New Face In Our Family
 

Sorry I haven't been as attentive as normal this last week,:o but a new face has arrived in the family.

A new grandchild you ask? :confused:

NO! (have enough of those :hair: ) This is better. :D

You may have noticed I'm a bit of a pup person and I guess I've passed that on to my offspring. :) After a lot of consideration beyond the normal "should we get a pet?" questions, my son has added a canine to his household. :rolleyes: The really different part is he is going to be expected to earn his keep. :nod:

Most of you also know my son is a cop in our fair burg. After a nagging personal want and the apparent occupational hole in the local services, he set about researching and formally purposing that a K-9 addition would be a self-supporting service the department needed.

He was told "that's a good idea, but there is NO budget to establish it. If you can raise the $35k, we'll do it" :faint:

We have a pup. :D

(only those interested in the uniqueness of a police dog need read on)

Gorgeous specimen. Hopefully he'll be a loyal friend and partner for many years to come for whole family.

"Onco" is an 8 month old male imported from Germany, one month ago, to the
Von der haus Gill German Shepherds Inc. kennels.

Last Thursday, No.1 son left for a small town near the Indiana border to first be interviewed/inspected all day Friday, then after passing, work with and select from 7 possible dogs, his to-be partner. Sunday night Onco came home.

He came from Germany with the name "Onco" (which no one seems to be able to find a translation or meaning of :confused: ) and while he could be renamed, it would only be confusion to relearn a new name. At this point we are only interested in 'learning' and not 'UNlearning', so he IS Onco. :)

Onco is acclimating to living in a house for the first time and has learned how steps work in the last two days. He has met his first little people and we are happy to say he does not think they are food. :D (He's working on that lesion with the 2 cats :banghead: They aren't too pleased with him either. :rolleyes2 )

Cats= the other white meat.
Cats were put on this earth for two reasons, targets and chili. lol

Onco sleeps in his crate/cage in the dinning room for now and is being introduced to one or two new people at a time. The next week and a half will be spent 'bonding' with partner and learning to be part of a people pack. Then he and No1 return to Von der haus Gill for 6 weeks where they'll be cross trained together in three disciplines. They'll come home on the wekends and YES, ......... I will be there to see what they have learned. :D (especially the son :hair: )



I'll keep you posted as early developments happen. :)

He looks beautiful! We have a German Sheppard mix (we rescued him at 8 months old) and still working hard to move more towards the learning aspect and away from the unlearning part! We have a pitbull/collie mix who actually just shakes her head and rolls her eyes at our fiesty pup (the pitbull is about 12).

Amazing pics and great additions to any family!

I agree, any animal is a wonderful addition to any family so long as it's the right animal for them. I wish you and your son's portion of the family good luck and congratulations.

Yes I can see the family resemblance? :thumbs:






:roflmao:

I hope all works out for your son, I know 3 officers who have K-9 partners and they all love their job. One officer actually has 2 dogs, the older one is now retired and is a family pet.

It's good to hear that one of the dogs got to the point of retirement and that the cops are doing well and still love their job.

PF, beautiful dog! Good luck to son and family.

Great looking dog, PF! :thumbs:

We have some excellent k-9 units here. Glad he was able to see his idea to fruition.

Awwww

I'll be sending a pillow slip i've slept on for him to learn my scent *L*...i want a poochie cuddle when i eventually get there..without teeth!

Very cool PF!!!!!


At the old job I used to let this gal bring in the service pups she was training. Its hard to train in public when the public wants to pet the puppy.