Re: New Favourite

2003-07-31 Thread Melissa Leaist
al Message - From: "Pat Long & Paul Dangel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Melissa Leaist'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Bernese Mountain Dog Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: RE: New Fa

New Favourite

2003-07-31 Thread Melissa Leaist
Well the Mutt and Jeff saga continues in our house. Bear is doing a fantastic job with one of her many big sister duties: teaching Jude what constitutes the very bestest of treatsCORN ON THE COB!!! yummy! It's a tradition handed down from Mischa, then Liebe, and now from Bear. Corn on the c

Re: Donna and her freckles!

2003-07-29 Thread Melissa Leaist
Rose, I'm glad to hear that freckles haven't stood in your way in championships. I find the freckles an endearing quality on my Jude. She has quite a few as do many of her litter mates. It's probably the first thing I noticed about her physically and fell in love with.those and the small rus

Hot spots?

2003-07-25 Thread Melissa Leaist
Hi all, Not surprisingly after spending her day damp while getting treated for heat stroke last week, our Jude has the very earliest stages of a hot spot forming on her left hip. We've not experienced one with her, but we hear from the breeder she lived with for the first year and a half that she

Re: the heat

2003-07-22 Thread Melissa Leaist
Hi Rhona, I hope I haven't caused anybody any undue stress. The heat is definitely something that I've realized we have to be particularly mindful of, but only you know your dog well enough to be able to decide what is best for him or her. If you feel uncomfortably hot, chances are they will too.

Re: Dogs left in cars in summer

2003-07-20 Thread Melissa Leaist
Wow! After my terrible ordeal with Jude on Friday, hearing this story sure makes me mad! When you consider that a pup can get heat exhaustion or heat stroke without much warning anyways, why put them at such risk in a car! Bad people! Bad! Thanks for the warning, Melissa - Original Message

Update on Jude

2003-07-18 Thread Melissa Leaist
Hi everyone, Thanks so much to those who sent such kind notes of support about our ordeal with Jude and her scary bout of heat exhaustion. I don't think I've ever been so scared for a pup in my entire life. I'm so pleased to say that we have her home with us now. She is quite sedated from the

Scare of my life

2003-07-18 Thread Melissa Leaist
Hi all, I just had to writeif for no other reason than to help myself calm my frazzled nerves. We just took my girl Jude (2yo) to a park with trails to visit the breeder we got her from and her litter mate Abbey. We got to the end of the boardwalk, about a 20 minute walk. Up to that point,

Re: Petsmart Classes

2003-07-02 Thread Melissa Leaist
I had a good experience with a Basic Class at PetSmart as well. We took our 18 month old Berner Jude there because she was in great need for socialization when we got her from the breeder. At that time, she LOVED other animals but was quite shy with people. We included our 5 year old Husky/Chow

Re: sit down strike

2003-06-02 Thread Melissa Leaist
Hi Mandie, We had a similar problem with an 18 month old name Jude. For us, the problem was more related to her being really very shy after coming to us from the breeder and needing a lot of socialization but I do hear that Berners have a feisty stubborn streak anyways! For us, putting Jude on a