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Saving Lives or Just a Big Heart

Grissom is a very brilliant dog. He has natural instincts that has become him, reason why I say this is because my Mother has a sleep apnea. Therefore she must sleep with a CPAP. Once while I was at work the power went out at my own home and so her CPAP stopped working and Grissom noticed that my Mother stopped breathing. He automatically jumped up on her bed to wake her up, he didn’t even hesitate he just went for it. Do I say she is lucky yes because with the lack of oxygen she could have become a vegetable or worse. As for Grissom he is something unexplainable, he is brilliant, yet he is a furry creature with a bigger heart than some humans. He stepped up to the plate and played the role that life gave him and in return he felt more emotion than he could have ever expected.

Little miss Ava is something else, as an employee for Family Dobes we rarely have the option in bonding with the entire litter, yes we find ones that we love and miss when they find their forever homes but never do we get to actually bond with the entire litter. For us this is something new and to be able to have the chance opens our eyes to how it feels. Ava may be the only Coco pup at the moment but she is everything that we expected her to be and so much more. She is feisty, loving and just plain adorable, there is nothing about her that you cannot help but love!

Abi

Ruby and I have never really been close. I mean we work with each other, and I say hi and pet her, but I’ve never felt that closeness with her. But strangely over these last couple nights I think we’ve bonded a lot more. Maybe it’s because I’m spending lots of time with her now. Sitting with her and her puppies for hours. She really is a sweet dog, guess I’ve never really noticed before.

I love to look in the kennels at all the moms, and see their babies spread out everywhere. They’re just learning to walk so they just go all over the place. It’s funny to watch them stumble around all clumsily finding every spot they can to squeeze into. a lot of the times I find them laying on their moms faces.

Laura

Soul Searching

You can always read a dog through their eyes, as long as you pay attention to what they are trying to give you, you will just always be able to tell. With the dogs at Family Dobes you can get lost in their eyes as if you are trying to look for something deeper than reality. Its a beautiful thing to be able to see through them and see a deeper side to their hearts, all you have to do is look and you will see it and feel blessed by it.

Will you take me with you..

Grissom has so much energy lately all he wants is your attention or even just a minute of play time with you or another dog such as his favorite outdoor friend Priss! Today his thoughts were “please will you take me out with you while you pick up outside please, I promise to be good for the rest of the day!” It breaks you heart to say no to them when you have to make the outside picking up fast so that you can hurry a get back inside to help take care of the precious little ones

Abi

Ava is so cute. I can’t get over how adorable she is. Last night I heard these sad sounds coming from her kennel, so I got up to check on her. She was leaning against her mom crying, so I came in, and sat on the floor. Right away she ran over on wobbly legs and got in my lap to cuddle with me, and to maul my fingers. She’s defiantly a snuggler, always wanting attention. I’d love nothing more than to just play with her all night. I can’t believe how big she’s gotten already!
Laura

Verona has a useful trick up her sleeve. She enjoys bringing shoes to you, and yes she will pull shoes out of the closet or grab my work shoes that are always by the front door. And of course she does not chew on them. I am in the process of teaching her to grab clean socks from an open sock drawer and bring me a pair. It works two out of five try’s. Yet when I do not need them she will do it on her own and bring them to me, success to an extent!

Coco is one Momma dog that enjoys puppies, she has that maternal instinct down to the core of her being. It is something seen from litter to litter, but nothing as strong.

Doggy bath time is seriously one of the hardest. Giving a child a bath is simple, but a dog thats a very different story. Francy absolutely hates baths yet who knew having an extra dog in the bathroom would change her mind! Water and two playful dogs in one bathroom equals about an inch of water on all surfaces. Let along having one of those corded shower heads means gang up on the human. It became a game to see if the human (me) could shut off the water before slipping on a soaked floor. My lesson for that was only allow one dog in the bathroom at a time!

I’ve always wondered if you read to the puppies if it would make them more brainier, it cant hurt to find out. Studies have been proven that when reading to an infant and so on that it would help them in their later years. I do not see it being any different for dogs or puppies, maybe one day Vince will school me in humanities
Abi

I love the age when the puppies are starting to run around. It’s the cutest thing ever. Today when I was letting Iskra out of her kennel, all her puppies decided they wanted to run around and explore too. Luckily there are only four of them, other wise that would have been hard to catch them all. Sometimes I wish they’d stay this size forever so I could just cuddle them all the time.

Laura

Why is it that we crop doberman tails? I have always wondered it, I know its not for balance because a dobe with a tail has the same amount of balance as one with out one. My conclusion for that question is this, it is what everyone wants and is what everyone sees as a “traditional look” for a doberman. Cropped tail and ears are the traditional look, not the natural one. To me it looks some what out to be a stereotype, such as some would say floppy ears are ugly, I disagree. Personally I enjoy both, I like variety and having one dobe with floppy ears and another with cropped gives me just that. I am also taking care of one of Family Dobes dogs, and she has both floppy ears and a tail, which I have to say I enjoy playing with her tail, mainly playfully poking the tip of her tail to her nose especially when she takes up the whole couch!

Abi

I have to say I would lend my sweater to a stranger and same goes for the furry loveable dogs at Family Dobes. I just cannot help it especially when the mothers look so miserable before they have their babies. I really do not understand what it is that makes it so comforting for the mother to lay on something that belongs or smells like one of the employees that work for Family Dobes. What I have noticed from comforting them this way is that they are so much more calm and they eventually move around less than they normally do.

Abi

I was wondering the other night why the biggest doberman in the kennel was one of the sweetest dogs, and the smallest was the most aggressive. I believe that short little Texa has little mans syndrome. I guess even dogs get this complex. She makes sure everyone else in the kennel knows that she’s the biggest and strongest dog around. I wonder if she even knows she’s a shorty. I guess we’ll never know, as long as she’s happy believing everything fears her, it doesn’t matter.

Laura