New Toffee Thread

[Atemas]

Aah they’re so lovely

 

[Loraseal]

Gorgeous! Butter would not melt!

 

[Ashley]

Love them! Toffee has grown so fast!

 

[snowbunny]

Making progress on getting the two of them together without a riot.

Ripple doesn’t look incredibly impressed

 

[SteffiS]

Ripple doesn’t look incredibly impressed

I took quite a few pictures and Ripple doesn't look very impressed in any of them .

 

[SteffiS]

Aargh, Toffee pooed in his crate again this morning when I popped him in there so I could have my shower. That's at least once a day now he either poos on the floor or in the crate despite my best efforts at taking him out.

He's such a skinny looking thing, but weighed in at 14kg on Monday, that I haven't worried about the extra food he's having for training and in Kongs. Maybe I'm over feeding him and it's just coming out the other end . He does seem to go about 5 times a day now.

He doesn't eat all the rubbish that Ripple used to as a puppy (and still does) so it's not that. He's still got trouble with one anal gland so I'm trying to keep his poos a good quality. Just going to calculate how much I am actually feeding him.

 

[snowbunny]

If you over-feed a pup, it tends to come out quite runny, so if he's slim and his poos are well-formed, I wouldn't think it's that he's being over-fed.

 

[SteffiS]

If you over-feed a pup, it tends to come out quite runny, so if he's slim and his poos are well-formed, I wouldn't think it's that he's being over-fed.

They are well-formed, there just seem to be so many of them, a definite increase over the last couple of weeks. I know I'm feeding him more because I'm doing quite a bit of training, perhaps it's all ok then. Just a case of being even more vigilant taking him out.

 

[SteffiS]

I've now managed to get Ripple and Toffee together in the crash proof crate in the car. I've been working on it for a while, firstly just sitting together and then very short journeys (5 minutes). Today I went out with my daughter and the dogs to some woods, then to a cafe, then back home. Probably a maximum of 20 minutes together in the car, but in and out several times. There was a little bit of quiet bitey face, occasional barking, and a little bit of squabbling but I threatened to sing 'the wheels on the bus' and they quietened down .
Progress I think .

 

[kateincornwall]

Definitely progress ! x

 

[snowbunny]

Sounds great! It took far, far longer for W&S to start engaging with Squidge in bitey-face and many months before I would have dared put them in the same space in the car together!

 

[SteffiS]

It's quite interesting as indoors things get out of hand quickly so I thought a confined space would be worse. But I suppose because it's a journey with a purpose so they're conscious of what's coming.
Indoors has got a lot better though, but I did have to break up a developing situation this morning with a 'scatter' of cheese - the first thing that came quickly to hand.

 

[Cath]

good work

 

[Leanne]

How has it going? You are being very stingy with updates @SteffiS

 

[SteffiS]

How has it going? You are being very stingy with updates @SteffiS

Lot of stuff still going on at home @Leanne , so I'm struggling to move forward with the boys together. Toffee did well at his test at training, I will try and get an update on that thread tomorrow.

 

[SteffiS]

Discovered this morning that Toffee has been eating his way through the rubber mat in the car crate. He's very neatly reinstated the vet bed before I open the boot so I don't notice. Unfortunately this morning he still had a piece of rubber sticking out of his mouth when I opened the boot - you've been rumbled Toffee .

 

[Jacqui-S]

Oops!

 

[Lab_adore]

Oh dear....

 

[Cath]

Little monkey

 

[SwampDonkey]

What is it about rubber Rory's mad for it?