Or rather I'm officially getting this puppy:
This is Zeke, and he'll be coming home either this weekend or early next week, depending on whether or not we're driving down or he's flying up. He was seven weeks old yesterday, and sounds absolutely perfect for me.
I can't wait to meet him :)
In other news, I'm attempting to teach Charlie how to do a handstand. Even if we don't get the finished product, it's helping his touch and back end awareness anyway.
At the moment he can pop up onto the couch, but we haven't progressed past that stage because he worries and shut down which means we have to stay at the same stage for a whole lot longer. I've also got to get some rings and a toilet plunger to work on his quoit trick as well. He was getting a bit manic at training last Tuesday night when we did this, and if I was too "slow" getting the next round of treats broken up, he started very pointedly butting the top of the pole and doing nose targetting.
I'm actually really stoked he's showing that sort of iniative these days, since before it was always "I'mma just sit here and focus focus focus because that's safe". He's still nowhere near as secure and confident as I'd like, but he's definitely made a bucket load of progress, even just within the last twelve months; heck, in the last six months.
Despite the fact that my dad is "so knowledgable" and no one else in the house is going to listen to me and follow my guidelines (despite the fact that Zeke is going to be my dog), I'm going to be aiming to raise him with zero corrections: no physical, no verbal. My main goal for him is to develop a super confident dog that knows how to think and learn and experiment.
Everything else is just going to be icing.
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