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.
Oh my, nearly a month since my last blog post!! So sorry. Just have not taken any photo's and hate to blog without, so I just dragged out an old one so the page was not bare.
I would like to say things are better - but then I would be telling lies. Things have not been better! But after a rather bad morning walk I bumped into a lady I know from dog club who recognised Custer's behavoir and offered some advice.
We have now started 'clicker training' my new book has only arrived today 'click to calm'. Meanwhile I have been teaching Custer all about the clicker and yummy treats, also been working on some heel work. I do have him responding to the clicker, and walking with me really well off the lead (were its quiet).
However, the lunging at dogs is still going on - and he is not too keen on certain people either.
With other dogs he is friendly every time, and only wants to play - I have now found on our morning off lead walkies if I run off he will follow me, so recall is now happening, just wish I could stop him from going in the first place.
I also watched some great video's by kikopup which were fascinating - learning some of her 'catch words' is also helping.
I will try not to leave it a month till my next blog post, and hope to be able to talk progress.
