Another trick

I taught Wesha another trick today. The idea was, to teach her to walk around an object. I had to send her from at least 2 meters distance again. This video was filmed after only one training session of about 15 minutes! Wesha is incredibly clever!!

A walk with Nituna

This morning, Cordula and I went for a walk with Nituna and Wesha. "Walk" is a big word... it was hard to get Wesha to walk. She just wanted to play, play, play! The first bit on the leash was very difficult. And once we let the doggies off the leash, Wesha was all over Nituna. They hardly moved forward.



Cordula and I kept on walking and once there was a little lull in the play, we called them. It was a great sight to see them running towards us! Two tollers, only 10 weeks age difference. And yet, the difference in size is huge!
Nituna is so cute. She also has this very intense, intelligent look in her eyes.

When we put them back on the leash, I could only walk normally with Wesha, when we walked in front of Cordula and Nituna, with about 5-10 meters between us. What Wesha does well, is sit and wait when I stand on her leash (while Cordula and I were chatting).

This is a part of the first time we let them off the leash:

Pics from the last few days

Sleeping like a bat, hanging upside down from the chair


This looks much more comfortable!

First trick - "Touch"

As part of a competition (for fun) on the Dutch Toller Forum, I wanted to teach Wesha the following trick within 2 days; She had to touch an object with her nose. The object had to be at least 2 meters away. It only took 2 sessions on the same day and Wesha understood what I wanted from her! I am so very proud of her!

I posted the following video clip on the Dutch Toller Forum:

The Horses

Wesha has been to my sister in law's stables a couple of times. She was scared of the horses so far. But yesterday, after a break of 4 weeks, we went back there and suddenly Wesha was VERY enthusiastic and brave too. She wanted to greet the horses and was nose to nose with a couple of them.

Here she is greeting Onyx:

Weighed

We weighed Wesha this morning and she is now 11.3kg. I think it is pretty perfect. She is slim and she looks healthy like this. Her coat is also shining more, now that it is getting longer.

Sleeping like a baby in "daddy's" arms

First snow!

When we woke up this morning, everything was white. It was still snowing, but the snow was very wet. I filmed Wesha when she first went out this morning. It was still a bit dark, so the quality of the video isn't too good.

Wesha was a bit hesitant in the snow at first:




But later she really enjoyed it: