Since my last post on my adorable tripawd has had a few adventures recently. On one of my days off I took Shiloh out to visit my sister at work and see some people that saw him during his injury. Soon after we went over to my friends apartment. My friend had adopted a silky coated retriever named Riley about 2 years ago now. Her complex has a fenced in dog park which would give Shiloh the ability to run around without being on a leash (since he was still in the learning stages of listening to me.) Riley and Shiloh hit it off and had a wonderful time during their play-date.
Excuse the messy car in the picture. I keep everything I need for work in my car.
After the play-date we started to work on his listening skills to our commands. Over the past month he has gotten better and better at it. There were a few bumps in the road. We invested in a Halti gentle leading muzzle for him. He would refuse to go inside our building after going to the bathroom and would get out of his original harness. I know it has been a transition for him to go from a huge property outside to an apartment. Over the past month of using it he has begun to listen to us completely. Even allowing us to take it off and revert back to using his harness and he has been such a good boy without it (up to this current moment as I write this). Recently my sister and I bought the Ezydog Convert Harness. It works wonderfully on him, however with his thin and silky coat it does slip quite a bit. Looking into what I may or may not be able to sew into it to get the shifting to stop. Other then the shifting it is a wonderful harness and I love how it looks on him.
With the new harness we also brought him a 50 foot leash so he can run around outside at our complex but…..
He loves to smell everything and anything but I know in time he will figure out what fetch means.
He has learned so much living with us and I am exteremely proud of his accomplishments so far with learning to obey us. He loves to sit with us on the couch and cuddle up against us. So happy he is in our lives. Will update again soon when we have another adventure. In the meantime here are some adorable pictures of my furbaby.
Beautiful pictures thank you! So glad to see Shiloh fitting in so well, he looks so happy and so do you! Merry Christmas!
Jackie and Huck 🎄🎅🌲
Thank you so very much!! Merry Christmas to you!!
Jackie and Shiloh!
Awwww now you just made our hearts flip flop with that last adorable photo. Hoppy Pawlidays Shiloh and family!
It’s really cool to see how much you’re putting into his training so that he can live up to being the great dog he is destined to become. Looks like he’s practically there. What a sweetie.
As for the Convert harness….yeah it does fit great but the sliding thing is a pain, I know. It shouldn’t totally fall off, but when there’s no second front leg it will rotate just a bit on some dogs. Remember you can tighten up the velcro chest strap too, not just the belly one. On smooth coat dogs it does tend to rotate a bit more so I’m thinking that maybe if you wanted to play around with sewing some sheepskin type fabric underneath the harness it might stay in place better. Let us know what you discover, and thanks for shopping with Tripawds!
Thank you so very much and Happy holidays to you and your family! That’s a great idea about the sheepskin I will totally look into that!! Thank you for the advice.