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Arrival Story: Hi! My name is Northern Lights Kenai Penninsula and I'm not even born yet! I'm a flat coated retriever and I'm due to be born on May 21st 2009!
Bio: My Father was imported to the US from Denmark. His name is Ch Huntlover's Jumping Star Of Bristol and My Mom is a US bred liver colored Flat Coated Retriever named Ch Flashback Crazy For Loving You.
My human Mom & Dad are eagerly anticipating my arrival though they won't know whether I'm a boy or girl, black or liver colored until very shortly before Dad drives out from Wisconsin to Washington state to get me and bring me home!
I'm going to be their very first show puppy, I'm going to learn to hunt, and I'm going to learn obedience and compete in all of these events as long as Mom & Dad know that I'm having fun and enjoying my life!
Forums Motto: I've got "birdiness"!!
The Groups I'm In: AKC Conformation Show Dogs, Flatcoats World, SE Wisconsin Dogs, SHOW DOGS!!!, Wisconsin Dogs!!
The Last Forum I Posted In: I was in my first dog show today!
Northern Lights Flatcoated Retrievers is requesting that all pups are named with an "Alaska" theme so Mom & Dad chose one of the suggested names "Northern Lights Kenai Penninsula". Dad had looked up the word "Kenai" and in the Dena'ina Athabascan Indian language (natives of Alaska) it loosely translates to "Big Flat". Since a Flat Coated Retriever is what I am going to be, he thought that was a great name for me! Mom loves it too!
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Mom & Dad are reading the book Before You Get Your Puppy by Ian Dunbar. This is a free book available online just click on the name if you'd like to read it too.
They also have the book After You Get Your Puppy which you have to purchase. They're also in the process of reading that book as well.
Dad and I graduated from our Puppy I class last night.
There was a test where I had to sit/stay for ten seconds, Greet Becky the receptionist, target a post it note on the wall. I had to sit at a door being opened. Once inside the room I had to do 10 puppy push ups (that was hard and boring!!). Sit down sit down 10 times. Then I had to sit in front of another door before being opened. We had to weave through cones on a loose leash, walk on a loose leash around the perimeter of the puppy play yard where I go to daycare so all of this was very distracting!!! I had to leave treats on the ground twice, target a targeting stick, then a recall. I did very well and had the 2nd fastest time of the group completing the course.
Then each of us pups was to show a trick we had learned. Dad and I did a demonstration of shaping me to stand on a book. There are a couple of videos from our practice sessions in my video diary! All in all it was a great evening and of course I got to play play play with my friends!!
A few of them are already signed up for Puppy II class which starts October 7th! Can't wait!!
Today our litter had our puppy aptitude test. We all scored very well and pretty evenly across the board. The evaluator (a nice lady named Cindy) used the Volhard Puppy Aptitude test. You can view the score card with explanations here We all pretty much scored 3's & 4's on everything.
When we know for absolute certain which puppy I am, Mom will edit this diary entry with my exact scores.
Then we had our "birdiness" test! Being retrievers we all found that to be a LOT of fun!! Our entire group was introduced to a pigeon. We were all curious and chased it a little.
Then we were individually introduced to the pigeon one by one and those results were recorded. Mr Green (we think that is me) and two others scored the highest which was 5. My breeder said she wished there was a score above 5 because Mr Green clearly showed the most "birdiness" of the group.
After all of this testing we all went to the vet!! Everyone in the office went nuts over 7 liver flat coated retriever puppies!! Talk about being fussed over!! The vet gave us all a clean bill of health. We were all dewormed AND micro chipped.
So we have our health certificates for our new owners and we are now just waiting for our structure testing on July 15th!
Our breeder took all us pups to a farm today! We were all very excited in the car and being quite noisy!
When we got there all of us went right out and started charging all over the place! We weren't afraid, but we were very aware of all of the sights, smells and sounds. We met a chicken that led us around a corner to where there were more chickens. All of us pups were following at first. All of a sudden all of the chickens (numbering 150!) came waddling over to see what was going on! Mr Green (me) made the first bold move to go up and check them out. Mr Yellow was right behind me but when the chickens started to multiply Mr Orange was the only one left to face them all! The rest of us just started wrestling with each other a few yards away.
Then along came the cows. They seemed to be more afraid of us than we were of them! Each of us pups made an attempt to see what they were. We weren't afraid but we were cautious! Mr Yellow went up to them several times totally on his own!
Then we ran through a huge garden and hid under everything we could find. We had the best time! Then we ate lunch and had a nap. During our nap the roosters were crowing at some sirens going off in the distance. We hardly opened our eyes we were so tired! Then a tiny little bird tweeted nearby and all of our heads jumped up at the same time! Go figure!
We played a little more then headed home. Our breeder posted quite a few photos of the event. Check it out here
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