Dutch Shepherd Forum

Jan,

Love the photo's and the updates! Keep them coming.

Isn't it amazing how quickly they grow? It always blows me away.

He sounds like he has a wonderful temperament for your family!

icvanstra wrote:Jan,

Love the photo's and the updates! Keep them coming.

I will Eric.

leih merigian wrote:Isn't it amazing how quickly they grow? It always blows me away.

He sounds like he has a wonderful temperament for your family!

You're right, he is adorable to be honest. Sometimes Floor and Bas, who are ten and three years old now, don't always appreciate him being arround and try to keep him on a certain distance by grawling at him but he is never under the impression and keeps coming back to them, a little shy and obedient though as it should be.
Tomorrow he will have his first puppytraining at the dogschool so that will be another important experience for him allthough we theach him things every day at home of course. He already knows the terrain because we toke him there several times for socializing and he was allowed to play with the other puppies that were on training at the time.
My wife will do the training by the way and I will take some pictures from this first lesson.

Today we made some more pictures while making a nice walk through our backyard. Joep is four months old now and he is growing rapidly as you can see. But in his behaviour he is still a ''youngster'' and we're happy about that.

Always getting a smell of some kind:


An old graveyard lies behind that gate, the oldest graves are from the eighteenth century:


Posing:














A few Dutch ladies:




View from a bridge:




Time for a little reward:

Wow, it always amazes me when I see the group photos...how do you get them all to stay still for the shot?

Very cute pics!

Sugars Mom wrote:Wow, it always amazes me when I see the group photos...how do you get them all to stay still for the shot?

Very cute pics!

With a lot of patience.

Joep is almost six months old now and he becomes a very fine dog with a great character, he is developing very good. Yesterday we were recieving a compliment at the dogtraining for his great behaviour and te way he is learning things. We are convinced he will become a very fine dog once he has grown uo. Meanwhile we enjoy watching him grow up between our other two dogs Floor and Bas, together they are e great couple. Someday soon I will start doing a special training to do dogshows with him in oreder to try to get some good showresults (and for the fun of it, that is also very important).
Here are some of the most recent pictures:





Floor:


And Joep:




You can see his his curly fur very good on this photo:




Two pair of ears:




Our pride:

I am just speechless!! Such a beautiful bunch !! He is looking like a fantastic fella. The photos of the three of them together are fantastic ! I also cant get over the coats, how fluffy! They are all Poof!

What beautiful faces and coats. I can't believe how much Joep has grown. Doesn't seem that long ago you were posting baby pics, and how look at him!

Thanks for the cute pics!

so, what happened to the puppy??

He decided to grow up, rapidly.

Jannumbernext wrote:He decided to grow up, rapidly.

Darn

But he still behaves like a puppy, every day is another challenge. And by the way he walks and runs around he look very clumsy. :dswink" It's great to have him around and he comes along really good with Floor and Bas. At the training he makes very good progress each lesson and last saturday Nel and Joep got compliments from a senior trainer at the club telling her that Joep has developed himself into a very social and keen puppy. He's learning fast and we do a lot of practice at home as it is ment to be of course but ''forgotten'' by many dog owners.