Zeke is just... epic. He's an epic, awesome, wonderful little dog.
I am so, so happy with him and have no regrets about getting a pup from Noonbarra. Bloody hell, when they say they can give you exactly the pup you ask for, they really do mean it!
My parents have some parent/teacher interview thing at Liam's school this evening, so I have to go to training about an hour earlier which means Zeke's coming along and he can do some meeting and greeting and we may sidle on into the puppy preschool class for a sit in and socialisation play session.
Tomorrow I want to see if I can get into town to do a bit more socialisation work with him: people, cars, traffic, sounds and sights and smells. He's got such a confident, happy-go-lucky personality I don't want to let that go to waste by neglecting to continue working on exposing him to lots of new experiences.
He also needs a little jacket and a proper lead, so I'll pick that up from work tomorrow as well.
He catches onto things really, really quickly. His self control is lacking- especially when toys are involved; he kind of gets a bit over the top and then I get nommed on- but I was doing a bit of work with him before and I just took one withdrawal from me for him to get the message: teeth on me = no play. He goes a bit bananas especially over this one toy, which was Fletcher's "cuddle thing". It's this little bunny with a spaghetti-ish back; Zeke's no soft mouth (he's nearly ripped one of the legs' off) but he was doing some serious tugging on it. He accidentally let go and then leapt for my hand and started biting and shaking, so I stood up and ignored him until he backed off, then we played again. Next time I got the toy off him, he just sat there and did scary intense eyes, so he got the toy to tug with again. He's getting the hang of going to the toilet outside as well, with his potty word.
I've started click/treating, but not for anything in particular, just charging it. I don't really think I'll get into too much "serious training" until next week or so. We'll just have a lot of bonding this week, clicker charging, impulse control and bite inhibition.
But he's a lot of fun :) Even if my hands have tonnes of tiny holes in them.
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