My sister's dogs and Training

As you have probably gathered by now, my sister has a lot of dogs. In fact, I have trouble keeping track of them all. Here are some of them:

This is Rishy. Rishy was the runt of the litter of pups that their dogs Lady and Kye had. Rishy is still half the size of the other pups in the litter and she is about 5 months old now. We are hoping she becomes like a miniature shepherd (which would be so cool as they are sooooo big). Rishy is very beautiful but a real handful and they really have to try to spend more time training her. Rishy will stay as a pet.

From the left, here are Max (Australian Shepherd), Sarge (a 9 week old pup of another litter that Kye is the father of), and Lady (another rescue dog - Lady was close to death when they rescued her from a family that had no idea how to look after a shepherd pup and had been unknowingly starving her). Lady is now very beautiful and healthy.


This is the big man Kye - Kye is beautiful and beautifully trained. he is like a big teddy bear, extremely gentle but huge.

and finally Old man Rollie - Rollie is a very old Shitzu/Maltese cross and he prefers to stay indoors away from the other dogs.

Here are a couple of photos from the training session - all the dogs walking nicely in a circle:

Here are the dogs sitting and staying perfectly.

In two weeks the Yarram show is on, and these dogs will be demonstrating dog obedience lessons. They are very excited but also very nervous that their dogs will all behave on the day.
They also have (I think) 4 or 5 of Kye and Lady's other pups that they are training for the RAAF. I think Sarge is also destined for the RAAF when he gets a little bigger.

Another picture of Kye - stay standing on a beam:

and Kye sitting (I know I have lots of pictures of Kye but he is just so cute):

And finally new recruit Sarge getting used to some of the training aids:


ok - better go clean the kitchen up - apparently it isn't a self cleaning kitchen.

p.s. no progress on the knitting - so now you know that I really don't have time for knitting - hehe (1 stitch at a time).