and stared into my face. I took it one step further and rewarded her when she looked away then looked back at me. Cat came in and she looked at cat... looked back and got a "yes!" and a bigger treat. A couple more look away/look at me and we're done for the day. The whole thing took 5 +/- minutes. I'll do that routine a couple of times a day to cement the behavior. Next.... name recognition.