Ripley

After Conner, Ripley was sure a suprise. My plan was to get a second dog to keep
Conner company, as he always enjoyed being with our friend's dogs and seemed
depressed after we left a group outing. So we contacted Conner's breeder to see if
she had anything available. It turned out that she had recently whelped a pet litter and
had one male available that she thought would be perfect for our household.

Ripley was a very difficult pup. He screamed in his kennel, refused to come to us, and
was in general a very stubborn pup. However, Ripley and I worked through our
differences and he is now one of my most trusted and loyal dogs. Our breakthrough
with Ripley was clicker training and really good treats. Once we worked out a
communication system, it was smooth sailing.

Ripley comptetes in flyball and obdience, even showing up his older brother on
numerous occasions. He woud love to do herding, showing a great deal of natural
tallent. He is currently working on his CDX. He has also become a very consistent
and reliable flyball dog- coming a long way from his initial idea that chasing the other
dogs was the object of the game.