Individuals.....

Today was a fun day.First off I took the dogs out for a half hour road walk.Foof needs a bit of work at not wanting to react when she sees dogs out in the street.Because we haven't been in any classes (where she gets rewarded alot for watching other dogs run and generally be mental) and been walking alot in my estate which has a lot of very noisy dogs,she def needs a reminder of how I'd like her to behave when another dog starts kicking off.

So we did our road walk...where we saw no other dogs ha,typical! then I groomed 2 Tervs.

Next I took Foof down the woods for a 20 min rampage.Something I really love about her is how playing with me is just as good to her as anything else in her life.For instance Mookie in those woods will be on red alert for squirrels ALL of the time.Her critical distance for being off lead and happily responsive to me is around,erm,probably about half an inch ;) bwahahaha.I can stop her from being out of control,but no one is having fun as I do,Mookie would far rather hunt than play with me,or have treats.So I tend not to walk Mookie down there much.

So we went into the woods,and immediatly could see around 6 squirrels,Foof danced around the bottom of the trees they were up,but as soon as I picked up a stick and called her,she was excited to come back and play hunt the stick after I'd thrown it,she loves searching,and with the woods being an old Roman dyke and about 50 feet deep,had a nice work out as I'd throw the stick down the banks over and over.

I took her back and took Mookie out on her own,to a local field which has only one entrance,and there is hardly ever anyone in there.I got her out of the van and walked down the alley into the field only to see there were 2 people and 5 dogs in there already,which was pretty annoying.

I recognised the people and dogs,having seen them around that area walking quite a few times,there were 2 beautiful Huskies,2 shepherds and a little fat Staffie.

I was going to turn round and leave,but I felt a bit stubborn,and often with that field whoever was in there first (myself included) will leave when someone new comes in.I decided to keep Mookie on the lead and do a lap of the field to see what they did.

Within the first minute all but the Staffie ran over,they were quite 'puffy' in posture,breathing and attitude,and it really spells out how good Mookie is with other dogs that she could handle those 4 bigger dogs all crowding round her,she had her hair up,and was quite clearly telling them not to push their luck,which I helped her with.

The owners called the dogs back,with varying degrees of success,but the black and white Husky bitch really wanted to stay with us and play with Mookie,who was making it clear she would quite like a run with the bitch too.

So I let Mookie off and she led the 4 of them on a merry dance till one by one they got bored and gave up.I wish I would have got some photos of all of them,but I needed to concentrate on what they were doing.

Mookie of course thought it was hilarious having them all chase her :) Only running dogs,Lurchers and the like can catch Mookie and she just loves to be chased!!It was so nice watching her with all the other dogs.I would never have let them mix had I had all of mine with me,so I'm going to really make more of an effort to take them out individually most days.I was so impressed with Mooks,she really is just so cool :)

I went back to work,grooming a lovely new customer called Tippy,who's a Labradoodle,she was 9 year sold but looked and acted more like 9 months,what a fun little girl she was,and she loved my lot too.

Then after work I took Shadders out for a quick mile long jog.He really is perfect to run with.Mookie loves to go jogging but she really would rather go faster and pulls quite a lot which hurts my knee,Flooz will run with you on lead,but after about half a mile she is so clearly bored to tears of it,but Shady is just right,his trot is the perfect pace for me to run at,and he just trots along looking at me half the time and smiling,he does occasionally give my leg a little nip...just to keep me moving along ;) hahhaha naughty Pointy!

Once we got home having dropped Rosie and Dylan back,we went for another mile on lead,and we saw 3 dogs which foof pointed out to me then danced about waiting for the treats which is the deal we have when she doesn't react to other dogs :) Such a great day.

I'm not sure why the Universe keeps throwing Huskies at me? I want one bad enough as it is!!

A couple of weeks ago we found this little girl straying on my street,sadly we also quickly found her owner and gave her back lol.

Mookie barely even trying but keeping easily out of reach of one of the Huskies.

2 of my favourite customers,Mac and Ruby.Mac can be a little aggressive with people ,but we are firm friends now.Though that is a little hard for his mum to realise lol.Ruby is just the sweetest girl :)