Added to the end of the album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lsleblanc82/Gatsby
Evidently you can also upload video too because it added his dog park/doggie olympics videos.
(I plan to blog more later--I didn't forget about y'all!)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Training for the Dog Olympics
Also known as "no man shall come between Gatsby and his toy".
I mean, would you put him winning the high jump past him after you see this?
I mean, would you put him winning the high jump past him after you see this?
Gatsby goes to the dog park
You know it's a momentous occasion when someone other than Laura updates the blog...
It was a beautiful day today, so we decided to reward Gatsby for being such a good dog last night when Laura and I went to the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Raleigh Boychoir (probably worthy of a post on its own, but I'll let Laura handle that) by taking him to a dog park near our old apartment in Raleigh. As you can see below, he certainly made good use of his time...
But, as you might imagine, all that running (45 minutes worth!) tuckered him out, so this is what transpired about fifteen minutes after we came back home:
It was a beautiful day today, so we decided to reward Gatsby for being such a good dog last night when Laura and I went to the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Raleigh Boychoir (probably worthy of a post on its own, but I'll let Laura handle that) by taking him to a dog park near our old apartment in Raleigh. As you can see below, he certainly made good use of his time...
But, as you might imagine, all that running (45 minutes worth!) tuckered him out, so this is what transpired about fifteen minutes after we came back home:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
OK, OK, OKAY!
Everyone has been sending me nasty e-mails and Facebook messages, so here I am for an update! (Some of you need to get a library card or something and get some new reading material!)
Everything chez LeBlanc has been going really well, but we've been super busy. I've been really busy at work and we've been really busy at home actually having someone to take care of!
Little Gatsby has been adjusting pretty well. He absolutely hated the crate. We couldn't get it to work and all he did was completely freak out when he was in it. I've been around dogs barking, so I know what's pretty normal and what he was doing wasn't the least bit normal. He was shaking and panicking and doing other nonnormal doggie things. So, on Sunday when he had a major freakout before church, we decided to let it go and since then, he's been a lot more normal and he's been very good.
We've put up a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, so now he just stays downstairs 24/7. He hasn't torn anything up and he's had very few potty accidents. (And when he has had an accident, we've pretty much realized that it was our fault and that we didn't take him out soon enough! "Oh, so that's what that means when he does that! :-))
He absolutely loves raw hides. It's a bit ridiculous. We give him one and he won't rest until it's been destroyed. He's like a super-duper chewer. (At least it's his toys and not any of our stuff!)
He's also an unbelievably fast runner. I usually let him off the leash after our morning walks (from about 5:45-6:30 a.m. on the days that I go into the office) at the beginning of our cul-de-sac and he just takes off flying to the house. He's so fast that he can run to the front door, look back and realize that I've only taken (literally) 5 steps and then he runs around the house 3 times as fast as lightning, realizes I'm only about half way up the cul-de-sac and then comes flying back running to me, and then runs back to the door. It's pretty freaking cute, but it's unreal how quick he is. I think he's going like 20 mph. Hopefully, we can get it on film some time.
In the house, he's really calmed down quite a bit. Last week, I taught him "sit!" and he's sooo good at it. When we say it (even without a treat) he sits immediately. If we have a treat, he'll hold the sit for as long as we hold the treat. It's pretty impressive. Sometimes we'll be getting ready to get him a treat and he'll already be sitting! On Tuesday, we start our beginner doggie training class at PetSmart, so we're really excited to see how that goes. I think he'll be an A+ student! He's basically motivated to do about anything for food.
He's pretty timid around new people and dogs at first, but as soon as he warms up, he gets very excited and loving. He's already had a playdate with one of the doggies down the street (Hudson). And he's been pretty good when my family has stayed with us on the weekends. We think that he'll continue to improve as we go through the doggie classes.
On the house front, we finally have a green front yard! Yes, we actually have sod! (Ironically, it arrived a few days before the Parade of Homes started! How convenient.) We've watered it pretty frequently and it's looking really good. They also completely redid our backyard and laid more hydroseed, which is also coming up quite nicely. It seems to have a bit fewer weeds than the first "yard." The other nice thing is that we haven't had to mow for quite a while! (And by "we," I mean "Brian," but you probably already knew that.)
I am COMPLETELY loving working from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. It is so nice, I get so much more done, and I only have to get gas every two weeks.
The mighty Apps are 3-2 on the season and are actually playing away for the next two weekends, so I'm going to be in town! Saturday's game is at Samford in Alabama (who suck) and next week is at Georgia Southern in Statesboro (who are usually pretty good, but only fair this year). This week's game isn't on TV.
Next week is on SportSouth, which we used to not get, until I Internet-ed up DirecTV and added the sports pack ($12/month) and now we pretty much get every sports channel in the country; see, for example:
Everything chez LeBlanc has been going really well, but we've been super busy. I've been really busy at work and we've been really busy at home actually having someone to take care of!
Little Gatsby has been adjusting pretty well. He absolutely hated the crate. We couldn't get it to work and all he did was completely freak out when he was in it. I've been around dogs barking, so I know what's pretty normal and what he was doing wasn't the least bit normal. He was shaking and panicking and doing other nonnormal doggie things. So, on Sunday when he had a major freakout before church, we decided to let it go and since then, he's been a lot more normal and he's been very good.
We've put up a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, so now he just stays downstairs 24/7. He hasn't torn anything up and he's had very few potty accidents. (And when he has had an accident, we've pretty much realized that it was our fault and that we didn't take him out soon enough! "Oh, so that's what that means when he does that! :-))
He absolutely loves raw hides. It's a bit ridiculous. We give him one and he won't rest until it's been destroyed. He's like a super-duper chewer. (At least it's his toys and not any of our stuff!)
He's also an unbelievably fast runner. I usually let him off the leash after our morning walks (from about 5:45-6:30 a.m. on the days that I go into the office) at the beginning of our cul-de-sac and he just takes off flying to the house. He's so fast that he can run to the front door, look back and realize that I've only taken (literally) 5 steps and then he runs around the house 3 times as fast as lightning, realizes I'm only about half way up the cul-de-sac and then comes flying back running to me, and then runs back to the door. It's pretty freaking cute, but it's unreal how quick he is. I think he's going like 20 mph. Hopefully, we can get it on film some time.
In the house, he's really calmed down quite a bit. Last week, I taught him "sit!" and he's sooo good at it. When we say it (even without a treat) he sits immediately. If we have a treat, he'll hold the sit for as long as we hold the treat. It's pretty impressive. Sometimes we'll be getting ready to get him a treat and he'll already be sitting! On Tuesday, we start our beginner doggie training class at PetSmart, so we're really excited to see how that goes. I think he'll be an A+ student! He's basically motivated to do about anything for food.
He's pretty timid around new people and dogs at first, but as soon as he warms up, he gets very excited and loving. He's already had a playdate with one of the doggies down the street (Hudson). And he's been pretty good when my family has stayed with us on the weekends. We think that he'll continue to improve as we go through the doggie classes.
On the house front, we finally have a green front yard! Yes, we actually have sod! (Ironically, it arrived a few days before the Parade of Homes started! How convenient.) We've watered it pretty frequently and it's looking really good. They also completely redid our backyard and laid more hydroseed, which is also coming up quite nicely. It seems to have a bit fewer weeds than the first "yard." The other nice thing is that we haven't had to mow for quite a while! (And by "we," I mean "Brian," but you probably already knew that.)
I am COMPLETELY loving working from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. It is so nice, I get so much more done, and I only have to get gas every two weeks.
The mighty Apps are 3-2 on the season and are actually playing away for the next two weekends, so I'm going to be in town! Saturday's game is at Samford in Alabama (who suck) and next week is at Georgia Southern in Statesboro (who are usually pretty good, but only fair this year). This week's game isn't on TV.
Next week is on SportSouth, which we used to not get, until I Internet-ed up DirecTV and added the sports pack ($12/month) and now we pretty much get every sports channel in the country; see, for example:
- FSN Ohio
- FSN Rocky Mountain
- FSN Houston
- FSN Wisconsin
- Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
- Altitude Sports and Entertainment
- NESN
- FSN Cincinnati
- YES
- FSN Arizona
- The MTN.
- SportsTime Ohio
- NBA TV
- TVG--The Interactive Horse Racing Network
- The Outdoor Channel
- CBS College Sports
- ESPN-U
- Fox Soccer Channel
- GOL TV
- FoxSports en Espanol
- Comcast Sportsnet New England
- MSG
- MSG+
- MSG2
- MSG - Buffalo
- SportsNet NY
- FSN Pittsburgh
- Comcast SportsNet Mid Atlantic
- Sun Sports
- FSN Florida
- FSN Detroit
- Comcast SportsNet Chicago
- FSN North
- FSN Southwest
- FSN Midwest
- FSN Northwest
- FSN West
- FSN Prime Ticket
- Comcast SportsNet California
Yeah, that might be a bit excessive, but it will be awesome to watch the Apps play on SportSouth (the only channel that we really wanted [and by "we," I mean "me," but you probably already knew that]) and we kinda like sports (in case you hadn't noticed), so I'm sure we'll find some stuff to watch.
Oh yeah, and a lot of those have HD feeds, so we really get two channels for a lot of those.
AND, we got Center Ice, so Brian will never miss a hockey game again.
All is well in the world.
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