We took our longest trip today, over 3 hours each way. Actually went real well. I set up a barrier that let the dogs have the area directly behind the front seats but couldn't go back into the cargo area and get into anything. (I once had a cell phone antenna, among other things, chewed up when I let a dog run free in the suburban.) On the first leg we left the dogs (Ziva & Duece) in the running vehicle while in a store, and they did fine. I took them both for a little walk before we left and then we had a 10 minute stop about 30 minutes from our destination and somewhere between there and the destination Duece threw up. For some reason he gets an anxiety attack when we leave him for long in the vehicle. We had a lot of fun while visiting our friends who have two Dachshunds. Duece slept most of the way home and Ziva slept a little as she doesn't want to miss anything. We stopped about 1/2 way home and left the dogs alone for awhile and it didn't seem to bother Duece. All were happy when we got home.
Duece's Blog where we keep track of Duece's training. Duece is an Australian Shepherd found at about 3 months old at the Circle of Friends Humane Society in Grand Forks, ND in December, 2008. His name when put up for adoption was "Moon" but because he's our second cadaver dog, we named him Duece and when I found out it was spelled wrong, we left it like that.
We thought we would blog our training experiences as Duece grows up and is on his way to becoming our cadaver dog and other things that Duece teaches us as we go along. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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