Dogglibeast Diary
Oct. 20th, 2022 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnThe 7-day challenge is over, so I'm going to try keeping weekly notes instead of daily ones and just update this as I go along.
Wednesday : an offlead wander along the gravelly pebbles and storm-washed seaweed of the Pembroke river shore under iron-grey skies while the wind whipped past. No other dogs about. We practiced 'close in' and 'middle' and 'touch' pretty successfully, on the whole. At one point Theo did whiz off up the cliff to investigate something, but he came back after about 20 seconds.
In the evening I tried to get him excited about playing with his rabbitskin flirt toy, but although he liked the idea to start with and we had a game of tug, he was definitely more interested in the dried chicken treats. Tried vaguely to play proximity games (best food available nearest the human) but this does require a particular level of organisation from the human.
Thursday : A walk around Pembroke Dock, with a brief offlead section on the little beach by Front Street: no recall issues at all. Theo met Frodo the fat ancient mastiff, and was polite to him.
Friday : we went over to the field by the Cleddau Bridge, and wandered around it sniffing. At one point a sheltie popped out bouncing towards us and barked. Theo was off the lead at this point, but he came straight to me for a treat. I had hoped there might be other dogs about, but it was a grey rainy day and the other dogs had apparently stayed home, so we wandered down to the site of the old Cleddau ferry, and gave Theo a quick run on the river-shore there.
We played proximity games: turkey for coming close in or standing in the middle between my legs, kibble for returning at a distance. But soon it started to rain in earnest, so we stopped and hurried back to the car.
Here's Theo discovering an old water-pump from the days before the mains water.
Wednesday : an offlead wander along the gravelly pebbles and storm-washed seaweed of the Pembroke river shore under iron-grey skies while the wind whipped past. No other dogs about. We practiced 'close in' and 'middle' and 'touch' pretty successfully, on the whole. At one point Theo did whiz off up the cliff to investigate something, but he came back after about 20 seconds.
In the evening I tried to get him excited about playing with his rabbitskin flirt toy, but although he liked the idea to start with and we had a game of tug, he was definitely more interested in the dried chicken treats. Tried vaguely to play proximity games (best food available nearest the human) but this does require a particular level of organisation from the human.
Thursday : A walk around Pembroke Dock, with a brief offlead section on the little beach by Front Street: no recall issues at all. Theo met Frodo the fat ancient mastiff, and was polite to him.
Friday : we went over to the field by the Cleddau Bridge, and wandered around it sniffing. At one point a sheltie popped out bouncing towards us and barked. Theo was off the lead at this point, but he came straight to me for a treat. I had hoped there might be other dogs about, but it was a grey rainy day and the other dogs had apparently stayed home, so we wandered down to the site of the old Cleddau ferry, and gave Theo a quick run on the river-shore there.
We played proximity games: turkey for coming close in or standing in the middle between my legs, kibble for returning at a distance. But soon it started to rain in earnest, so we stopped and hurried back to the car.
Here's Theo discovering an old water-pump from the days before the mains water.
