Canis-Lupess
01-14-2010, 05:58 PM
I used to post here some time ago. Some people may remember me. Anyway, back then I had one elderly Border collie bitch called Jess. I lost Jess is February 2008 and I didn't post here about it or anymore after that. Anyway, three weeks later, I got a new puppy. A blue merle Border collie and called her Sleet.
I got a second Border collie three months later. A red and white one and called her Wren. I don't know whether you lot have Wrens in the US like what we have here but they are tiny little birds with a reddish brown colour...one of the smallest birds in the UK.
I started using clicker training shortly after acquiring Wren and I was also a member of a local flyball team and they trained up for that when old enough. Sleet managed to gain her flyball dog award and then her flyball intermediate but then I quit due to some nasty people causing problems and other issues. Wren was just about to go open out of starters so it was a bit of a shame. Anyway, I carry on with their trick training and they know dozens of things ranging from weaving through legs, jumping on my back, riding skateboards, stacking rings, walking on hind legs and doing handstands and walking on front legs, limping, rolling themselves into a blanket, sleet skips with me with a skipping rope, they are both currently learning to play the glockenspiel and wren is also doing the trick now where she jumps onto your feet whilst you're laying on your back with your legs in the air and balances...sleet, after some confidence building, has also just started to show enough bravery to make a better try of it. They know loads of other stuff but too much to list here.
As they have grown up now, Sleet is 2 years and Wren will be 2 at the end of February...should be the 29th but will have to be 1st of March..yes, she's a leap year pup. There's lots I missed out on posting here since I got them.
Here's a few piccies of them anyway.
Sleet first: She is a fairly dark merle with a lot of black and has ghost tan points so she's half tri-merle.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet1404095.jpg
Posing with her snow sculpture that her and wren made on Xmas eve:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet24120920.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet2412093.jpg
Here is Wren:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren1404092.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren2412093.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren24120910.jpg
And the pair of them..
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren2412094.jpg
Making their sculpture.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren2412098.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren24120912.jpg
These are the only pics I have in my photobucket right now.
You can view plenty more photos of them here but not really recent ones. The last ones were taken end of August on a visit to the pennines.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canislupess/
I got a second Border collie three months later. A red and white one and called her Wren. I don't know whether you lot have Wrens in the US like what we have here but they are tiny little birds with a reddish brown colour...one of the smallest birds in the UK.
I started using clicker training shortly after acquiring Wren and I was also a member of a local flyball team and they trained up for that when old enough. Sleet managed to gain her flyball dog award and then her flyball intermediate but then I quit due to some nasty people causing problems and other issues. Wren was just about to go open out of starters so it was a bit of a shame. Anyway, I carry on with their trick training and they know dozens of things ranging from weaving through legs, jumping on my back, riding skateboards, stacking rings, walking on hind legs and doing handstands and walking on front legs, limping, rolling themselves into a blanket, sleet skips with me with a skipping rope, they are both currently learning to play the glockenspiel and wren is also doing the trick now where she jumps onto your feet whilst you're laying on your back with your legs in the air and balances...sleet, after some confidence building, has also just started to show enough bravery to make a better try of it. They know loads of other stuff but too much to list here.
As they have grown up now, Sleet is 2 years and Wren will be 2 at the end of February...should be the 29th but will have to be 1st of March..yes, she's a leap year pup. There's lots I missed out on posting here since I got them.
Here's a few piccies of them anyway.
Sleet first: She is a fairly dark merle with a lot of black and has ghost tan points so she's half tri-merle.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet1404095.jpg
Posing with her snow sculpture that her and wren made on Xmas eve:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet24120920.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleet2412093.jpg
Here is Wren:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren1404092.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren2412093.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/wren24120910.jpg
And the pair of them..
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren2412094.jpg
Making their sculpture.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren2412098.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/Canislupess/sleetwren24120912.jpg
These are the only pics I have in my photobucket right now.
You can view plenty more photos of them here but not really recent ones. The last ones were taken end of August on a visit to the pennines.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canislupess/