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Oh my god I’m so cross. :punch: Walking Mas this morning and a little jack Russell comes out of no where - owner is about 20 metres behind us. We stand and wait for the owner to catch up, meanwhile the JR is prancing trying to entice Mas to play with her - the owner catches up and we share a...

Really pleased with this - we have been practising in the garden for a bit now but this is the first time I’ve tried it in the great outdoors.

Talk about Bambi on ice :cwl: This was after he had his head up trying to Eat the snowflakes :cold::snowangel:

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working with Mas on ignoring other dogs by using a tennis ball - he’s not really a bolt off type of dog as a rule but he will go over for a sniff and obviously if a dog is on lead I don’t want that - IF I recall him he will come back but I’m trying to...

Was sitting here tonight and thinking about anything other than the obvious and it occurred to me that we all have some diverse names for our dogs so I thought it would be a way to pass the time for me to know this stuff 😂 Leo was named after a character in Little Einstein’s by my daughter...

Just because I can’t keep track of all of the threads I’m on today 🙈 Quite frankly I’m doing this to keep myself busy because there is only so many times you can refresh your phone to see if you have signal. So the basics are: Mas was sick on Tuesday evening once. Overnight he threw up...

There is something weird going on. Eating normally, playing normally... but he’s just so... settled. It’s unnerving me. :scared: Today is a classic example. I get up at 7 and feed him and let him out.. then go upstairs and get changed. I come downstairs and he’s asleep on the sofa. He hasn’t...

Due to being at school with me every day, Mas is rarely left alone.. if he is it’s a matter of 30 seconds when I grab something from the photocopier. However since we have been off this week he is barking up a storm whenever I leave him.... even if it’s to go to the toilet! I’m not entering...

Has anyone tried them? Leo is just old and part of that is he is now stiff and sore if he over does it.. but mentally he still desperately wants to chase the ball or go for hikes etc. He also has huperthyroidism which he is medicated for daily... we have tried pain killers but they upset his...

Well the unbelievable has happened. Mas just turned down a treat in order to not take his eyes off the ball. Aha says I... this is brilliant and now I can do all my training with just a tennis ball. Then I realised the truth. The dog is obsessed. Like he can’t hear me when I have a tennis...

Well this is a new one. For the past few nights I have got up in the morning to a poo in the corner of the dining room... if I’m honest, both me and OH assumed it was Leo (elderly but never has accidents) and so we cleaned it up quick and never mentioned it to each other (denial much?) Anyway...

So... we got Millie’s riverside mix and the mutt ate the lot (thank you delivery driver for lobbing it over the fence) Anyway OH helpfully ordered another 12kg of food... and emptied it into his food cupboard... I’m just pouring it into his bowl and I realise it looks different. He’s ordered...

So for all of us that are going through the joys of adolescence... I thought a chat thread would be a good idea to remind us that we aren’t alone!! Mas is 7 months in a couple of weeks and we are very much in the chew it or chase it frame of mind!

Had a lovely walk today, my trainer does a social walk every other week where we all meet up and the dogs can run around like mad things. Mas adores it, he can’t quite keep up with the full sized Labs yet but he has a great go trying. Today we had a lady with a staff... now this is no breed...

Ok so we have talked about this before but I thought if we put a date to it maybe we could start making plans? There is a beach in Wales (Conwy beach) that is amazing for dogs if people could make it? I’m midlands so can go with the majority really Was thinking the 29th October? It’s a...

I have just had the loveliest walk with munchkin - he was so engaged! We did lots of little training bursts - had a game of tag (note to self... need to train out the nipping of my bum 🙄) and then I took him to the bit of the woods where there are numerous squirrels! Cue a manic run around...

Vets today after Maslows limp and subsequent week of meds and lead only walks... luckily we had the orthopaedic surgeon vet who did a really thorough examination, shoulder joints were manipulated, elbows were checked and moved, I had to walk, jog and then run (!!!) around the car park with him...

So this is what we are currently working towards - it’s the equivalent of the the KC bronze good citizen award! We had our first session tonight - it was in a bloody field! Totally different scenario to what we are used too, people walking their dogs on the other side, kids playing football...

I’m getting myself totally muddled with this. I’ve managed to get Mas to ‘go to your bed’ fairly easily... but how do you each the whole run away from you onto a marker or even to run around the marker? I’ve watched half a dozen videos and they are all so different that I can’t quite fathom it.