More to come....

I  apologize for no posts this week about Rogue.  As the IT Manager at the UW-Marshfield/Wood County Campus, this is a busy week and I have been a bit consumed with end of summer projects.  Don't fear!  I have more blog post ideas for this weekend.

As an update:

Rogue continues to improve.  We had a spurt of inside accidents again, which was frustrating, but when I look at her training to this point, about a month after she came home, her progress really is remarkable.

She sits on command fairly consistently.

She sometimes likes to play fetch, but seems to need Ike to do it first before she gets excited enough to want to do it.

She is doing better with come.  This morning she was let outside with Ike and a squirrel has the misfortune of running through the yard.   Rogue was off.  One loud "COME" from me and she stopped dead in her tracks and came running back.  That's great!

As I mentioned, housebreaking continues to be a challenge.  Housebreaking takes a lot of patience.  However, she has learned where to go (we designate an area behind the garage for the dogs and Ike is let out and goes to that spot every day).  Today was the first day she went to the spot on her own without me walking her there.  This is useful considering the 90 degree weather we have had lately will change to freezing temperatures all too soon.

Rogue is starting learn Lay Down, which is a bit tough for her...laying down takes her further from us physically, so she doesn't like to do it.  However, we are also working on Head Down, so that when she lays down she can then be told to put her head down. Why?  Because Rogue is a cuddler...and that is nice, but she has a habit of getting right in your face...head down allows her to be by us, but not right in our face.

Finally, Rogue is going to be famous.  There will be an article in the Marshfield News-Herald in the next few weeks that discuss this blog, rescue adoption, etc...  I'm very proud of this, because this Blog is meant to help others who would like to adopt a rescue, but are hesitant.  The idea of getting a defective dog can keep people from taking the step to adopt.

My next blog post will be about Defective Dogs...and how they don't exist.