Today is Rob’s birthday and I always like to get him little gag gifts. This year I got a football jersey for Lexie, but I got a San Francisco 49ers jersey and Rob is a die hard Raider fan. Lexie modeled it last night for the Niner-Dallas pre-season game.
We had family over for dinner last night. We had a wonderful fruit tort for dessert. Unfortunately, Lexie decided to try out counter surfing for the first time and got to enjoy some of the leftover tort that we hadn’t put away yet. That will teach us to leave food on the counters with a growing labrador in the house.
This weekend we went to downtown Pleasant Hill to shop at City Dogs. I just love this store, they have great dog treats, collars, leashes and toys. The staff is super friendly and very helpful. The owner has a black lab, so she’s very knowledgeable about labbies and their needs.
While we were in Pleasant Hill we met up with two older labs, a mixed breed, and their owner. The mixed breed had come from Mexico. I guess in Mexico they euthanize female, stray dogs to cut back on the stray dog population. She said you can adopt any female dog you find on the street by going to a vet there, paying $20.00, and giving the dog some kind of pill. The dog was beautiful. Lexie tried to play bitey face with the two older labs, but they weren’t all that interested in her antics.
The dog closest to Lexie weighs in at 120 pounds (down from 140…Yikes!). The other dog is around 100 pounds. Lexie is around 50 pounds.
Since they wouldn’t play with her, she decided to play bitey face with the water fountain. This is my first attempt with video on my camera. You can watch the YouTube video or you should see a link at the bottom of this post to play the movie of Lexie playing bitey face with the fountain.
Lexie is growing like crazy, she’s about 50 pounds now and she’s lost a majority of her puppy teeth. If you look at her mouth in the picture below, you should be able to see her little mouth is pretty empty.
Wait, can’t see? Try this one.
We’re very happy that those little, razor-sharp, puppy teeth are falling out. We’re giving her lots of chew toys, ice cubes, and frozen wash clothes.
She seems to be losing a lot of teeth at the doggie park. She’s still playing like a crazy puppy and she’s still as adorable as ever!
Lexie graduated from PetSmart Puppy Kindergarten this afternoon. I have very mixed feelings about the class, mainly because I discovered that one of the pups in class was not properly vaccinated. We considered dropping out, but since she was fully vaccinated by the time we found out and the routine and learning under very distracting circumstances was good for her we decided to keep her enrolled. Besides, we didn’t want her to be a kindergarten drop-out. I did decide to enroll her concurrently in Sirius Puppy Training, which I’m really pleased with.
I just learned last week that we would be tested on all that we learned in the eight week class. I wasn’t too worried (ha!), she went into the class already knowing many of the commands, but her staying skills leave something to be desired and when she’s in pet stores the leash isn’t very loose.
We got to PetSmart a bit earlier and we practiced walking around the store and she was doing great. When it came time for her to actually test, she did great! She even did a sit stay and a down stay for me. She only broke the stay when I turned around…that was really my fault because I’ve been encouraging her to come to me by turning around. She is much more reliable on visual cues than verbal, so she did what she thought she was supposed to do.
I tried to get some graduation pictures, but she was too tired. We went to the beach yesterday and I took her to the dog park this afternoon, so when we got home all she wanted to do was sleep.
She got up when I went to go to the kitchen, but she basically just positioned herself in front of the door.
I tried to add some distractions that usually get her excited like fuzz and my other furkid George, but she still wasn’t up for a photo shoot.
I did decide to enroll her concurrently in 
