Come To Order

"The Meeting of the Bully Stick League will now come to order!"

Meeting business: Chew bully sticks.  Aaaand go!

Another successful meeting of the Bully Stick League.

Although they only last about 5 seconds before one of them tries to steal the other's stick and then it is game on!  Much chasing, barking (Dhali), growling (Dhali), squealing (Tibby!)  and paw pushing/smacking (Tibby).

Jerky Lurky

Look what we got!

Dhali is very helpful!  He's looking for the bully sticks.  We got 100 of them!  That should last us for a little while.

"I smell you bully sticks!  Where are you?"

And something very strange came in our order.  I ordered 3 bags of chicken jerky.  Tibby loves it and it's made in the USA, so safe unlike the China stuff we can buy in town.  Anyway....one of our bags was OPENED.  And half of the jerky was missing.  So weird.  I have never had a problem with Best Bully Sticks before and this is so strange.  Did someone in the factory get hungry and decide to snack on the jerky???

I email Best Bully Sticks and they said they will send me a replacement bag and a mailing label to send back the opened bag.

So weird.

Faster Fetching Foster

Ellie likes to fetch!  Every time we play, she gets better at bringing it back.  When I picked her up yesterday I asked, "So what kind of toys does Ellie like?"  And I was told, "Oh, she doesn't really like toys.  Yeah it's too bad she doesn't have any toy drive.  We had a flyball home looking at her, but she just isn't interested in balls.  Yeah, too bad."

LOL!!  I think she likes balls just fine! 

Tibby likes having her own personal dog to chase ;)  Although she was lagging waaaay behind when we went out again tonight.  She even sat down and just watched Ellie run after the ball.  Maybe she's a little sore???

We also went for a walk today.  I would have taken pictures, but juggling two leashes, two full poop bags AND a camera would have been too much for me.  They walked together very nicely.  Tibby was completely relaxed - zero reactive episodes or even coming close to having one.  She looked at a jogger that was running up behind us, but wagged her tail at HIM (!!) and was relaxed and happy.  Ellie is cute - whenever we stopped (Tibby sniffing, me changing hands with the leashes), she would sit down and wait for us.

I definitely see the border collie in her and the Australian Shepard.....not so much the lab.  Except she likes water a lot - to walk through and maybe swim???

The only 'issue' has been chewing.  I gave her a Kong and she chewed it in half in 2 seconds.  I gave her a bully stick and she ate it in 5 mins.  I gave her an antler and she isn't chewing it.  So somewhere between antler and bully stick I need to find the perfect chew for her.

I'm just waiting for her to feel comfortable....for the honeymoon to end!  She has been an angel in the crate.  She didn't say ANYTHING for the first 24 hours.....now she's doing a little pouting - Why does Tibby get to walk around?  Not fair!  Hey Tibby doesn't chew kongs in half, baby.

Not Touching

"Don't worry Mom.  It's not touching the carpet.  I know the rule!"

She Can Do It

I never thought I would see the day that Tibby could relax in her crate.  Ta da!  She can.

Now I just need to reinforce the wonderfulness of the crate and then get her used to being in it in different places. 

It's Official

It's official: I am not as exciting as a bully stick (we call them P(ee)-sticks in this house). If Tibby has to choose between a p-stick and me, she chooses the p-stick every time.

When my Mom found out what bully sticks were made out of she freaked out! LOL! It was hilarious.