Li!

The face of a demon ^ yep, that's what it looks like.



Li "lee" [aka Liman, Limur, eekers, eekman, stinker, or stink bomb] is doing great. See never plan ahead, because everything goes awry anyway. My Blue Merle female with long ears and a long tail came home as a BLACK MALE DOCKED and CROPPED dog. haha He really isn't black anymore though. He has a lot of grey in him.


His dark grizzled jacket and grey legs and face make him look like a Schnauzer wannabe. haha
His underbite makes him look like he's smiling, even when his mouth is closed. It's really cute. *silver lining*

Both of these photos were taken at my dad's work in the spare office where we hang out when we visit. I biked him the 5 miles to get there so that is why he is sitting still. He usually is out of the viewing frame by the time the photo is snapped. haha

Anyway, more plans gone crazy : my future show dog has an underbite and is a cryptorchid. haha I just love this! He's getting neutered on Monday by the way.
His running contacts that were going to be started by now have been delayed by a stubborn little dude that doesn't see the point in running across a flat board if he can hop off the side and run on normal ground. haha To fix that problem, after shaping, back training, and luring didn't work, I propped the 8 foot long board about 10 inches high and taught him to run UP it which he gladly did for the treat or toy that was waiting up top. Putting it in reverse was easy after that. Once he understood that he was supposed to trot ON the board, I slowly lowered it down and now am asking for a run. He is at 2 inch height right now and I am just going to work up from here now.


His cik/cap/outs are phenomenal though! He is getting so reliable that I can usually send him from any angle and from EITHER side of me and he'll still hit it. I am very excited with his consistency.

He gets a kick out of chasing cats but only does it on command. I'll be standing around with him and he'll spot one of the cats and he'll look at the cat and then look at me. I release him and he chases the cat down the first set of stairs to the front entryway [we live in a split level house], then I call him and he comes back to me without hesitation. He enjoys chasing goats with me. I have this one really strong stick that is about 4 feet long, 1 inch in diameter, and nearly impossible to break that I use as kind of like a shepherd's staff. Li tries to corner them while I grab them by the horns, sitting on them, and check their feet. It's fun. Li is much more speedy than the goats so he just runs circles around them and they couldn't charge him even if they tried. When I am checking their hooves to see if they need to be trimmed yet, Li can sometimes still be wild, therefore freaking out the goat and the goat turns on me and goes crazy. What is nice in such a situation is Li's down command, which is extremely solid and he even listens from a distance.
He shows no fear of horses and even challenges them but I try to keep them separated as the horses hate dogs and wouldn't hesitate to put their lights out. Yeah, bad I know.
He does pipes of any shape. Instead of starting him on a short and straight pipe and work him up to a curved, long one I took a shortcut. I put him in a crate out side so he could see me and my lab/GSD mix. I then sent the mix [who is an amazingly consistent dog but is built for speed not endurance so is good for one course and then is VERY slow for a few days as if to say "that was my exercise for the week, now let me Sleeepp!" She is the most naturally talented dog I've ever seen though or maybe just very lazy. Her laziness is good because her mentality is "I want to get this over with so I can go back to sleep ASAP. To cut her time on the course, she makes VERY tight yet fast turns, has NATURAL built in cik and cap without the commands [she basically turns while jumping haha] and she has 99% hit contacts on her 100% fast dog walk] through the tunnel and praised her and played with her and did everything in my power to make Li jealous of the attention. When I let him out of the crate, he was determined to copy Shadow [the mix] so he could get all those treats and hugs too. I sent her through the tunnel and Li followed. I praised him like crazy. I repeated this a few more times and soon he was just going in by himself and not waiting for sluggish shadow. Welcome to the lazy person's way of dog training! haha

Anyway, that's all for now - just an update.

-Ri and Li [ "REE" and " LEE" yep, they rhyme, yay *rolls eyes* I am tiiirreeeddd. Li wears me out haha]