All About Coda

Coda Mentioned in Library Journal

2007-03-20T19:15:00.000-04:00

I was featured in Library Journal this month - and I made sure to get a plug in there for Coda & this blog. Check it out at the bottom of this page.

Coda on Flickr

2007-03-20T19:14:00.000-04:00

There are still alot more pictures to upload, but check out Coda on Flickr.

Coda in the fall

2006-05-12T10:06:00.000-04:00

For Christmas last year we gave mom a calendar of Coda that we made on Snapfish. We needed a picture for the fall - and this was my favorite picture. It's just so pretty.

Of course the original has more leaves around Coda - but you get the idea.

Coda's buddies

2006-05-12T10:04:00.000-04:00

It has been a while since I've posted pictures. I thought I'd share a picture of Coda, Sherlock & Gwen. Coda and Sherlock have learned to tolerate each other, but Gwen is still a baby and she wants to play. This means that she is always pawing at Coda and this does not make my little angel happy. I'm hoping that when Gwen grows up she'll learn to ignore Coda like Sherlock has.

Coda's the Daily Puppy

2006-05-12T09:58:00.000-04:00

Looking for a fun RSS feed to subscribe to? Try the Daily Puppy - and while you're at it check out my little angel - she's was the Daily Puppy a couple of days ago - I couldn't get on to post then. Make sure you rate her highly :)

Coda & the couch

2005-11-24T08:38:00.000-05:00

Coda
Originally uploaded by talia679.

Coda recently learned how to jump up on the couch ... and she's taking advantage of it ... unfortunately she can't jump down yet ;)

So when I'm on my laptop she likes to jump up and step all over and and paw at the mouse to get my to pay attention to her instead :)

Exercise Restriction

2005-11-16T10:11:00.000-05:00

Geeze! Our little angel has been limping around for about a month now ... now we're not bad parents, it's just that she keeps getting better and then worse again. Anyway we went to the vet and they put her on exercise restriction ... can you image what my house is like right now with a one year old pup crying because no one will walk her or play with her? I feel so bad :(

I know it's been a while since I've added some pictures, I'll try and get some up here for everyone to see this weekend.

Coda & the car

2005-09-24T08:32:00.000-04:00

Coda has finally gotten big enough to stick her head out of the window when we're in the car. She get up on the window and barks at the passing cars... the thing is, she's too scared to keep her head out of the window. It's kind of cute to see her jumping back and forth, up and down to keep her eyes on all of the cars on both sides of us ...

This excitement can keep her moving for a whole 2 hour car ride ... it's one of the best ways to make her good and tired :)

Please Don't Go Mommy

2005-08-10T08:54:00.000-04:00

This morning, my little darling did the cutest thing ... so cute I almost called out of work to stay home with her!

It was time for me to get my shoes on and leave for work (Bri was already at work). I was standing in the living room listening to one last news report and she came up to me and rested her head against my leg. I leaned over to pet her ... she looked up at me with those eyes of hers and I had to kneel down on the floor to be closer to her. She then proceeds to lay down on my long skirt and close to me as she could. She knew it was time for me to go and she was going to do anything to make me forget that! What a smart little cookie we have :)

Find our baby ...

2005-08-04T18:55:00.000-04:00

[07-31-05]

Can you tell which one of these pups belongs to us ... if you thought it was the one with the crowd ... you were wrong :) Look in the back right ... there she is watching all of the commotion. You can barely tell, but all of the big pups are trying to get a sniff of Abby, a 9 week old pup. You can see her cute little tail in the bottom left.

Coda pretty much stayed on the outskirts of any activity, but made sure to watch carefully :) I think she had fun, even if she didn't actually play with any of the other pups.

More on the Puppy Picnic

2005-08-03T11:39:00.000-04:00

Nadine has put up a page of pictures from the picnic on her web site. You can see all sorts of pups there. I will hopefully add more pictures soon! For those of you who have my Coda Snapfish album you can see pictures there ... if you want me to share it with you let me know.

Family Reunion

2005-08-01T08:04:00.000-04:00

[07-31-05]

Yesterday was the puppy picnic I was telling you about. We had so much fun and I think Coda did too ... eventually. She got to meet 2 of her brothers and her father. In the picture above, Pony is the father and Rudy and the other dog ... who's name I didn't get ... are her brothers. I'll share more stories & pictures soon ... back to work for me.

Coda's Bad Day

2005-07-10T18:55:00.000-04:00

Yesterday we took Coda to a house that Mike was house sitting. There are 2 dogs that live there plus Sherlock was there. Coda knows Sherlock, but the other 2 dogs were a bit intimidating for her. Kate an 11 year old Doberman was very sweet. She gave Coda a sniff and then left her alone. Sherlock was excited as always to see her and Apollo ... a small mutt ... wanted a piece of our little baby.

We took all of the puppies to the back yard to run around and it was then that everything got bad. Apollo and Sherlock started to chase Coda and she got scared. She ran away and Apollo caught her and started to get very very rough. He turned her over and was barking and growling at her. Coda started to cry ... that loud screamy type cry. I tried to get Apollo off of her, but he was being very nasty. It was very very scary for us and for her.

I finally got her free and for the rest of the day she wouldn't leave Bri or I alone. She sat on our laps for the rest of the day. Now our shy little baby is even more timid :(

More from Puppybreak.com

2005-07-08T09:12:00.000-04:00

See more Coda pictures at:

http://www.puppybreak.com/1242
http://www.puppybreak.com/1241
http://www.puppybreak.com/1240

Enjoy :)

Coda & the Bed

2005-07-07T19:51:00.000-04:00

[07-01-05] - Coda in her Daddy's spot

Coda has taken to trying to steal our spots on the bed. She sees us coming and she quickly buries herself under our pillows in a hope that we will let her stay there. I'm not sure why she prefers it up in our spots, maybe it smells more like us up there ... maybe it's just more comfortable.

The other morning Bri wanted to sleep late and I couldn't get Coda to stop walking all over me (literally). I sat up to pet her and she snuck behind me and laid down in my spot ... I decided this was the only way to get her to go back to sleep so Bri wouldn't get mad at us for waking him up ... so I got my book and rested my head on Bri's legs and let her keep my spot ... that's right my dog won ... she got to sleep at the top of the bed and I was pushed to the foot of the bed ... don't tell me she's not one smart cookie :)

Puppy Picnic Coming Up

2005-07-07T10:52:00.000-04:00

We've been invited to a puppy picnic at our breeders (Triumph Shelties) for the end of this month. We're so excited! I hope that Coda has fun ... she's very shy around other dogs and when there's too much noise ... and I expect both will cause a little shock to her when we arrive.

I'll make sure to take lots of pictures to share with you all :)

I also have a bunch of pictures I want to post here ... I just haven't had time recently ... I'll try and do it soon!

Latest Pictures on Puppybreak.com

2005-06-04T15:26:00.000-04:00

I submitted some more pictures of our little Coda bear to puppybreak.com:

http://www.puppybreak.com/962
http://www.puppybreak.com/963

Enjoy!

Coda & the Phone

2005-06-01T07:16:00.000-04:00

[02-12-05] - Talking on the phone

Coda loves talking on the phone! Whenever her favorite grandmother calls she always wants to spend some time talking to her. We put the phone on speaker and place on the floor and she tells her grandmother all about her day :)

She loves the phone so much that when it rings she gets up and walks over to it! It's really handy when we can't find our cell phones, or when we're in another room and can't hear it ... Coda always lets us know when the phone is ringing ... and where to find it.

Coda's Favorite Toy

2005-05-31T19:05:00.000-04:00

[03-04-05]

Coda has this one toy that we bought before she came to live with us. It's a plastic ball on the end of a rope string ... this is her absolute favorite toy.

With this rope ball we play a rough game of tug!

For some reason he prefers playing with me ... not sure I know why, but when I'm eating dinner she likes to bring the toy to me ... she drops it at my feet and I have to play tug with her, using only my toes.

Puppybreak.com

2005-05-29T18:53:00.000-04:00

We stumbled across this great site called puppybreak.com ... you HAVE TO visit this site. It's a site where people submit pictures of their puppies and then you can browse through them.

Our baby is on the site in six places (so far):

http://www.puppybreak.com/612
http://www.puppybreak.com/754
http://www.puppybreak.com/755
http://www.puppybreak.com/879
http://www.puppybreak.com/880
http://www.puppybreak.com/881

Enjoy her and the other puppies :)

Staying Home Alone

2005-05-22T20:39:00.000-04:00

Lately we have been leaving Coda home alone ... and out of her kennel for a few hours at a time. This way she has the full reign of the living room and we don't have to feel bad about locking her up. We think she likes it this way ... plus we get the wonderful puppy greeting at the door and don't have to wait til we go upstairs to get it :)

So far the longest she's been alone has been 4 hours... we're working our way up to a full 8 hour day ... so far so good ... we'll keep you posted.

How small she was

2005-05-19T08:25:00.000-04:00

[12-05-04] Our little angel at 7 weeks

Can you believe she was this small at one time?

Look ... she's the size of Brian's foot!

Anyway, I was brushing Coda last night and couldn't believe how much she had grown ... and that hair!! She has so much hair now.

This was one before we took her home. He cousins and siblings were all yapping at us because we were playing with her and not them. Most of them were much bigger than her already ... but that didn't stop her from taking care of one of her brothers when he tried to jump on her after we put her back in the pen!

More on going Leashless

2005-05-19T08:17:00.000-04:00

Last night Bri and I had a little experiment. We let Coda go outside with us without a leash. While we gardened, she watched, everytime she tried to run down the driveway one of us would call her and run into the backyard ... she always followed. So for the rest of the night when we took her out back we went without the leash (and with a handful of cheerios). She always stayed with us and came back into the house with us!

It's good to know that she's not a runner and that she's going to stay close to home when we want her to.

Leashless

2005-05-15T08:31:00.000-04:00

[5/8/05] - Coda and Brian running without a leash for the first time

Just last week we decided to see if Coda would stay with us if we took off the leash.

We went to the school yard at the end of our street (where we often go on weekends to run with Coda) and we took off her leash.

We took turns running back and forth with Coda and she stayed with us the whole time. She was having so much fun!

We try to do this at least once a weekend ... because it's great for her ... and for us cause she comes home and goes right to sleep :)

Coda & Sherlock

2005-05-15T08:22:00.000-04:00

[1/30/05] - Coda and Sherlock after a long day of playing chase

For those of you who don't know, Sherlock is Mike's puppy ... and he's huge next to our little one.

The first time the two of them met, it was 2 hours of him chasing her around the house ending in the two of them napping together.

I think Coda thinks that's how it's supposed to be between the two of them now. Yesterday we spent the day at Mike's and Coda kept barking at Sherlock and then running away ... I think she wanted to play chase. She settled for sharing his humongous bone on the front lawn.

Coda and the Stairs

2005-05-13T15:49:00.000-04:00

For a very long time, Coda was terrified of the stairs in our house. There are a couple of reasons that I can think of for that. The first, and most obvious, is that there are a lot of them--13, to be exact--and it can be a daunting task for an 11-pound puppy to go up all those stairs. The second reason is that we have hardwood floors, and this extends to the stairs. While it's great from a decor perspective, from a puppy's perspective it's a nightmare. She slides all over the place when she runs, and she spends as much time as possible on the carpet in the living room, or the rug in the bathroom. Now, add the 13 stairs, each of which is only slightly shorter than the puppy, herself, to the hardwood floors, and you have a recipe for a trip to the puppy emergency room. And Coda knew that.

Anyway, we found a solution. We went to Home Depot and bought some stair treads, which are basically just short strips of carpet. We put one on each stair, and we started working with Coda on going up and down the stairs. At first, as expected, it took a lot of coaxing to get her to even go near the stairs. Honey-Nut Cheerios helped a lot there. Also, lots of praise when she went up or down (whether or not we helped her) was key.

So, finally, she's almost to the point where the stairs aren't a big deal. She's going up and down them on her own (down more than up, because she likes being downstairs more than she likes being upstairs), though we still have to do a little bit of coaxing from time to time. She always gets really excited when she gets to the bottom, too, because she likes it when we make a big deal out of her accomplishments.

Brian

The day we met Coda for the first time

2005-05-13T09:25:00.000-04:00

[10/16/04] - Coda 2 days old.

This was our little angel when we first met her. We didn't know at this time that she was going to be the puppy we'd take home, but isn't it great that it turned out that way.

The puppy I was given to hold kep squirming, and wouldn't stay in my hands, but this little bundle of joy fell right to sleep in Bri's hands.

Her mother was a real hyper-active dog. She was pretty young herself if I remember correctly. When Bri and I left that day we said we wouldn't want one of her puppies because they was so jumpy ... boy were we wrong ;)

Welcome to our Blog

2005-05-13T09:16:00.000-04:00

You probably think it's a bit silly to have a blog devoted to our puppy ... or maybe you don't. Since I (Nicole) work as a web designer, I wanted to see what all of the blog fuss was about. I also have to start writing some blogs of my own for work so I thought I'd start here. I also wanted to be able to share our puppy pictures & stories with our friends and family.

We don't get to see a lot of you very often and I'd love for you to be able to check in once in a while and read about what Coda has been up to. You've missed a lot already. Coda will be 7 months old tomorrow ... but we can share some of the first pictures and stories with you all the same.

I should get started. So enjoy!!