We picked ‘Zora’. Was: It's time to choose a name...whatcha got?

littlebeast

get it while it's easy
Nothing formal / in person yet. She's been pretty quick to catch on when we expose her to new tasks. When in the backyard at home she'll fetch her toys and 'drop it' when I tell her too. You can see her fighting her urges, and occasionally she'll give into them, but for the most part she enjoys the praise for dropping it more than the toy itself.

Leash training is a bitch. She's not having any of it. She pulls very mildly when at home and on our cul de sac, but once in 'public' she looses her mind! We're trying one of those over the snout leashes to see if that helps.

At home she will respond to treats and praise, in public...not so much.

you might consider getting her (and yourself) into formal training soon. she’s going to keep getting bigger and much stronger; and if her assertiveness under certain circumstances goes unchecked for too long, it will be that much harder to rein her in. large, powerful dogs can be very dangerous if they are not very well trained and completely controllable (especially by voice as it is unlikely anyone could physically control her once she is mature) - and the exceptionally smart ones (like her breed) - even more so. do yourself, your family and especially her a favor and get the two of you into training. she’ll pay the biggest price for any failure on your part to be able to control her. treat her like a loaded gun - because in public, that’s what she is going to become.

on a happier note - LOVE the pics! she’s GORGEOUS!!!
 

Enchanter

Ghost in The Machine
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^^^ I agree with the need for formal training sooner than later. Just trying to coordinate the timing of the class and my schedule.
 

Enchanter

Ghost in The Machine
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Just binged watched Canine Intervention. It was difficult to watch.

From the scripted 'reality', to the different vernacular when he's talking directly to the camera and when he's talking to the dog owners, to the producers starting every scene with an aerial view of San Francisco when the business is based in San Jose (and most of the filming is in Los Angeles, or Mojave). Evidently Netflix doesn't think that viewers know where San Jose is.
 

auntiebling

megalomaniacal troglodyte
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Just binged watched Canine Intervention. It was difficult to watch.

From the scripted 'reality', to the different vernacular when he's talking directly to the camera and when he's talking to the dog owners, to the producers starting every scene with an aerial view of San Francisco when the business is based in San Jose (and most of the filming is in Los Angeles, or Mojave). Evidently Netflix doesn't think that viewers know where San Jose is.

this is probably accurate in my experience. a friend of mine i met in college grew up in watsonville. we both ended up working at the same large company in palo alto straight out of college. as a kid he commuted from watsonville to south san francisco to spend time with his mom so he definitely knew some of the geography. to him, everything south of daly city to gilroy was san jose. he currently lives in san jose, like actual san jose where 87 and 85 meet more or less.
 

Map8

I want nothing
Staff member
If it wasn't for Dionne Warwick a lot of people wouldn't know about San Jose.
 
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