The dog with no trust

Tanaya, taken from a pretty far distance, with a very nice camera.
She really wanted the food.

I want to introduce you all to Tanaya. She's a beautiful little cream doxie with just stunning color. Tanaya is not my dog, but I decided to do a blog about her for a few reasons. Tanaya doesn't trust, although she is not mine I have lived with her for about 4 or 5 months, and she still barely looks at me. I know the situation (or at least from what I could tell) that Tanaya came from was a wonderful home, but I believe the problem was she only had to deal with one person, and being in a new place after flying simply terrified her. I've been trying now, the entire time I've lived with her, to win over her trust. I've tried bribing her with food & toys, keeping her in my bedroom and spending time with her, anything you can imagine. She has got to the point that if she is in an enclosed area (with no way of escaping) she will CONSIDER coming and sitting by me so I may pet her, of course on the terms that I don't look at her. Same goes for food, if the reward is good enough and I don't look at her (or even in her direction) she'll consider taking it from me, though she prefers not to take it out of my hand, she will if the reward is good enough. She seems to be curious, but too fearful to actually let her curiosity get the better of her. She's extremely intelligent and it shows, if there is any possible way to escape a situation where she caught me glance at her even, she WILL figure it out. Keep in mind I have never done anything to harm or scare this dog. But, the key is to keep trying, although it is extremely frustrating, living with a dog that you can't even look at, you can't give up.

How bad do you want it?

Once again things have been going crazy, I've ended up placing both Audi and Cowboy. Both are doing extremely well and the families love the dogs. Of course, anyone who has placed a dog in a new home understands how heartbreaking it is. But that's not what this blog is about today, this blog is about passion, about all the things that you'll never be able to figure out using logic. Some people don't understand why I do the things I do, why I focus my life around my dogs, why I do anything and everything to make them happy. Vixy had a seizure early Sunday morning, I almost lost my best friend. I was terrified, but now I see everything in a new light. I realize that no matter what life throws at us we can triumph anything, me and my dogs. In this life people constantly seem to tell me only the strong survive, it's evolution right? But life isn't all about the strong, us underdogs, the ones that have come from behind, realize that all life takes is passion. Sometimes we lose ourselves, trying to solve every little problem, trying to make sense of everything, trying to make sense of life, but in life, things don't always add up. We have to learn that we can't question everything that sometimes we just have to accept something as it is. We have to welcome it into our lives. Not everything is about logic. I've always been the person to ask "What if?" I asked myself on Sunday morning "What if I had just lost her? What if she had died?" and then I looked at her and I realized, the 'what if's' aren't important. They aren't reality, it's not what happened, so now I find myself in situations (even within these past few days) where I'll be about to question something and I just say to myself "No what if's this time, just accept it, just do it, you're strong enough". When I look at life, when I think passion, when I think about anything I love, there's always that one question that anybody should ask themselves "How bad do I really want it?" That's how I look at the things I love, how can you ever get better if you have no kind of passion for it, if you have no desire to become better, without that desire, that passion, you'll never become better, you'll never be all that you can be. When I think about my dreams, my goals, everything I want for myself in the future, I know that if I want it bad enough, if I have enough passion, I can have and do anything I want. When you see someone who has failed to achieve their goals, their dreams, just remember that they could have it, just like you can, they just didn't want it bad enough. So don't waste time complaining, whining that you can't do it, because you can do it, you can do anything you want to do, of course in life there will always be consequences but all you need to ask yourself is how bad you want it.

Lots of News!!

       Not only has it been forever since I updated (mostly cause I'm overly lazy) but I have a crazy amount of news. Chloe and Vixy's pups both grew up wonderfully, I decided to keep Chloe's pups, Audi. Audi is honestly the most well-behaved dog I've ever own, and I know she's going to give her momma a run for her money when it comes to agility. Although I have a great bond with her mom and my other dogs, I have to admit that I have the strongest bond with Audi, possibly because she's only ever lived with me, and I'm the one who raised her, but she's absolutely perfect on so many levels.

       Now, I know how many times I've been looking at pups (whom are not dachshunds) BUT it's finally happened!!!!! I want to proudly introduce my little Miniature Australian Shepherd pup, Cowboy. He's the most annoying ball of fluff I've ever met, and I absolutely love him!! I haven't started training with him other than a few manners, since he's the most obnoxious little crap head ever, and likes to just be a brat. But again, I love him to death, so I just get over it, it's impossible to stay mad at him. He loves to lay in the kitchen and sleep on the tile floor where it's nice and cool, I just can't wait to start some real training with him. 

       It's finally starting to cool off here in Texas and we'll finally be able to do some real agility, Liberty and Rockit are old enough to start some agility (oooo real excited!!!! (: ) and the babies will all be learning some real solid foundation techniques. I have so much to teach them before they get to start agility. School has been kicking my butt lately and I feel like I'm never around and when I am I'm so overly busy, things are constantly busy in my little world! Sometimes I seriously just need a break from most the world and will go spend a night out with just little Audi girl, or one of the other dogs. I hope all is well with everyone else!

Much Love,

The Static Crew

Wow it's been a while

Well for some reason I couldn't update my blog (it just wasn't working). So, I haven't updated since April 19th, say what!? Ok so TONS has happened since then, we'll start with Pearl. Pearl has started partial raw, and is looking great, all the dogs are on Orijen kibble for now (hope to have them all transitioned to full raw by October), that's pretty much it for her. Vixy, she had puppies on June 18th, so they're about to be 3 weeks old on Monday, they're absolutely wonderful! I have had to bottle feed this litter as there are 7 pups in this litter, and I didn't think Vixy would be able to handle them all, but thanks to having a little help she's holding more weight feeding 7 than she did feeding 3 on her own. The pups are just starting to learn what their feet are for, and I'm absolutely loving watching them grow, they're always there to put a smile on my face, with this being Vixy's last litter (even though it was tough with her other 2 litters) it is going to be heart wrenching when it comes time to let them go, though I know they will go to the best homes I can possibly find for them. Vixy will be getting spayed the first week of October (giving her time for her milk to dry so she can have the operation) and I'm already nervous about it. Chloe, oh my gosh this girl! She ended up being pregnant after all, so we didn't end up having our debut (sadly), so that'll be put off till November/December, as she's getting spayed the first week of October as well. She had 4 little pups (2 boys and 2 girls) that are now two weeks old (born June 25th) they are simply stunning!! I was going to keep one BUT something came up and I decided to just place her in the best possible home I could find. So in total I have 11 babies at the moment, once they decide to start being loud and active I'm going to be constantly focused on them, although they already have most of my time/attention. Liberty, she's been doing amazing, we're currently focusing on obedience and tricks, once she's a year old we'll start to work a little more on agility. She's been getting a lot of socializing, she's still a bit noisy around strange dogs till she gets close enough to sniff and play with them, but she absolutely adores people, especially squeally little kids!! Her breeder passed away in May, her last e-mail to me was asking me to do therapy work with Liberty, so once her obedience is solid then we'll work on getting her to be a certified therapy dog, I hope to visit mostly Children's hospitals with her, but I'm going to be doing anything I can do. Rockit, the newest member of the crew, he is just such a little spit fire!!! He's the first boy in the group since my first dachshund, Chip, had to be put down. It's nice to have a boy in the pack again, though his energy levels have taken some adjusting to, but I'm loving him. He's already earned his Novice Trick Dog title and is working on learning more, he usually learns about 5-7 tricks in a week, he nails things pretty quickly. He is just simply adorable and I'm LOVING him (as I already said), he's definitely fitting in well and all the girls just love having him around. I'm not sure if I'll do anything other than tricks & agility with him, but we'll just have to see! As for me? I turned 17 on June 21st, I'm officially a senior, and can't wait for the cooler weather!! Once October rolls around we'll be doing TONS of hiking since it'll be cool enough to do it. Summer has been alright so far, haven't been getting out much, but I don't mind hanging out with the dogs, and I'm pretty sure they don't mind either. I've been working on remodeling my new (much bigger) bedroom and hope to have it finished in 4-6 months. Also, big news, I've convinced both of my parents that allowing me to own a Border Collie or Australian Shepherd is going to be ok, so I should have the new pup by March, which is super exciting! The pup is going to be name SE's Send me on my way aka "Sitka", and will no doubt be a male (no more girls for a while!). If I get a Border Collie it'll be a smooth, I'm not picky on color at all, but my aussie would definitely have to be a tri (whether red or black). But anyway, I THINK that's everything!

Baby don't follow their lead ; Who you are is not up to them ♥

Mmmmm here they come ; just getting up for the let down ; I'm here to say that you're the star you want to be ; One day this'll make you proud ~ Cartel

Yeah, they're kinda amazing. Anyway, I've had an INSANELY hard week, between drama, heartache, pain, and just plain hell. I've learned quite a few things though, I'll always have my friends there by my side to help me get past it, and when that isn't enough? I have my girls ♥ I honestly have to say my friends have been absolutely amazing this past week, so thanks to everyone who was there for me, and helped me smile a little more. I'm 90% sure I wouldn't have made it through this past week without my friends or the dogs, it's just been way to much for me to even process on my own. Sometimes people are a waste of time, so we have to move on and find new people, even if moving on hurts. They say sometimes, you're better off not knowing, and I guess in some situations that's 100% true, but in other cases, not knowing only causes problems and pain. Life's been throwing lots of obstacles at me lately, and it's been really tough to overcome a lot of those obstacles, but I know if I fall or stumble, I have friends ready to help me right back up on to my feet. Speaking of feet I painted my toe nails for the first time since Christmas! I figure since it's warm out and I walk around in either open-toe shoes or without shoes for most of the summer, I should probably make them look kinda decent. Speaking of summer, Texas is kinda unsure which direction it wants to go in,

I'll go to bed and it'll be in the high 60's or low 70's and then wake up and its all like 40 degrees out or somethin, like dude, not chill (actually its very chilly!) but its ok because it stays warm during the day. It's almost time for me to finish my junior year, sad face! I have state testing for like 3 days next week, so annoying! Chloe's focus and drive lately has really made me happy too, since it's almost time for our debut. I've also started to test the waters with teaching Chance to do agility, you see chance is one of he oldest dogs we own, being 6 1/2 almost 7 (he'll be 7 in August!), so if we do compete, which I think we will, I want to keep him at no higher then 18" even though his jump height should be 22". Anyway, Pearl has been really good, kinda spoiled lately. She's always in the house, because she doesn't like the Texas sun (kinda don't blame her). I got my term paper back in English, made an 87 which I guess is ok, but I would've liked those 3 more points to make an A, since I worked so hard on it, but oh well! I've started really looking into college, which I'm kinda scared about, I don't want to graduate high school!!!!!! Hmph, this is kind of upsetting, but it must be done. I kind of really can't wait for summer, I usually hate summer, but this year I'm extremely excited for some reason, maybe it's just because in June I have the debut, and my

17th birthday, not to mention my grandmother is coming for a visit. So much to think about! My head can't seem to process all the information I've been feeding it lately, so yeah it kinda sucks. On a brighter note, I'm breeding Vixy to Jericho, I absolutely LOVE Vixy puppies! <3 So I'm like really, really, really excited for that. I've also been super focused on everything I do, I tend to do that when I'm upset, but tomorrow I'm going to a party, I can't wait to just relax and take my mind off the worries of life for a few hours. Well, I'll update soon! Bye!



Jericho(:



Hey look a trial!

That is correct! Chloe's debut is officially set! June 16 & 17 (right before my 17th birthday) Chloe is finally getting to debut. USDAA holds a lot of trials close by, which I was unaware of. So instead of driving the 4-6 hours to a CPE trial we'll be driving 1 1/2 to a USDAA trial, which is also 4 months earlier then I had planned for her to debut (it was supposed to be in October). But either way I think we're ready (or at least she is LOL I'm always a ball of nerves) hopefully we'll rock this debut. We're gonna show the world that dachshunds can be pretty boss at whatever they do (: Sorry for the short post just thought I'd update y'all! Happy Easter!!!

When blue skies fade to grey don't tell me your passion's fading away.....

So, today was an eventful day. Not sure how else to explain it. We've had tornados all day, therefore I was at school for an extra hour today. Sitting in duck & cover I really started to think, if I died right now, would I be proud of my life? I guess in a way I would but at the same time I thought to myself, why do I do agility? What about it makes me keep doing it? I couldn't honestly come up with anything other then it makes me smile, it helps me relax. Agility is my thing, it my sport, I don't have a giant group of team members I can't stand. I have a single teammate, and we work together to do something beautiful. It's a mental thing I guess, more emotional than physical. Working side by side with your dog, you realize something, what if this was your last time to ever see them? Your best friend, your partner, your teammate, your life. What if it was all gone in an instant? Then what? I have every intention of continuing on with agility, and when people say I'll we'll never make it we'll smile and say "Watch us" because even if we're not the best, even if we're not earning titles & ribbons, we're winners, because we have eachother. So I have no intentions of letting this passion fade with the blue skies, my passion is going to soar.

It's only April? Here comes the heat & Spring Cleaning

It's only April and we're already in the high 80's here in Texas, kinda crazy huh? Me & Chloe are only practicing agility real early in the morning so that we can keep cool. Its almost time to set the pools up for the dogs, it's going to be Liberty's first summer, and it looks like its going to be a hot one at that. Thankfully we got some rain so the ponds & creeks aren't dried up, if we're lucky we won't have another dry summer, that definitely wouldn't be good. Pearl is already sticking inside, it's simply just to sunny for her and being almost bald she doesn't like any kind of heat. All 3 long coated girls prefer to be outside though, laying in the shade and grass. Libby's training is coming along really well, she's super smart, I want to eventually get her into agility and possibly flyball, so we'll se how that goes. Pearl stuck around while I cleaned the bedroom today (the bedroom as I don't have my own bedroom, the dogs own more of it then I do) though she prefer to just sit on the bed and watch me. I hope to have a better paying job soon so that I can switch all the girls over to Orijen, instead of Pedigree, I'll be getting my permit some time this week, and hopefully a job within a month, first pay is going to get them their first bag of Orijen. Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather!

My universe will never be the same ..... ♥

"I decided you look well on me, well on me" ~ The Wanted

Anyway, how is everyone? I decided today I'm gonna do a blog to introduce y'all to who I am, the mind behind all the training with the doxies.

My name is Meaghan Darling, I'm currently 16 years old and a junior in high school (two more months till I'm a senior, woot woot!) I own 4 minitaure dachshunds (eventually to be 5 (; ), yes I'm kinda stuck on the breed. I'm from Massachusetts, Fall River actually, on May 28th of 2010 I made the 1,762 mile trip to my small town in Texas. I obviously didn't want to make the move, all my family and friends (and my entire life) was in Fall River, who would want to leave that? Little did I know what an amazing change it would be. On the day that I woke up and flew to Texas, Chloe was born, I had no idea what fate had in store for me that day. When I landed in Texas it was well over 100 degrees outside, I was instantly in a mood where I thought I would absolutely hate it. Being from a big city I got into a lot of trouble growing up, "ma'am" and "sir" were insults, as it made people seem old. So hearing people say "yes ma'am", "yes sir", and "y'all" made me feel so far from what I knew to be reality. I stayed with a friend for a few weeks, staying on a farm wasn't my piece of heaven though, but it sure made me get used to it. I quickly learned to give more respect to people (only when they earn it though), deciding I was going to have to make the best of what life handed me. After a 4 1/2 months I got Chloe, my pride and joy, (Vixy & Pearl made the huge move with us) she quickly grew on me, changing my life and who I was even more. My second summer in Texas I went back to Fall River to visit family & friends for two weeks, after the first week I realized it was no longer where I belonged. When I flew back to Texas I realized my childhood was quickly coming to an end and I needed to start taking things more seriously and grow up. When school started back up I fostered a GSD/BC/Kelpie mix for a month before finding her the perfect home, gosh she was a loon! Around the end of September I was reintroduced to my best friend (and now the guy I am utterly in love with) by one of my close friends, we've been together for almost 3 months now, and I couldn't live without him. Earlier this month I brought home Liberty, a small cream longhaired doxie, who is absolutely precious. I have every intention of attending college to further my dog training skills, and then afterwards enlist in the Army, so we'll just have to see where life takes me. All this has made me realize one thing, life is going to throw obstacles at you, so you need to think fast and make the best of whatever life gives you, jump the hurdles, and keep going.

Well Hello Beautiful ♥

On March 13, 2012 I brought home the cutest little bundle of joy. Yes, she's another dachshund, but she's precious so its ok. Her name is Liberty (Libby for short) registered name? SE's Sweet Freedom. She's just simply adorable, and super smart. Though she sleeps and cries a lot, she's kinda spoiled. But I like her, cause well? You just can't deny her! I drove to Oklahoma to pick her up, she was totally worth the drive, I hope to get into agility with her eventually, but basics and foundation first! Hm, well it's absolutely beautiful outside so I'm sitting in a field with all 4 girls typing this for y'all, when I should seriously be doing homework and everything, but who wants to do homework? Yuck. Husky is still planned, I have no intentions of getting any more doxies (unless of course I steal one of my mom's males cause I love him<3) but we'll see! Hopefully I'll have another job within 2-3 months so I can get all of the girls off pedigree and on either Canidae or Orijen (I prefer Orijen though lol) anyway, just wanted to update y'all!

Finally!

Well guys, spring break is finally here!!! It looks like Monday and Tuesday will be our only nice days though, so other than monday and tuesday we'll probably just do tricks. If I can think of some that is. Let's see, haven't updated in forever, so, sorry about that, Chloe has been doing really well with her agility training. I think we'll definitely be ready to debut at the end of this year, she's finally learned to go straight from a jump to the weaves (big breakthrough). I'll aim to put up another vlog as well as some videos of all the girls this week, but no promises, becuase I'm lazy and hate making videos. Chloe will be 2 on May 28th, then I'll be a senior less than a week later. Both Chloe and Vixy should (hopefully) be fixed by then. Then (MAYBE, depending on my situation) I might be adding another doxie to the crew, a male though, no more girl doxies. As many of you know I do plan to get my husky pup on June 21st, 2013 (my 18th birthday) so I'm still not sure about the doxie boy, and if I do get him, he'll be only a trick dog/pet. He will not be an agility dog. I found a dog training college that is 2 hours from me that offers financial aid (super happy) and I hope to be going to visit some time this week. Hopefully I'll get in when I apply next year! Anyway that's all for today guys!!! Best wishes!

Doggie Dancing

Well guys I have an update on two of the doxies today! (: Chloe has been doing REALLY well with distance, including on her weaves! She's been learning some new tricks as well. I hope to be going and spending a week training a Miniature Aussie soon, though Chloe will be coming with me since she loves going to the farm. Vixy is doing a lot of confidence work too, I'm trying to get her to be more open with people and objects. Vixy has had a fear of basically everything for as long as I've had her - so we're using tricks to boost her confidence! She's learning to put her front feet on objects and turn for now, then next we're hoping to do drumming and roll over(: Anyway, happy holidays everyone!

Distance and Drive

So we've been working on a lot lately, we've moved our teeter to full height and we've got 2o2o pretty much down. We've also been working on serps as well as distance and focus. Chloe has come a long way in the past 8 or 9 months of training, but most of our break throughs have been within the last 3 months. We started out with our weaves, moving from 4 poles to 8, then adding jumps, then adding them into a small course. Afterwards we did a little more work on Chloe's drive, as she was always watching me and she needed to be looking towards the next obstacle. Serps have helped that a lot with that, since now she can do them with me standing by the first jump, now for more courses. Christmas is coming up soon and I hope to be building more jumps since I have 2 that are adjustable and 3 fixed (on which the bar can't be knocked and I don't like using.) I'm really proud of my girl, she's been doing so much better on focus within the past few weeks, although we still have moments when she runs around front on to the porch and I have to go and get her, she's gotten so much better with it. I can't believe she'll be 2 years old this coming May, which means we've been together for a year and a half, time flies when you're having fun I guess. I can't wait to see how far we go and the kind of adventures life takes us on!