Long Time, No Blog!

I have been busy (before the holiday), on holiday and ill... hence the long time, no blog.

Before I went on holiday, we had lots of beautiful, sunny, warm days. Like the day we walked with my friend Barbara and her dog Lenny:







While I was cruising around Italy, Spain and Portugal, my parents were here to take care of kids & dogs. It meant that I could go on holiday totally carefree. And that is worth a lot!
After 8 days, I returned to happy kids and dogs (parents and hubby were happy too).

First thing I did, was buying a new dog bed for Ghandi. By the way he was making his bed, I often felt that he wanted one of those cosy, cuddly beds. So I got him one. Too small for Wesha, I thought...



I was obviously mistaken... as she was in the bed before Ghandi even had a chance, hehehe!

But Ghandi also loves the new bed and now they both sleep often in it, taking turns.




I haven't been to dog training, because I was ill and when I was well enough to go again, the trainer was ill. I think it will be good to return to training, because Wesha is obviously taking some liberties that she wouldn't have taken a month ago. Running off to examine things in the woods, and not returning when I call her, but when she feels like it. Tsk, tsk!

Dogs in the fog:




Wesha and miss Moo:

Dummy training

Today, I started dummy training with Wesha. We are starting at the very beginning, with the "ground/start" and "front" position (Wesha does both pretty well now, because we have been working on these commands before). The other thing that we are working on now, is having Wesha take the prey dummy in her mouth and let it go again at "out". We practise this as follows: I take Wesha in "front" and then I offer her the prey dummy. I hold the dummy on the sides with both hands. As soon as Wesha takes it, I say "out" and she lets go of it (while I am still holding on to it). Then I give her a reward out of the prey dummy. At this moment, she doesn't hold it more than a second, but at least she takes it in her mouth properly.

She was working very concentrated today, until the end of the training. She was obviously mentally tired from being so concentrated all the time and she started to drift off a little and sniff around. But because she worked so well before, I didn't really mind.

Wesha "en profil":