Puppy course 2 & chasing a cat

This morning, I took Wesha to the puppy play group for the second time. We started in the group of medium- to big sized puppies and this time we could stay. Wesha seemed much more at ease than last time. She played and ran around with the other puppies. Sometimes she was a bit impressed, but she always returned to play.

The exercises went really well too (easy, because Wesha would do anything for food, LOL!) and even the waiting went a lot better. Most of the time she was sitting patiently, looking up at me to see if I would reward her for being so good. So I did reward her every now and then and told her often how good she was doing.

Officially, we would "promote" to the young dog course next week Sunday. But I asked if we could stay in the puppy group for another week (or maybe 2), because Wesha has only attended the course twice so far. That was no problem and I am looking forward to next week.


Later this afternoon, Reto and I went for a walk with Wesha. As we walked out of the village, into the fields, we had her off the leash. After the last house, Wesha disappeared into a field. We walked on, as she always comes running after us after a while. But suddenly we saw a cat flying out of the field, onto the path and Wesha right after it! I called her and made a funny sound, that she usually listens to. But she didn't come, they ran in the opposite direction, away from us and then into the garden of the last house, where that cat lives (it belongs to a boy that goes to school with Tina). I suspect it went inside through a cat flap. Because when I called Wesha a second time (I couldn't see her at that moment), she came running to us. She is incredibly fast!! I praised her for coming to me and gave her a couple of goodies. We didn't put her on the leash, but just continued our walk. Wesha seeemed to have forgotten the cat and came with us without any problems.

What I have learned from this is that I should stay a bit closer to Wesha when she is off the leash. Because if we would have been closer, I think that I might have gotten her attention quicker. She seems to have pretty strong hunting instincts. (Usually, I keep on walking when she starts sniffing around, because she should keep her one eye on me and run to me when I keep on walking. This incident has made me see that it would be handy to stay closer to Wesha, though)