Echo - Guide Dog

[Boogie]

*whispers*
I want a puppppeeeeee!!!!!

*slaps self in face*

 

[M.F.]

whistle fed from five weeks old so it’s really ingrained

Almost tempted to get a puppy so that I can start off training properly! Why didn’t I know about these things 7.5 years ago?! Sadly my first two books were by Caesar Milan and our puppy school was useless.

 

[Natalie]

Almost tempted to get a puppy so that I can start off training properly! Why didn’t I know about these things 7.5 years ago?! Sadly my first two books were by Caesar Milan and our puppy school was useless.

Don't fret, so many of us have been there.I remember eyeing up those 'stop barking' sprays in the petshop when Monty wouldn't stop crying, barking and howling as a pup. So nearly bought one. We've all learnt a lot along the way.

 

[Natalie]

*whispers*
I want a puppppeeeeee!!!!!

*slaps self in face*

But thinking about it logically, if you have a puppy you are only increasing your canine household volume by 25%. If I had a puppy I would be increasing mine by 100%. So if you have a puppy it would quite clearly be 4 times easier for you and I could live vicariously via your pup instead

 

[snowbunny]

Well, when you put it like that...
You can’t argue with maths!

 

[Boogie]

Oi Tatze, that’s MY bed!

 

[snowbunny]

I iz a teeny tiny lil puppee.

 

[Selina27]

So funny

 

[Boogie]

Dishwasher training has begun.

It works really well, pups sit nicely while I load/empty the dishwasher. But there is no end to it as the dishwasher becomes forever associated with treats. Spencer used to drop everything when he heard the dishwasher open - so that he could sit and wait for his treat.

 

[Boogie]

Tatze says “I’ve been expecting this!”.

 

[Boogie]

Echo’s brother Vinny with their Mum. He went today - they’ve found him a puppy walker in Scotland.

 

[snowbunny]

Mum is very pretty

 

[Beanwood]

Scotland! Lucky Vinny! Mum is so beautiful, she looks like a really calm, laid back girl

 

[Boogie]

 

[Lab_adore]

I want to fly over, steal echo, and fly home with him tucked under my jumper.
That face....

 

[Ashley]

But there is no end to it as the dishwasher becomes forever associated with treats.

I had no idea this was guide dog training level stuff - I started this with Quinn as a puppy and she drops anything and runs over for her treat when I load/unload the dishwasher! I'll have to brag to OH (even though I only did it because dog licking dishwasher personally grosses me out, I don't know why).

 

[Boogie]

I had to put his bed by the radiator as he kept sleeping next to it and it seems too hot to me.

He’s growing!

We have started short daily grooming sessions, with the zoom groom, as he will need a lot of grooming in the future especially his tail feathers and his ‘knicker’ area. I hold a treat for him to chew while I’m doing it. It took me months to get Spencer used to being groomed, but Echo is going to be a breeze. He loves being stroked and even holds of mouthing for a nice stroke under the chin.

I say it every day - they are all so different.

 

[Beanwood]

Echo you are just soooo scrummy!
Is it just me but every-time I look at this thread I get "Echo Beach " by Martha and the Muffins... going round and round and round in my head...

 

[Boogie]

Echo you are just soooo scrummy!
Is it just me but every-time I look at this thread I get "Echo Beach " by Martha and the Muffins... going round and round and round in my head...

I can’t wait to take him to a beach!

 

[kateincornwall]

Oh goodness, he is adorable , gorgeous Echo xx