Boone-My Anatolian Unicorn

[peteyfoozer]

Clearly the pony worked too hard yesterday. Must have been all that lounging around at lunchtime

 

[Baymule]

What a good boy Boone is! He’s amazing!

 

[peteyfoozer]

What a good boy Boone is! He’s amazing!

He really is a good boy. I’m very pleased with him. I hope and pray he continues to work out

 

[Kiki]

Boone’s having an off day. The tables in restaurant were lower than most. He went under beautifully but it was hot and cramped so he kept squirting out and it’s hard directing a 100# plus pd dog when sitting in a booth.
We did take him out to pee twice. Once with me and the second time with Randy as I wasn’t able to make the walk. He was still a very gud boi and will only get better. Fen did, but he never got past hating town trips.

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Having a giant as a Service Dog can be tricky. We were at the back booth in corner so he was allowed to stretch out next to me and the waitress brought him water

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Luckily we were in small town Burns today where pretty much all the people we deal with knew Heath and Fen, and know Boone is still a youngster in training so they give us grace. It’s hard training for public access when we usually only go to town every few months. It’s asking a lot of the dogs but Heath loved it and I think Boone will handle it. Fen is too active to deal with the horribly long drives and infrequent trips. He never enjoyed it, never felt relaxed. As you can see, Boone is not exactly a bundle of nerves

He did great the rest of the day. He went to visit his friends at the ranch store and all the cashiers fawned over him and the old fellows who work there petted him and told their same stories about dogs they had and for some reason when told he is an Anatolian Shepherd they assume he is some kind of German Shepherd X. I don’t correct them. Boone likes them.
Home again and both of us hurt. Poor Randy. He’s nearly as messed up as me and carrying all the load today. I need to remind him to call and make an appt for his shoulder injection.

No training for Boo today. We both need a recovery day.

Kiss that pony for me!!!!

 

[peteyfoozer]

Boone has taken up swimming…in the big horse trough. Which is fine in itself, but I was hurting this morning, so after his 20 laps he ran inside and did a swan dive onto me and the bed!
It’s so hard to get mad when he’s so dang sweet!

 

[peteyfoozer]

Fen finally broke down and admitted he likes being vacuumed. It cracks me up because he’s always been such a drama queen about being groomed. He got up on the bed and showed me his little footie that had fox tails again. I removed them then took him to the vacuum and went over him to get the ones out of his coat. He stood and let go all over him you could tell he loved it. Boone was upset until I vacuumed him too. It was a great investment.

 

[Baymule]

That’s funny that Boone was jealous over the vacuum!

 

[peteyfoozer]

That’s funny that Boone was jealous over the vacuum!

He LOVES the thing! It has a short bristled wire slicker on it. The problem is he rolls over with his legs in the air so I can only do his belly

 

[peteyfoozer]

We processed the last couple of rabbits today. One of them got away from me in our very large yard full of shrubs and there was no hope I could catch him. So I called Boone and he managed to find him and work him into a corner and then put his big old paw on it and gently held it until I got there. It wasn’t injured at all, but that is NOT typical livestock guardian behavior. He’s just my partner in everything and it has to be his intelligence that drove him to do that because it wasn’t instinct. That is more sheppie behavior.
I love my unicorn puppeh!

 

[Baymule]

Boone simply does whatever you ask him to. Normal LGD behavior or not, he just rises to the occasion.