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My shepherd/husky mix pup is almost 9 months old, and we've had him since he was 9.5 weeks. He's crate-trained (and loves his crate - it's his safe place), but I normally work from home so we've never had to leave him alone for more than 4-5 hours. He's always in his crate if left home alone for more than a 10-min run to the corner store.

I'm going away to visit my family in a different province for a week at the end of August, and my partner works in a trade job where his hours start early in the morning and can go long-ish into the evening (although some days he's also home quite early - it just depends on how many calls he has that day). He doesn't have the opportunity to come home at an

Over the past few months, I've become really interested in genealogy and researching my family tree, and I've been sharing the things I find out with my family. I'm in my 40s and am lucky enough to still have a living grandmother (my dad's mom), who I'm close with. She is almost 90 and just this year has sold her house and moved in with my parents. She's had some health issues but is still very mentally sharp!

When they cleaned out her house to sell, my mom made sure to save all the old photos that she found and most of them are now with me. I've sorted through them and my grandma helped identify a lot of the people and places for me. Almost all of the oldest photos were from my grandma's

I'm located in Calgary, Alberta and this is my first year gardening here, although I have experience gardening in Ontario. My partner and I did a lot of work on our yard this spring and are happily cultivating a clover lawn in the back and a variety of annuals that are doing well so far. I planted a handful of perennials in the backyard this spring as well, but we got a puppy last winter so I didn't want to go all in on that until I was pretty certain he wasn't going to just immediately eat them or dig them up!

I am dying to plant a native pollinator garden for next year, and we have the space for it as well as a couple of amazing nurseries here that specialize in native plants. What I'm wo

My partner and I got a puppy this winter and we ended up spending so much time out in our small backyard with him between Feb-May that the already very iffy lawn mostly turned into a mud pit from the foot traffic (and puppy digging lol). We were doing a bunch of yardwork and garden-building anyway, so we decided to just rip the half-dead turf out and replace it with a clover lawn.

We didn't end up seeding till mid-June because we waited until just before we were going to be away on vacation with the pup for a couple of weeks to give the seeds time to sprout undisturbed. We used a 2:1 combo of West Coast Seeds' Microclover and Bee Turf mix, which is working well! The germination rate was hi

My partner and I just spent three days driving across Canada (Alberta to Ontario) with our 7-month old "shepherd mix" and we are so happy we decided to bring him! Our friends and family are here and we head home every year at this time, but normally we fly. This year we got a dog hammock thing for the backseat of the car, bought a smaller crate that would fit folded up in our cargo box, asked our vet to prescribe some carsickness meds, and away we went!

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Our puppy is having the time of his life, and we are having a blast on this adventure with him! He was already a really good puppy - which I would say is partially just his personality but also a result of all the time and effort

I've had my nearly 7-month old "shepherd mix" puppy since he was 9.5 weeks old and he's been an absolute dream in almost every way. He's super smart and highly trainable, fully crate- and house-trained, knows tons of words and commands, easily settles in the house, great with our cats, not very destructive, etc. The one issue we've had that's been ongoing is that he's a frustrated greeter when on leash.

This pup is extremely friendly. He loves everyone and everything! He wants to say hello to every person and every dog we see. When he's off leash at the dog park he's amazing - he LOVES playing with other dogs and is very socially aware with all the dogs he meets (gentle with the little one

My partner forgot to put our 6.5 month old shepherd/husky mix pup back in his crate when he left for work this morning so our boy was on his own while I was upstairs showering and getting dressed and such, oblivious to the fact that he was wandering free on the main floor. As far as I can tell, this sweet boy just chilled and snoozed for about an hour before popping into the bedroom all happy like, "Hi Mom, look at me!"

He is just such a good boy and it just made me think about how much has changed in the past couple of months! I've been pretty much obsessed with this guy since the day we brought him home (at 9.5 weeks) and I never felt any puppy blues, but we have still gone through the u

I have a 6 month old pup who is a mix of working breeds. He's a rescue so we don't know exactly what his mix is but based on our locality it's likely to be some combo of GSD, husky, lab, malamute, and possibly great pyrenees and/or another livestock guardian breed. He is a great puppy! I'm super in love with him and the feeling seems to be mutual. He is extremely smart, excited to learn, and eager to please me and show me what he can do.

We've been doing tons of training since he came home at 9.5 weeks (and he already knew several basic commands from his foster home!). He's completed "puppy preschool" and we're currently enrolled in "puppy kindergarten". Both classes have been hugely helpf

Posting this as a bit of a contrast to the "puppy blues" posts, as it's (understandably) more common for folks to come here with their problems rather than their wins! My partner and I adopted our nearly 6-month old "shepherd mix" pup from a rescue when he was 9.5 weeks old. We're in Alberta, Canada and he's a rez dog so although he has shepherd colouring, there is highly likely to be some combo of shepherd/husky/lab/malamute in his mix along with the possibility of various other working breeds. He weighs around 50 lbs at present, he just finished losing his baby teeth, he has floppy, expressive ears, an extremely curly tail and the softest fur. He is so smart, so sweet, so goofy, so confide