Well thankfully Murphy passed the vet
checkup with flying colours. They all thought he was adorable. He also got to
meet a few other dogs while there and the vet showed him how to meet them so
Mark said it all went very well which is great to hear. He is in perfect health
and he has a few more fans in the clinic too. Other good news is that we can
start bringing Murphy out on very small walks but we are to keep him away from
dog parks until he is fully vaccinated. Murphy and Mark had a great boys
weekend. They went down to the local café for breakfast in the morning and got
a ton of attention from passers-by and patrons.
So now the exciting times of lead training
begins. We’ve had the lead on him around the house so he can drag it around and
get used to it. Every so often he grabs it and starts chewing. I try to stop
him quickly but it must feel great to chew because as soon as I do he is back
to it again. We have had a few successful walks and a few half successes. He
instinctively knows when we turn to head home. I must be giving off some signal
that he knows we’re close. He then starts to pull and race ahead. I’ve
combatted it by turning and immediately walking the back the other way, this is
to teach him that I dictate where we go not him and it seems to be working. It
takes a very long time to walk about 30metres and in the evenings I definitely
have a lot more time to work with him on it. We had a very good walk today so
it’s an improvement but who knows what tomorrow brings.
I was just going to comment on well his
toilet training has been going and he has peed on the kitchen floor behind me.
I guess we can’t cross that one off the list just yet. The annoying this is I
had just walked outside with him to see if he needed to go as well. Very
annoying… house privileges for this evening revoked!!
We are trying to alternate his toys as well
so he is kept entertained. Clearly this wasn’t enough for him yesterday as he
dug a lovely big hole in the garden. If I was to guess he wanted to get into the
dog next door. Thankfully our fences go quiet deep and our grass is quiet hard
so he didn’t get through. To stop him going any further I brought down a
plastic storage box and filled it with water, no chance of him being able to
move that. I also gave him a small chew bone and a tennis ball. He has never
had a tennis ball before so he had loads of fun with that which is good. I came
home to no new holes and no attempts to getting into the one already dug. I’m
chalking it up to a success.
Now for some snippets:
- Murphy loves sitting down on walks
- He doesn’t chew on the lead that much anymore
- His ears are starting to stand up… it’s very cute
- Crate training is the best thing in the world he sleeps like a baby every night
- I am very grateful to have tiled floors
- He doesn’t like the broom handy to keep him from charging in the door. Just its presence is enough to persuade him to stay back.
- He still hasn’t discovered there is an upstairs in the house I pray he never does
- Murphy discovered his tail yesterday and ran in circles, gave us a good chuckle
- If someone has a smacko (dried beef strips) Murphy is your best friend
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