We weren’t expecting another dog.  We had Sophie Ray and LucyFur and our hands were full.  We accidentally picked up Daisy (Oopsie Daisy).

She’s a German Wirehair and English Pointer cross, at least that’s what we were told.

Our old German Wirehair, Buddy, was a handful of work.  His head was as thick and hard as a slab of cement, but oh the personality in that boy.  If you weren’t mad as hell at him, you were trying your damnedest to not let him see you laugh at his antics.

German Wirehairs are a lot of dog.  They’re energetic, busy, and smart.  Too smart.  Unfortunately for Buddy, all we knew about dogs was that we loved them.  Loving them isn’t enough.  You have to learn about dogs.  Dogs need to be trained.  Buddy trained us.

Daisy’s our second chance to train a busy Wirehair with a giant brain.

Here she is at five months:

I’ve taken a few classes (bless you, Seattle Humane Society), read a lot of Patricia McConnell (Bless you, Trisha), Karen Pryor (you know the routine now), and I’ve gotten a lot better at the training side of things.  Here’s a picture of Daisy’s response to the “Watch” suggestion:

Maybe you can’t tell, but she jumped up and knocked the camera out of my hand.  This tells us two things:

1)     You know why I call it the “Watch” suggestion instead of command.

2)     I need more training.

3)     We need to work on jumping (or to be more precise, *not* jumping).

4)     I can’t count.

So now I need to learn how to put in links.  It’s irritating that learning some things is so hard for me.