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01/24/2023

Sam says this better be for a really good reason…🧼🛀

It is, bud. I promise!

01/22/2023

Our favorite crazy GSP has some BIG NEWS!!

Samuel will go home to his new family this week and we can’t wait to follow along with his future adventures 🤍

12/18/2022

Sam is enjoying the warm fire on place - while we eat in peace 😇

Interested in adopting this sweet, silly, high-octane pup? Shoot us a message and we’ll get you in touch with SE GSP Rescue!

11/30/2022

Sam is available for adoption!!

Are you his perfect family!?

Who is Sam?
Sam is about 15 months old and is a purebred German Shorthaired Pointer who, according to rescue’s info, was picked up as a stray. Sam is unusually athletic and high drive (yes, even for a young GSP!) but also has a great off switch in the house. Sam does not show any separation anxiety and does fine in a crate when left at home.

What does Sam want/need?
Sam’s ideal home would be a single dog home (negotiable, based on your dog experience and the other dogs in the home) with no cats (sorry, not negotiable, unless you don’t like your cat 🤷🏼‍♀️) with an owner who wants to pursue a sport with him. Sam is not suited for a “weekend warrior” type home - he needs mental/physical work almost every day. Sam loves to play in the yard and can amuse himself for quite a while that way…BUT he can also clear a 6’ fence if he wants to. He doesn’t show any desire to escape and has only done this when a ball went over a fence, but a tall fence is a good plan. Sam needs people with a good sense of humor, because he’s a goofy, silly boy who’s full of happiness and loves to show it.

Sam shows potential in the following sports:
- Dock Diving (love of water + high ball drive)
- Scent work (ability to use his nose to find specific toys/items hidden for him + high toy/food drive)
- Barn Hunt (good prey drive + trainability)
- Agility (incredible athleticism + trainability)
- Canicross (high drive + loves to be active)
- Frisbee (possibly - he’s got high toy drive, we just haven’t tested frisbees specifically).

What does Sam know?
Sam is crate trained and house trained. Sam knows place, sit, down, and wait, along with some fun tricks. Sam walks well on a leash and has a stellar off-leash recall.

Who do I contact?
Sam is available for adoption through Southeast GSP Rescue. They adopt to the following states: AL, MS, TN, NC, SC, GA & FL. They do not adopt to families with kids under six years old.

11/02/2022

We are so wildly behind in Sam updates 🤦🏼‍♀️

The hours in the day get divided between the tiny human and the dogs….and social media gets the short end of the stick!

Sam is making some ✨big✨ strides with us!

He loves having a routine and structure - he’s settled in here, goes in his his crate happily and plays in the yard in his group like a champ.

His “place” work is coming along really nicely as we build duration and his leash walking is really lovely.

He is fairly chill during his “free” time in the house and redirects from things he shouldn’t touch with a simple “ah ah!”

Sam is going to make a really incredible partner for someone looking to do nosework, barn-hunt, agility, dock-diving or something similar (canicross, anyone!?) - he has performance written all over him and the temperament to go with it!

10/21/2022

We get really excited when a dog figures things out 😂

Sam started leash manners this week and is (again) proving himself to be a quick learner.

10/20/2022

This boy is SMART.

He is also exceedingly athletic and very fast!

He came to us with a mention of possible resource guarding with other dogs and we have not been able to replicate that with any of our dogs. He has good play behavior and enjoys a good game of chase.

We are spending a lot (like a whole lot) of time on impulse control because this boy has…none 😬

10/16/2022

We always spend the first day or two getting to know a new dog and letting them get used to the new place.

Sam acts like he’s lived here his whole life, so we’ve already added in some new rules and games.

We’ve also learned he can fly 😅

He loves his ball and we will use that (along with food rewards) to shape his behavior. He’s a neat dog!

10/15/2022

Hi guys! It’s been a minute!

Our tiny human is almost six months old and when we got a message from a rescue we’ve worked with before, asking if we could help out with this guy, we happily said yes!

This guy is an adolescent male GSP with a history of some resource guarding toward other dogs. He bounced into our house with more confidence than we usually see in client dogs and happily took food right away. Meet Sam!

Stay tuned for his updates!

07/04/2022

Winnie (10 months) working on ”place” and her recall. We use these behaviors to e-collar condition our dogs as well - they learn to turn off the pressure by performing the requested behavior and then earn a reward.

We use a distanced place command, as well as a recall, to e-collar condition so the dogs do not associate e-collar pressure only with coming TO the handler - we can also send them away with it.

You’ll see Winnie is very happy and waggy during this session! When we introduce an e-collar in a constructive, clear way, the dogs are happy to play the game.

06/12/2022

Doing some restrained sends to place with Winnie. Through the use of opposition reflex we are creating a strong desire to go to the place board. In this session Winnie knows exactly what we are working on and knows she is about to be sent to her place. She is dragged incrementally further away from the board and then released to go to it. We don’t normally do this with pet dogs when we teach them place because we want them to relax, but we are using the place command differently with Winnie. It will be used to assist in e-collar conditioning her. We taught her a recall using the e-collar, but for the work that she will be doing it is really important for her to want to run away from the handler and this is a great way to teach her that the e-collar doesn’t alway mean “come here”

05/26/2022

Working on some leash manners while wearing the baby!!

Walks are great way to integrate the dogs into new life with the baby. Charlie has no conception of if we walk around the neighborhood or just do circles right in front of our house. Taking time to properly teach leash manners makes all the difference down the road when we start trying to go on actual walks.

If you want the dog to behave a certain way you have to teach them! We can’t just expect that they will walk nicely now that the baby is here, so we take some of our normal walking time and dedicate it to just teaching.

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