[Beckysmom]

Also, at least for now, I suggest you tell Jeanette (right name yes?) not let the brothers in law roughhouse with the dog.

Can go back to collar issues etc. as dog is a little older and after the training starts...

Do you and Jeanette have career military wife moms, sisters etc. to give her advice and suggestions on dealing with her role? If yes, ignore following and take their advice over mine. If no, I have a few suggestions that along with dog training and raising should keep her so busy she has little time to be lonely and thus little need of the brothers to come and roughhouse with Rocky.

1) Learn to cook at least 2 different dinners reliably and so as not to be worried if it ever need be done for a tete a tete with a higher ranking officer and family and also so that the problems of overseas added on do not prove insurmountable--need not be elaborate and something back from America will do great, and should be with simple ingredients likely to be findable on the base or locally. And to be able to carry off the cooking and serving of such with both ease and lack of nervousness and panache.

2) enroll in either a modeling class such as at John Robert Powers or an acting class, or both, unless she already has a finishing school in her background or has been a debutante in which case she already knows what she needs to know and then some.

3) study Japanese. Oh, probably she will never be off the base, but you never know. Even a few words can be helpful just in case.
unless of course she is already fluent, in which case she will just have to do lots and lots of training and more training of Rocky boy to keep busy and stave off the loneliness. :D :D :D

First thing though, if Jeanette can access this site and print out, I suggest that she should do that with Mick Trainer's post on housetraining of pups and start following its advice immediately.

I also suggest she get the book by Ian Dunbar called How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks.


Kate