I'm Dun
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I've been making a big effort to do more enrichement with the dogs. Yesterday we played fetch in the big yard, a rare treat, played find it twice, once inside and once outside. He finally gets find it, it's only taken 2yrs
. Then he got to go to the waste land next door to hunt things in the undergrowth. Its an old yard of some sort with a couple of barns, trees and brambles, grassy areas and all sortsof weird terrain. Its unused and we are allowed to go in there so he can pick off any rabbits and rats he finds. They don't want either coming through the fence into the accommodation section so its a win win section for everyone. Its fenced with 6ft fencing and a lockable gate and there's no deer so he can have total freedom for once.
Then we went out in the car to guard the car that I had to leave running while I went into the post office because the starter motor is knackered and until its repaired on Friday if I turn it off it wont restart for 4hours.
Floyd went to bed, but Cooperhad a kong on the sofa. A huge win as I was in the bedroom and he has been very uncomfortable being in another room without me. A side effect of being raised on tiny boats were we are always in sight of each other I guess.
By bed time he was shattered and had his weird tired ears on!
Hes booked in to go swimming next week and we have found some training classes that don't involve very basic puppy style training but also arent drilling, so we will see how he goes.Once the car is definitely fixed we can look at some of the stuff suggested on my previous post.
Today we did baskets of stuff. No idea what they are called, but similar to the photo. They had filled kongs, a handful of kibble, cheese wrapped in brown paper, treats in a small thin box, different treats wrapped in bubble wrap as Floyd loves to pop bubble wrap, basically anything I could find that might be fun but work to get. What else can I put in them? I'm happy to buy things that arent very expensive and I'll keep hold of egg cartons and things going forward, but otherwise I'm a bit stumped. The dogs loved them and spent 20mins digging and ripping and having a really good time.
I'll keep up find it now the penny has finally dropped for cooper. Anything else I can do? Toys get played with very occasionally, but they just aren't that bothered. They both love food and I've cut down their meals to have them a bit hungry so they are more engaged.
And finally, I'm wanting to teach them to go round me, so start in front and circle round the back and then sit, but cant think what to call it. Go round means when they are off lead and there's a bike/person/obstruction and they are to give it a wide berth, so needs to be a different word to round.
Then we went out in the car to guard the car that I had to leave running while I went into the post office because the starter motor is knackered and until its repaired on Friday if I turn it off it wont restart for 4hours.
Floyd went to bed, but Cooperhad a kong on the sofa. A huge win as I was in the bedroom and he has been very uncomfortable being in another room without me. A side effect of being raised on tiny boats were we are always in sight of each other I guess.
By bed time he was shattered and had his weird tired ears on!
Hes booked in to go swimming next week and we have found some training classes that don't involve very basic puppy style training but also arent drilling, so we will see how he goes.Once the car is definitely fixed we can look at some of the stuff suggested on my previous post.
Today we did baskets of stuff. No idea what they are called, but similar to the photo. They had filled kongs, a handful of kibble, cheese wrapped in brown paper, treats in a small thin box, different treats wrapped in bubble wrap as Floyd loves to pop bubble wrap, basically anything I could find that might be fun but work to get. What else can I put in them? I'm happy to buy things that arent very expensive and I'll keep hold of egg cartons and things going forward, but otherwise I'm a bit stumped. The dogs loved them and spent 20mins digging and ripping and having a really good time.
I'll keep up find it now the penny has finally dropped for cooper. Anything else I can do? Toys get played with very occasionally, but they just aren't that bothered. They both love food and I've cut down their meals to have them a bit hungry so they are more engaged.
And finally, I'm wanting to teach them to go round me, so start in front and circle round the back and then sit, but cant think what to call it. Go round means when they are off lead and there's a bike/person/obstruction and they are to give it a wide berth, so needs to be a different word to round.
