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When we brought one year old Parker home last year, we had a few worries; he was afraid of the inside stairs and was very shy with everyone, especially men. We thought for awhile that we would have to return him although we were already attached to him but he shied so much from my husband (now called Parker’s Dad) that we felt we might not be the right choice for him. We called in professional help as a last resort and things started to turn around slowly but surely.
The crazy mutt would gallop up and down all the outside stairs but only a few months ago did I get him to go up and down inside. Believe it or not ‘someone’ (Dad) would lead him around by the outside and through the patio door so he wouldn’t be alone while we were watching TV.
Parker loves to swim and ride around perched at the front of our wooden rowboat; as we spend most of our time at the lake house he had ample opportunity last summer. He’s a joy to swim with as he carefully swims around people and not at them. He has a ‘best girl’ whose name is Bailey and they get together once, sometimes twice, every weekday to run, play, chase each other and then have a long walk.
For all that he is an extremely active dog, he is the best behaved in the house and even more so in the tiny apartment we have in town. We still have training to do on recall which is perfect about 75% of the time and the definition of how long ‘stay’ means but we are working on improving as responsible, well-behaved dog owners every day. Thanks ever so much for leading us to Parker; we are assuming he feels the same way about being led to us :o) Terry, Doug & Parker
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