Epic puppy is epic.
Zeke came to training last night and although he did a lot of barking in his crate he eventually shut up and went to sleep. He watched the Dog Gym class and Obedience One, did some click and treating and lots of meeting and greeting. I also checked with Cathy and we're going to slot into her Puppy Preschool class as of next Tuesday evening. They're up to week three, but we can always just do another round of the class afterwards because I think he'll be much too young to start obedience with anyway.
Today we spent an hour and a half in town. Zeke got a snazzy new collar and lead- red, reflective, super stylish, Rogz- and this rabbit squeaky toy thing that's longer than he is. He had some pats and cuddles from some of my co-workers, then we went for a walk around town. Or rather I went for a walk and he got carried.
We went through as many of those little pedestrian light things (whatever they're called... with the button and the waiting and the cars stopping when the man turns green and makes that horrible dinging noise) as I could find; found some magpies, noisy minors and an ibis; saw lots of different people including two wheelchair users; we sat in a couple of different locations near to the road and did some c/t, offered focus and tugging with the special spaghetti rabbit plushie; walked past and sat beside the road as trucks, buses, cars, motorbikes and this weird little mini tractor thing with a trailer drove past; popped down to the train station and watched a train pull in and pull out again, as well as listen to this annoying lady screeching over the PA system... He didn't bat an eyelid and took everything in his stride.
And as a bonus he's now completely exhausted and will probably be asleep for at least the next couple of hours.
He's now been mistaken for a shepherd as well as rottie, haha. People actually look at me like I'm lying when I say, "No, he's a kelpie". I'm blaming the colouring, and the fact that he still doesn't have much of a face yet XD
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