Canidae

My name is SabR, and I’m a 24 year old Georgia-native. Kazi & I founded Canidae after we were unable to find a dog community which met all of our needs here on Dreamwidth. We hope that Canidae can become that community, with a little exposure and a lot of grunt work on our behalf.

I started my ‘career’ with dogs at an early age - my father is a canine officer, so I grew up in a home of dogs - at first our hunting Brittany, Duke. Then came Xacko [Zock-oh], our German import. My father bought me my first dog, Hobby, when I was eight years old. He was a Smooth-coated Fox Terrier, and an absolute terror - when I was about ten years old, my dad made me rehome him with my Uncle because he was picking fights with our second Shepherd, a Czech import, and was going to turn himself into a small chewtoy. He adjusted beautifully to his new life and lived to be a ripe old seventeen years of age. But that’s another story.

Our shepherds were military background, narcotic and bite-work trained. I grew up training in German, and later Czech commands, albeit mis-pronounced. I also grew up with a harder approach to training than is necessary for most animals, but it has given my a unique path to training that has brought me to where I am today - learning how to train with a more positive approach.

I am now owned by a 16 month old Russian Wolfhound. He is, appropriately, trained in Russian, though he hails from Kentucky. He’s teaching me MANY a thing, but mostly tiny lessons in patience. It’s only been two months, but I know it must be love, because I haven’t killed him yet :P



I’m a learning project. A good candidate for a mod, don’t you think? :P

Everyday, I try to learn something new about dogs, something that questions the how and why of the way I have been taught to do things (which is so very often wrong) and something that can improve my dogs life in the long run. I think that a strong internet community can really help with that process, and we had that at livejournal, but it’s time for a new era - one that is, hopefully, less inundated with asshattery from Mother Russia.

Anyhow, hope to get to know our upcoming members in the weeks and months to come!