Proud dog owner moments

[Clodagh]

I did a Tellington Touch course at the week end and Nouille was very good, she spend most of the time
on her back being chilled.

They were 12 dogs in the room, a beautiful German sheperd, a Lagoto, a young lab and 6 Tibetan terriers, a jack, a mix breed from Roumania and a poodle.

All of the others barked, jumped around and were restless, Nouille just watched and stayed quiet.

The show the exercises, the trainer had a big soft toy dog, it looked quiet real and many of the dogs barked at it !

A Tibetan terrer attacked it but Nouille seemed to know straight away that it was a fake and watched the others getting excited
wondering what the fuss was about.

We were less sucessful doing the outside work, where the German Sherperd excelled ! After a few minutes, walking over the cavalettis, she
suddenly ran off to the corner of the field, smelling a cat.

She couldn't see the point of walking around plastic cones tbh !

Still, i learned a lot and had a great time, we will certainly go again !

I’m glad it went well. I went to watch @Spotherisk agilitise one day in the summer and there was a woman there ‘working’ a Harrier hound. I think they were struggling.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Little dog has been relatively good this last week/managed to mostly keep a lid on it with dogs walking past in close proximity, usually correlates with her having been in kennels, I guess lots of dog traffic going past her is desentitising, but boiled over this evening when the cannabis people* walked past with their little terrier. Hilariously it goes bananas at my old dog, who ignores it, tonight it was like a church mouse while my dog climbed up me, roaring. Le sign.


*There's three of them, they go everywhere together and stink of weed.

 

[Janique]

It might not be the right place to post, sorry but i can't resist

Nouille's daugther Ratatouille age 4. She is for sale as the breeder in Lyon ( France ) is giving up.

I need to be strong and resist.... I can't possibly have another one....

But she is beautiful !

 

[CorvusCorax]

When I was walking the young dog last night she started barking through a hole in the hedge in the dark and I verbally told her to knock it off, as I assumed it was at a dog as there's a guy who's routine we often clash with at that time of night in the same area, although I'd already met him on what I thought was his home stretch with my older dog, as he called out HELLO to me in the dark and gave me a real fright, then apologised for scaring me

Anyhoo we went up the lane and out onto the main road, when I heard a rustling behind me and a guy dressed all in black with a hoodie up came clambering up the banking and out onto the main road behind us. It's a shortcut that people use, but it's very steep and would be quite difficult in the dark. He crossed over and was behind us for a while, I went right and he went left, Missy Moo's eyes on stalks and occasionally standing right up on her hind legs eyeballing him.

I don't normally like her popping off at people but was quite glad of it last night. She clearly didn't like his vibe.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

I was very proud of Ivy on Friday when we came across a shoot while on our walk (hello Gloucestershire gun dog people )

The flapping of the flags and the sound of the dog whistles seemed to get her attention, her ears seemed to grow an inch taller if that were possible and she was on high alert! Weirdly unfussed about the sound of the guns; I guess a different type of noise to fireworks which she really doesn't like. I was very proud of her for still listening to me and not losing the plot on the end of the lead.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Passed a terrier that often has words with my female and vice versa. No noise, nothing. Terrier just whined a lot. Then remembered she is in season and was standing for it. Sigh.