Eva's first test

[andyhilt27]

My wife, daughter, and I traveled to my parents for my mother's birthday. I always crate Eva when we are not home or sleeping. After being gone for 4 hours I opened the door to the greetings of Joy and Eva. She had this look on her face that said, "Hey look at me, I escaped!" I have a suspicion that I failed to latch her crate. To my delightful suprise nothing was out of place or chewed up. Funny, as I write this praise, she is chewing on my throw pillow. "Give me that!!" Goof ball.

[Elaine]

That’s fantastic.. but you realize it means one of two things:

1. Eva is getting to the point where she can be trusted loose in the house; or,
2. you need to check again.. more thoroughly. :D

[Sonquest]

One other scenerio Andy! Maybe Eva didn't realize she could get out of her crate til she started jumping around upon hearing your arrival home!! :eek:

Tina :D

[andyhilt27]

I thought about that.....But I think she saw me fail to latch her crate. I know she was giggling. She probably got into all kinds of stuff, she just put it all back.:D

She is actually a pretty obedient dog. I give her all of the credit though.:D

[doberdogsfd]

How old is Eva now Andy?
Perhpas it is time for the Miss Eva to start to earn her rooms and be free in the house soon. :)

How is your soon to be Momma Andy?

Cheryl

[Elaine]

I thought about that.....But I think she saw me fail to latch her crate. I know she was giggling. She probably got into all kinds of stuff, she just put it all back.:D

From my experience there are basically two types of Dobermans, distinguished by the following example:

Let's say that you have the big thick juicy steak on the counter, as you turn your back the steak falls to the floor.

There is the Brentano / Titan kind of Dobe, who rushes in, grabs it and puts it back on the counter before you ever even notice anything is amiss. :) And there is the Warkant /Halla type who has swallowed it whole before it ever hits the floor. :p :D

[doberdogsfd]

There are two different types of Dobers, you are right! I would eat the damn steak if it hit the floor!!
Food on the floor is fair game, now food on the counter or table....not so much!:D

Cheryl

[andyhilt27]

How old is Eva now Andy?
Perhpas it is time for the Miss Eva to start to earn her rooms and be free in the house soon. :)

How is your soon to be Momma Andy?

Cheryl

Eva is 15 months.....free in the house???? SURE!!! As long as we are home. If I fall asleep on the couch she sleeps with me (on top of me actually). If I make it to bed she sleeps in her crate. When we leave or when we sleep in the bedroom are the only times she is required to be crated. Oh, also when we eat pizza. She only grabs pizza off of the counter. She has done it twice now, which is pretty good considering the amount of pizza we eat.

Tabitha is good. I think the breeding took. I love puppies and can't wait.

[Lou's mom]

From my experience there are basically two types of Dobermans, distinguished by the following example:

Let's say that you have the big thick juicy steak on the counter, as you turn your back the steak falls to the floor.

There is the Brentano / Titan kind of Dobe, who rushes in, grabs it and puts it back on the counter before you ever even notice anything is amiss. :) And there is the Warkant /Halla type who has swallowed it whole before it ever hits the floor. :p :D

My Lou was a third type: he was tryin to hork down a London Broil that I'd briefly turned my back on, and I pried open his mouth & pulled it out.

Yes, I cooked it and ate it, after washing off the slobber. His Last Bites were the pieces with teethmarks... ;)

[dobesign]

Muse would like to remind you all that there is ANOTHER.kind of dober...the kind that first steals your steak, samples it, decides that you cooked it wrong, cooks it better with some BAM in it and pops the corks on some fine local Oregon wine...and she does this while you are searching in the dark and rain for the favourite toy that she has convinced you has been misplaced in the yard by Tungsten...bark bark bark at the human until they go find the dang toy...Obama needs HER in his cabinet...maybe then she'll stay outa mine! Snitcher!

[Janice McGerr]

I could leave my food on the table and our Urussia would guard it, not even Roger could touch it! But if it was on the counter, in her world it was self serve and she would take her severing. Now the group I have now everthing is fair game!:eek: I have also done the throat diving for meat that was on the counter!

[Elaine]

Re: Throat diving to retrieve stuff:

Ever sit back and think about all the things we do for and even to our dogs... and how we must sound to all the non-doggy people out there. :D

[Janice McGerr]

Non-doggy people out there. Made me think of the time at one of the Nationals, I had the do not enter sign on the door. The maid is at the door and I am yelling, DO NOT COME IN! (I had Nico, Ada and Uno lose in the room). She opened the door anyway, what must of went throw her head as she saw me sitting on one of them, on the bed (I was doing there nails).
I just can not imagine what she thought! All I could do was laugh! and wounder what she told her people.:D

[Elaine2]

Janice, I am getting a visual of the maid's reaction and killing myself laughing.

Andy, no matter how innocent they appear, you will get a surprise one day. Alme is normally an angel and had passed all of our "tests".
Ahem, until one day last week Tom went out to shovel more of that white crap for a few minutes and came in to find one of his trillion remote controls for a satellite receiver in pieces. Of course it was the only remote that could not be programmed into some of the others. :mad:
Thank goodness all of the pieces were accounted for and she did not bite into the batteries. He had thought about Lil Claire right away and panicked.:o

With Quincy we just have to close the bathroom door when we go out because he just loves the garbage pail in there. Dental floss, snot rags...disgusting and scary. :eek:
E2

[Lou's mom]

My Nyx used to be fascinated by batteries. She started w/the CD player remote, eating the on-off button, and graduated to popping the plates off of any battery-powered device I left within her reach. Never ate the batteries, but I guess she must've been an engineer of some type in a former (2legged) life. :D