I’m starting to get to know this little monster! “Moaning” upon awakening means she’s awake, but about to go back to sleep, so getting her up and taking her out to urinate is not necessary.… 

Laevatein is asleep in her crate. Her head is in her snap-on food dish. Most telling, there was no screaming when she went into her crate, only a little whining. Does that suggest the day… 

Remind me never to do this again. We left home today to head to Purina Farms for the UDC Nationals. Laev was in her ex pen for a couple of hours prior to departure, during… 

I went to the rear of the car, raised the tailgate to release the dogs. Shakespeare was at the front of his crate, of course. From Laevatein’s crate I heard a soft, steady, thump, thump,… 

Yes, Laev is a Doberman. She is modeling her natural ears and tail and dewclaws. That’s what Dobes look like before being cropped and docked. It is jail time to crop and dock in Denmark,… 

I’m almost entirely out of the apartment, but not quite, and I clearly cannot leave her in a house where workmen might be coming through, so Laev had to go nearly everywhere with me as… 

May I present Ascomannis Laevatein, age 64 days on her arrival. I had to go to three different buildings to retrieve her — there was some confusion at the airport — but when I finally… 

She’s almost here! Lisa and Jes approved my own name choice, so when all the corrective paperwork is finished, she’ll be Ascomannis Laevatein. The puppy testing was done this week to determine which puppy went… 

Yesterday afternoon, my husband asked me, “So, what will this new puppy be? Is it going to be a Schutzhund dog? Or is it going to do obedience? Or agility?” “Yes,” I said. “Schutzhund, obedience,… 

Yesterday afternoon my doggie friend Linda called me with a last-minute idea that we would drive down two states together to see the American Working Dog Federation nationals. So we left this morning at 3:30…