Ranger’s Name

While naming Ranger I had an idea of what I wanted to call him and what I wanted on his papers. No matter how I played with the spellings, I couldn’t get it to fit without looking weird. So, I went back to the drawing board.

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2008/12/03–2009 Catahoula Calendar

The 2009 Catahoula Calendar is now ready for sale. A portion of the proceeds from each calendar goes to benefit Catahoula Rescue. This year’s theme is The Versatile Catahoula. The cover was recently unveiled, and you may recognize one of the faces there–Beau. He’s wearing his backpack. He has been in the Catahoula calendar every…

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2008/10/31–Petable-Portraits

About a week ago I was contacted by Daniele at Petable-Portraits.com regarding Daniele doing a portrait of one of my dogs. Since I have a ton of pictures of Beau, and Ranger isn’t done turning into a little dog yet (he’s going through some crazy growth spurts), I chose Beau as the subject of the…

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2008/10/27–Go West Young Man

Today I got to briefly meet a very cool Cowboy, Mr. John Wayne Haynes. He is traveling from his home in Michigan to New Mexico to visit his family. His is no ordinary road trip, however, as he is on horseback (2-year-old Misty, and Appaloosa). and is accompanied by his pack horse (Harley, 23, another…

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2008/10/23–Ranger at Puppy School, Week 2

I’m quite pleased with how Ranger is adjusting to his new life here as well as the new skills he’s learned in the past few weeks. He was having issues with housetraining (he still has a few, admittedly), however that has gotten better now that he understands what the bells that hang on the door…

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2008/10/15– Ranger goes to school!

Mr. Ranger has started Puppy Kindergarten at a local trainer, Training Tracks. This past spring Beau completed a class through Training Tracks to help me learn the basics of clicker training and he did very well–he’s a much faster learner than I am. Ranger is taking to the clicker very well and I can see…

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2008/09/29– J Cross’ Currahee

Last night I was visited by some friends (Carlye and Craig from Cross Check Catahoulas). They left a new little friend at my house, a littermate to their own little girl “J Cross’ Ammunition”. J Cross’ Currahee–a.k.a. “Ranger”.

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