No new pictures for today (yet ...)
Our new boy has got a voice on him when he gets upset. Unlike Scout, who's got kind of a wimpy bark, and who doesn't bay (that deep-throated Beagle woooooooooooo ...) much unless she's really worked up, Digory's got a more traditional-sounding deep-voiced Beagle bark, and he's already done some baying -- he's got the lungpower to sustain his woooooooo pretty well. I can't wait to see what happens the first time he sees a squirrel or something else he thinks that we can go hunt. Fortunately he doesn't bark all that much -- he gets upset when we leave or when we come home, but that doesn't last very long. He hasn't been barking when he goes in his crate at night; he was barking to get out this morning, but I think that was set off by Scout, who's turned into an incurable morning barker.
He was a good boy for most of yesterday -- but around the end of the day, he tried to get dominant on Scout (including a few attempts at humping -- which reminded us that we need to make sure that Digory is in fact neutered, since that's one piece of his paperwork that was missing ...), and she was having none of that. I think that we just didn't tire him out enough, since I didn't do the walkies or the marathon run-in-the-yard session that we had the day before.
He's almost learned "sit" -- it happens sometime, but not all the time. We're hunting around for a trainer so that we can teach him some of the other things he should have learned by now.
[2 PM UPDATE: After input from our readers -- plus an "aha!" moment of our own -- we realized that there's a really easy way to tell whether or not Digory's been neutered, given that he's a male dog and all. Given that he is indeed missing -- ahem -- some original equipment, now it's clear that Digory's just a humping enthusiast, rather than a dog who's trying to accomplish something. This is what I get for writing an entry before I'm fully awake in the morning ...]
Posted by Kevin at February 2, 2005 08:17 AM