Tuesday 24 September 2013

Custer went on holiday

We have an excuse for our absence this time, we have all been on our holiday's to Devon.  Might have been a bit on the ambitious side for us really with a new rescue dog, he did find the whole experience a bit much.  Though he enjoyed the 'playing in the sea' parts.  I booked the holiday just after loosing our beloved Alfie, knowing it was likely we would have another dog by now I booked for 2 dogs, spent ages on line finding the right place, with a large enclosed garden.  So, if the dogs were on leads the rest of the time at least they could play at the cottage.  So... I was rather disappointed to arrive and find the fence to be totally inadequate at keeping 'ANY' dog inside and no gate on the property toward the car park and road!  This meant the dogs to be on leads at all times in the garden, not quite what I had wanted, and was very restricting.
such a shame, as the view was stunning, there was a very large field outside the garden too that lead to a main road, so we had to be very careful.  We seemed to spend most of our days searching for a dog friendly beach, the cottage was so remote there was no mobile or internet connection either.
Custer spent so much time on the lead he has got a bit better on it now, he has seemed to have improved with people - he did see a lot of them though in all those coastal villages.  Though, in the back of Daddy's large car he managed to eat 4 leads - as he was not fond of being so far away from us.  In my car he is much closer.
Custer even made a friend at Dawlish Warren beach, this was a nice one.. a bit of a walk to get to the dogs allowed bit, but there he met another rescue dog to play with..
The weather was challenging too, we had an awful lot of rain!! We visited Torquay one day, the weather was dreadful and of course the tourist part was not for dogs, so we found a little walk to take them on leads, went round a corner and it stopped.... whoops!!! almost lost Custer....
At least it had finally stopped raining though, was one of the worst days for the weather.  Jaja was not impressed either to be on lead so much..

So good you can see him twice?? no idea why that happened.

There are more Custer holiday pics, so will do another post to bore you with them.  I am now back to 'clicker' training on our beach each day, also challenging... its all quiet today as Custer ran off to play with a Greyhound - that wore him out.

4 comments:

  1. Glad you all enjoyed your holiday, it's good to see Custer having so much fun!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hate it when holiday places don't give you the full story. We stayed in a 'dog friendly' cottage in Derbyshire a couple of years back. We picked it because it was the only one that didn't say no dogs upstairs. Got there, landlord met us and casually said 'by the way, no dogs upstairs'! Fat chance. Such a shame though.

    ReplyDelete
  3. My daughter recommends clicker training.

    Hope there is some more improvement soon.

    Shirley x

    ReplyDelete
  4. Next time hoping to find REAL 'dog friendly' not just 'dog tolorant'.

    ReplyDelete