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Blogathon 2007 - Post 14 - 2.30 PM
Amy and Shankar had to wait in one of the kennels, for all the dogs that were outside to go back to their enclosures, when it started pouring. Amy was not happy to be waiting inside and not be actually playing with these dogs.
She was slobbering so much, seeing all the dogs!
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Blogathon 2007 - Post 11 - 1.00 PM
Bentley is a 9 month old Chihuahua mix puppy, who has not had a good turn in life until recently. The first time he came to the ECCHA was when the owner suffered from bad allergies and could not keep him any longer. He got adopted out, but was brought back to the humane association, as he was said to be aggressive to other dogs. However, when we let Amy play with him, he did not mind her presence at all, and was not aggressive when we were giving treats to both of them. He is currently being trained by Prof. Dan Holt and team of BARC. Bentley is learning fast and will soon outgrow his puppy tendencies. We wish him a good home soon!
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Blogathon 2007 - Post 10 - 12.30 PM
No, thats correct, not Bark, but BARC - Behavioral Analysis Research in Canines. Professor Dan Holt (with his student Eric Barney below) is helping the animals at the ECCHA by applying their research.
Professor Dan Holt, faculty member in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, has been visiting ECCHA everyday, for almost 3 weeks now, with his students. Their goal is to make less adoptable dogs more adoptable. They have been doing Positive Reinforcement Training and teach dogs basic social and attending skills. This will make it easier for the dogs to find good homes soon. They are also willing to go to the homes after the dogs are adopted to help the new parents continue the training for the dogs. We say thats awesome!
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Blogathon 2007 - Post 9 - 12.00 PM
This is Zues, a one year old American Staffordshire Terrier who knows to sit, stay, down, come, fetch and to shake hands. He was very friendly with me, and also obedient, including sitting for the picture here when asked.
Zues came to the ECCHA, as his parents got a divorce and were moving. He loves to lie on furniture and to go to the park. He took his treat gently from me and I didn’t hear him bark at all! Amy did not get to meet him, as it started to rain and all the dogs outside were coming in though the corridor we were in, and she was sooo excited seeing them go by.
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Blogathon 2007 - Post 8 - 11.30 AM
When we were playing with Hampson, Renatta, was also outside, playing with someone who used to be a volunteer and also used to rehabilitate her breed. Renatta is a American Pit Bull Terrier mix. At 9 months, she is still a puppy and looking for a home where she can grow up.
Renatta came to the ECCHA as a stray in June 2006. She was adopted a few days back, actually two days before we visited. She was brought back within 23 hours, as the new parents could not handle her puppy behavior. She is a wonderful girl, loved to be petted and wanted only to play with Amy. With the right training, she would, no doubt, be a wonderful addition to a family.
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Blogathon 2007 - Post 7 - 11.00 AM
Hampson was the first dog we visited with when we went to the ECCHA last weekend. He is a Chow mix and was a stray. He is about one and a half years old and he is a little smaller than medium sized dogs.
He was already outside when we met him and he got all excited to see Amy. All he wanted to do was play with her. He is a gentle boy, who took a treat from my hand and also sat for me. He was one cute little doggie!
Amy
With Amy, since she was a stray, we had no clue about what she knew and what she didn’t. Even now she sometime surprises us, by doing something we didn’t think she knew!
Well, she was trained at the Eau Claire County Humane Association to sit. This is all we knew. When we started taking her out on walks, we realized she walks only on our left. Though she does not understand ‘ Heel’, she seems to have been in the initial process of training to heel. She did try to pull, but not in an uncontrollable way. No one has asked us if she is walking us 
A while back, when I said ‘Stop’ for something, she stopped and stood in the same spot without moving while I caught up. I suppose thats another thing she knew. I am not sure how much I can differentiate on how much she learned from us and what she knew before with respect to ‘Down’. This was something she started doing in the first week. Though we were asking her ‘to go down’ and treating for it, she might have known this before.
And the best of all things: She was house broken! I had asked the Volunteers at the Humane Association to note if she kept her kennel clean, and they were not sure. Anyways, we were careful to take her out multiple times to make sure, but within a day we realized that she knew to wait for or ask if she needs to step outside. She is a very docile dog, especially for a lab mix!
