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@Candy and GGJ came for a walk/lunch/play/run around the garden/play/chat. We all had good fun and the time went too quickly. Treats on the dam. Toy in the tree! Candy rescuing the toy. Spencer swimming. GGJ swimming All dogs nice and tired. :):)

Put your happy puppy memories here. :love::love:

A few puppies ago I remember asking how to get them to woof to go out instead of just standing at the door and staring. I have cracked it! This has worked now for three pups - not a big sample, but it’s worth a try. I wait until they are well able to hold it in (seven or eight months old) and...

This was ours and we netted quite a few members. :giggl: ———-> “The Forum received notifcation an hour or so ago (i.e. this morning, UK time) that due to last-minute preparation for the scenario of a hard Brexit, emergency adjustments will be made to GDPR policy in the UK, where the Forum is...

This tweet has gone viral - it reminds me how visible me and Spencer are at all times. Best behaviour boy, best behaviour!

We are re-decorating downstairs and I’m considering getting doggy dressing gowns. Zaba is the worst culprit - he’s a mud monster, hosing down and using aquasorb towels helps but our walls are proof this doesn’t completely eliminate mud and mess. There’s a muddy line at dog hight round the whole...

As a bit of fun and to do a little fundraising for Guide Dogs we are having a ‘dog show’ thread! Put your favourite photo here, pay £2 to my JustGiving page and ‘like’ other people’s posts. The one with the most likes wins (on 10th March at 9pm - the last day of Crufts.) The prize is a...

We went, on Friday, to Wagga Wuffins canine college. It’s an indoor arena where they teach scent work. They were all spaniels except Tatze! One bloke had his spaniel and a baby puppy spaniel 13 weeks old. I cuddled him for ages. (the puppy, not the bloke!) Tatze was a superstar. Really...

@Candy and I are meeting up for a doggy free run in the park, followed by a short walk down the canal, followed by lunch in the dog friendly pub. Place - Hebden Bridge Meet - at the station, 11am ish Day - one Tuesday soon, TBA Anyone fancy joining us? :dug:

The Perfect Fit is great, but - try as I might - I end up faffing to put it on and, worse, getting it on the wrong way. :rolleyes: The dog is all excited and you aren’t allowed to give any cues to stand still etc. They want them excited! So I’ve demoted the Perfect Fit to her walks, when she...

I love the Mantrailing so much, and so does Tatze. But I can only realistically go once every two months as it’s an hour’s drive and Mr Boog and I share a car - so it ties up the car for most of the day. We do really well at sharing the car and it saves a fortune, but things clash sometimes -...

Choice. In modern dog training, we often talk about the importance of choice: letting the dog choose, helping our dog make “good” choices. This would have been anathema to many dog trainers just a few years ago, when the emphasis was on getting dogs to comply (whether through force or reward)...

I’ve been a bit slow to train this with Spencer - probably because he was very mouthy. So I’ve printed the GD guidelines on it to keep me on track doing it for a few minutes daily. :)

Spencer is seven months old and has slept really well at night, until now. Last Friday he had his kennel cough immunisation, then on Monday and Tuesday he had several bouts of diarrhoea during the night. He barked to let me know and let him out, which was good - no mess indoors. The diarrhoea...

Spurred on by @snowbunny’s gorgeous photo of Shadow and Willow on the harness thread - let’s reminisce in photo form about our tiny wee scraps. :dug:

First of all many thanks to @Rosie and Pongo for introducing us to Mantrailing. I really enjoyed it and Tatze Absolutely Loved it! She was keen from the moment we got out of the car. There were six dogs altogether and we did three trails each. Every long trail is followed immediately by a...

FOMO - fear of missing out. I’m not sure it’s that but it’s not anxiety, as far as I can tell, it’s just a ‘I WANT TO BE WITH YOU! problem. I mentioned on the adolescence thread that Spencer is fine being left alone if we are leaving the house. But, if I’m popping to another room he goes...

Just a general :hug: and a huge, huge THANK YOU to @snowbunny for all her hard work. Without her this forum wouldn’t exist and I don’t know where we’d all be - lost in cyberspace! :clap:

I want buy a dog book for my brother’s partner for Christmas. They are looking for a rescue dog. She’s being very careful to choose the right dog for them (a small dog). They lost their beloved 16 year old Yorkie, Pepsi, last year and feel ready to start again. She’s looked at lots of rescues...

They train their dogs well then get too proud. I was walking into the park this morning when a woman got out of her car. Her labradoodle was off lead and dashed across the road to see Spencer. My heart was in my mouth, it’s not a busy road but cars go fast up there and the park is on a bend...