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At nine months old he is a different dog than he was at nine weeks old when we started with Sidekick. I continue to keep him in training classes and continue working with him at home and he continues to grow into his individuality as a dog. I know he will never be perfect, but he is growing into such a great companion for me and for my senior Boxer, Claireese. I couldn’t have been more elated at that point! I just couldn’t believe that he actually was able to pass! That was such a huge milestone for Caesar and me and it made all the frustrated days and nights and all the questioning myself about him seem to disappear. At the end of her story about Caesar, she handed me his diploma and his paperwork saying he passed his Star Puppy.

Carrie stopped when she got to Caesar and started with, “I have to tell everyone a little story about Caesar…” and she told everyone where he was when he started and where he was at on that day. She gave everyone their papers and Caesar was the last. Never the less, he was starting to come out of the bad behaviors and into more positive ones and being friendly to Carrie and my veterinarians-no more eating of the trainer or the vets! I still, to this day, have to have the vet cut his toenails though, but that’s not so bad as compared to before.Īt the end of our last session in February, on Graduation day, Carrie was handing out the diplomas as usual. I spent a lot of time at home working on stays and other things that I felt like he was a little behind on and he was seemingly doing really well in class and listening better and so forth. I felt a little disappointed he might never get to that point, but I settled with the idea that it didn’t mean he was a horrible puppy and would become a horrible adult.Īfter passing the Absolutely Adolescence class, I decided after the first of the year I would run him through his class again to reiterate the behaviors taught. She also reminded me that it was okay if you puppy doesn’t pass, that she even had ones that never passed it for one reason or another. Over the course of this session, I asked Carrie several times if Caesar would ever pass his Star Puppy and she kept telling me she wasn’t sure at that point, but he had until he was one year old to do it. Carrie began to think that the poor behavior that Caesar was exhibiting was in direct relation to having the UTI as a little puppy. In these seven or eight weeks, I worked with Caesar at home and in class with the help of Carrie and her assistants. We passed Positively Puppies at the end of the session (I think it was more of a no puppy left behind thing!) and moved on to Absolutely Adolescence that ended shortly before Christmas. When his round of antibiotics was over, his urine rechecked and clean, Carrie was able to really help me get Caesar more focused so I could hopefully break all the poor behaviors that were present. Apparently he had had this UTI for a while, but all the “potty” problems were seemingly as normal puppies do. I thought to myself, “Great, one more thing to throw into the mix.” He was prescribed antibiotics and I was told to bring him back at the end of the medication to retest his urine and whatnot. I broke down and took him to the vet about this.Īfter trying to eat the vet, and the vet tech, we found out that he had a pretty horrible urinary tract infection. His housebreaking just wasn’t going successfully and the behavior was horrific, and the nub chewing was just the cherry on top. By about mid-session of puppy class, he started chewing on his “nub” (his tail) and was chewing it raw and did this in just a day or two, so I knew something was wrong. Poor Carrie had numerous phone calls and texts all hours of the day and night from me asking if I picked the wrong one.

He was starting to become very agitated when you tried to “calm sit” with him and restrain him and even when we were just sitting on the couch he would get an attitude.

There were several nights that I even asked myself whether or not I should maybe turn him over to rescue or find him another home. Her mom was so great to Caesar and me! And we only tried to eat Carrie once (nice way to say hello, I know), but the negative behavior seemed to keep progressing and getting worse and worse. The first day of class in Positively Puppies we did semi okay, but we loved a little Weimeriner puppy, Hailey. This was my first experience with a puppy as an adult, as I rescued the other two dogs I have had, so I knew it was going to be a challenge! But he was such a sweet boy! Little did I know… He was born Jand I got him when he was about 6 or 7 weeks old. When I first came to Sidekick with my baby Boxer, Julius Caesar, he was about nine weeks old.