Joe

Joe is such a sweet natured boy who seems to love everyone and just wants to please. When he first came in he was all over the place on the lead but now he generally walks quite nicely. He will pull towards other dogs as he desperately wants to play but is quite easy to check.

I think he will make a wonderful family pet and I suspect he would do very well in obedience training. He behaves beautifully for my teenage daughter who is completely smitten with him and makes me take her over to Sharon's to walk him as often as she can (in fact if we lived closer I suspect Sharon would be looking for a restraining order by now!)

As I understand it, he's been in rescue kennels effectively his whole life so it would be fabulous if he could find somewhere to start learning to be an indoor dog while he's still a relative youngster.

What's 1 more in the house and compared to the other 2 he is small.

I would have him like a shot if I wasn't working - I would love to see him and my daughter taking training classes together - but as Mick is the one who is at home during the day he is the one that would bear the brunt of the work on housetraining etc and at the moment he needs to focus any time he can spare on Stubbs (mainly teaching him that he can't approach playing with all dogs as though they are Duchess or Bana since smaller ones are liable to break!)

I was only teasing, It's just so nice to see you and Mick with your 2 and all the hard work you are putting in.

I usually walk the dogs around the nearby fields but it was so wet and muddy
today (and my wellies were leaking!!!!) So I stuck to the road today which
meant Joe saw lots of cars.
I found out today that Joe likes to chase cars!

Every car that went past he tried to run after. Then we saw a young lad on
his push bike and Joe shit a brick - I found out today that Joe doesn't like
push bikes! He hid behind my legs until the strange looking bike had passed us

Joe ..... You're a plonker

Right then we must get him near more bikes, there is a bike in the shed Tracy I bags you get on it and keep riding past us

lol Sharon - has it got stabilisers???

Now where can I get stabilisers for a mountain bike

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If you've got a bike Sharon I happen to have a spare teenager we can stick on it :) I'm sure Amber won't mind being volunteered. Probably not this weekend because we're doing the group walk with Corrina and Misty but if you want it worked on next weekend let me know.

That would be great Alison if Amber would as we have found a problem lets work on it

Still would like to see Tracy on the bike being chased by Joe

sharon wrote:

Still would like to see Tracy on the bike being chased by Joe

I think it's very important that if that occurs it should be videoed and shared on the forum

Again ..... .... Both of you!

Don't encourage her Alison!

Joe was so good at Mote Park today. Given that he's never been in a situation like that before he did really well - he was neither nervous nor too hyper, just wanted to be friends with everyone and would have loved to play. He was really good in the car too.

Joe out on his walk today

funny little sod. He insited on carry the branch around with him until we
finally convinced him to swap it for a smaller & more practical twig!!

24 hours into fostering Joe and everything's going fine here so far.

He's mostly chilling in his crate so he can get a feel for house life while our two size him up. He and Stubbs seem to be getting on well but Uno is decidedly unimpressed (she was the same when Stubbs first came here though, just takes her a bit of time to warm up).

He was very settled overnight - whimpered for 5 or 10 minutes when we went to bed but then nothing else all night. No accidents indoors so far and he's eating well.

He had a walk with both of ours yesterday when he arrived and again this morning, then another long walk just with Stubbs today (while I took Uno for a play-date with her new wolfhound beau).

Obviously having no experience of house life he's being closely supervised when he's out of the crate but he seems to be settling well. And Amber has found that he just loves being groomed

Ooohh Alison! I'm dead chuffed he's with you

Be a good boy Joe

Sending lots of love & kisses

Well done Alison! Joe is lovely, just a shame it didnt work with him and Lily, he wouldnt stop trying to hump her!

wadeherring wrote:

just a shame it didnt work with him and Lily, he wouldnt stop trying to hump her!

I can see that wouldn't go down well He hasn't got close enough to Uno to try it - she's giving him fairly short shrift at the moment and ticks him off if he even looks in her direction. Maybe she's heard his reputation

Good luck to you all. Keep us updated.

Just a quick update so you know all's well.

Joe is settling well, and spending longer periods out of his crate. We finally took the plunge and had him off lead in the garden with Stubbs this morning and they played beautifully, charging around in the swamp that passes for my lawn like a pair of lunatics then this afternoon we had Uno out with them as well and it was more of the same

He's not had a single accident indoors although I keep telling myself it's just a matter of time - we can't be that lucky! Obviously he's still got a lot to learn about what you can and can't do indoors but he's getting better and picks things up quickly. He's still keen on the idea of chasing cars which is going to need some work but is otherwise fine on the lead although he'll pull if we see other dogs.

Uno takes no nonsense from him indoors but seems to be warming to him a bit, or at least resigned to his presence anyway. Stubbs is getting quite friendly with him but will tick him off if he annoys Uno which is quite funny to watch.

And he'll still do anything for a cuddle - that certainly hasn't changed.

So far so good...

AWWWW! Happy Joe. Would love to see photos of him and Stubbs playing. I hope it keeps going well, you guys are doing a great job.

Really pleased it is going well..........so far and he is trying to be a good boy