Fajsty in the flowers

When the snow melted the spring flowers dared to peep out of the ground.

After play

Any ideas on how to stop that happening?

Fajsty in the snow

His first really snowy day. He was nuts.

Snowplay

It didnt help that he found someone to play with while being nutty and running around like an idiot.

Mum taught Fajsty how to dance, and Gary thinks its the coolest thing ever

Update

Gary plays football on Tuesday and Thursday evenings so me and Fajsty tag along because Fajsty is the new mascot of Örnia .

We use the grass field to practice things like stay, come, slalom between legs etc.
He's a star at that there, and after that we practice to be calm around people with varied results.

Other than that I have tried to implement brain-exercises in every walk, something that seems to reduce his nuttiness a notch.

Bat dog

Ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner BAT DOG!!!!

Play with me. .

Trying to convince me that it's a better idea to go out and play than to do the dishes. .

Work Work Work ... and Study.

Thank god for good neighbours.


I got work 3 days in a row and with about 8 hours prior notice my neighbours happily agreed to take the care of doggie during the days.

Today it is only from 9 but I have to leave a bit early to do some errands, but the work means 3000 kr extra in pay which means I can buy the agility-tunnel at hööks for me and doggie.

The homework from last weeks training was to note all the dogs calming signals. Well I havent been home that much (because when I am done at work I go straight to school). But I have noticed at one point before the evening walk he licked himself like nothing else (round the mouth) and yawned like 10 times in 5 minutes. So I think he showed the whole weeks signals in that evening.

Sometimes when Gary wants to play or cuddle and Fajsty isnt really up to it he turns away, I'm not sure if its a calming signal or not.

I just found out that Marjoram (Mejram) has calming effects.
Didn't know that before.

Time to go to work.

Have a nice day everybody, just a reminder, you know anybody can comment now, and all the images are clickable!

Spring

I'm telling you. Everybody and everything is convinced it's spring again.

Kitchen belly up

Just now he lay down, fell asleep and rolled over on his back.

Dinner

Fajsty is terrorizing margot from a distance. We got invited for dinner and Fajsty will soon taste his first shrimp.

Photo

As promised. Fajsty and margot before he made margot brown. .

11 days...

11 days since last post..

Thats a long time, I have been quite busy with school so I'm afraid there hasn't been too much doggie-training going on.

We had a class in vallås last Sunday and he behaved slightly schizo, sometimes completely nutty and sometimes an angel.

The angelic moments:
I said Fot, and he walked by my side even though all he really wanted was to run around ... He walked there until I said Varsågod.

We were practicing Stay, I had him lie down, said wait (which is my word for stay) and then rushed off myself. And he stayed. I am sure that if I had rushed behind something he'd come too... but its progress none the less.


I haven't even had time to brush him as often as I would have liked. the goal is a short one every day and a longer one every 3rd or so.



I am thinking about calling a dog hotel and have him stay there for a couple of days, both for him to get used to it and for me to get my life and studies sorted a bit.
But it costs from 150:- per night... for more than one night it is 100:- per night, so for example 3 days will be 300:- But they say they do not take puppies, so I guess that particular one is out...

I have to think some more about that....
Just spent an hour browsing them....

Long doggiewalk planned at 13:00.. May send a picture from there if I get a good one.

Pretending

Pretending to be sleeping and patiently waiting for the evening walk. .

In training

This is what we look like on training . .

Local forest

On the edge of our block there is a tiny bit of forest. Just by the field. We sat there today enjoying the warm sun. It was a nice moment.

A lot

It's been a while since a decent post because I have been really busy....

So here's what happened:

• Sunday = perfect dog after 11:00,
• Monday = Nutty,
• Tusday = more nutty in the morning, excellent in the afternoon,
• Today= So far so good. well behaved, listens to commands and follow them.

Homework 3
Indecisive leader
Have the dog with you without command, walk 2-3 steps forward, 2-3 to the side, 2-3 backwards and keep doing that in a random order. If the dog follows, click and praise. Also vary the speed, snailpace, running, normal, slowly etc...
If doggie has trouble keeping up, just take one or two steps forward, click and praise (if it follows).

Sit and stay with "Here" every 3rd time
Say sit and stay, walk 1 meter away, every 3rd time: say "here" (Hit)and click as soon as the dogs moving towards you and reward when it has arrived, the other times you just walk back and praise when you have arrived back.

Stop
Walk with the dog normally, say "stop" and break softly with the lead if needed. When the dog is standing still with all 4 legs, count to 3 and then click/praise Repeat..

Walk nicely/Heel
Train this on your daily walks, but not always on the same place! Vary amount of steps before reward and never go so far that the dog makes a mistake, then you've gone too fast forwards. Click/Praise as long as the dog goes on the right spot by your side.

Okay... when I first read that I thought, we'll never be able to do all that in one week. But the "heel" (Fot) command works quite well, in any situation I have tried so far (not too many) I can say Fot and he joins up by my side looking expectant. It's pretty cool..
He doesn't stay there for too long unless I talk alot with him, but thats a good exercise for me too.

Next class will be focused on fetching. Must remember to bring something fetchable...


Thing that happened yesterday was that he ran off on a wild crow chase on the beach.... Normally he chases them for a few minutes and then comes back to me, but that time he didn't give a crap about me, was too busy chasing birds,.. he ran so far he was only a dot on the horizon. Then I was happy I was alone at the beach so nobody else could see it.....
I caught up with him after some running, and when he needed to pee I called him. he came trotting as if nothing was wrong. We walked straight to the car and home and into the shower after that.

The stupid rows didn't help though, he'd chase one up and it'd move like 4 meters so he could chase it again. Normal birds fly away!

Next time we go (in a long time I think) he'll be on the rope and I'll have good gloves on (so the rope doesn't burn my hands) . .

Tent?

It seems like pup has discovered a liking for lying under stuff. maybe he thinks we stay up too long. It's almost ten and time for the evening pee walk. I gave up on training today. He was too nutty. We will go to the beach tomorrow and i will try to train some things there.

Summer?

Had it not been so very cold in the air and even colder in the shadow i'd argue that the summer is coming.