Adventures in Training the Beagles

Dulce

I reserve the right to change my mind, but so far, on the paperwork I’ve been filling out for her, her call name is Dulce.

For those of you who don’t speak TexMex, Dulce means sweet, or sweetness.  I’ve had a few girls named Dulce in my classroom, and they are very much like Dulce, sweet and quiet.

I think it works well with Tesoro’s Sweet Temptation and works better than other names that fit with that.

We have some issues:

• drools in the car and is very subdued when she gets out of the car.  Know the feeling.
• hand shy
• not sure about the dog door

We have lots of good things:

• Gets on well with the other girls
• Listens when you tell her no.
• Asks permission
• Plays tug and chases thrown objects

I like the fact that she isn’t Macy.  Macy is flashy in looks and over the top in attitude.  Of course we’ve been together for less than 24 hours.  I’ll tell you what she’s really like in a few weeks.

She’s enrolled in a Level I / Puppy Clicker Agility class.  We have to go through some of this to even go to an agility class.

First Night

It went really well.

I didn't get home from Glen Rose until almost 7:30. 

Fed her and Macy as they had not eaten.

I put her in the yard first, let her sniff around and get comfortable.  Then I added Macy, later Maggie, and then my husband.  He's pretty intimidating because he is so tall and lean.  Just posted a video on that.

Kept her in the crate in the living room the first part of the evening.  Got her out, let her pee and let her do some supervised exploring in that part of the house.  She's really good about asking permission.

At bedtimeI put her in a crate outside my door.  She was quiet all night.  We just got up, peed and got fed, and I'm on my way down to let everyone in the yard after we've calmed down from eating.