This'll Be Interesting...

The only thing I've worked on with Zeke since I got him is keeping his pointy little fangs to himself (with very little success, I'm not afraid to admit), a bit of offered focus and focus in motion, tugging, the very start of sit, and offering behaviours because it was pissing me off that he'd only throw a sit my way. Now he's a bean and doesn't stop moving :D Win!

I sent a confirmation email back to Maree about the demos and she replied with, "Will your puppy be old enough to do a 'puppy demo'?"

And since he's coming along anyway, I figured why not, may as well give it a shot. It'll basically just be Maree explaining about how we start puppies at the club, with some play and focus, and if anything it'll be an awesome opportunity to at first see how Zeke reacts to that sort of environment (ring with people all around) and an equally awesome opportunity to train and work him in such a distracting place.

And socialisation! Is it sad I'm so fucking excited about being able to socialise my puppy? Ormeau Fair has become like a mini EKKA- there's tonnes of people, loud rides, chaos, noise, running kids... So much to see, so much to do, so much potential to expose Zeke to. Yay!

I swear that puppy has had more socialising work done in the past two weeks than both Fletcher and Charlie had in the first few months I had them. In addition to him going to agility training on Monday nights and puppy preschool on Tuesday nights, once I start Charlie back at Commando he'll come along to that on a Sunday morning, and I'm going to see if I can go along to the puppy preschool class on a Saturday morning as well. And I'm still trying to get him into town at least once a week for an hour or so- but he's just getting so bloody heavy and won't be fully vaccinated for another month, gah- as well as taking him along to trials and in the car. He has his ten week vaccination on Wednesday, then it should be four weeks and then he can have the final booster shot and he'll be set! And then the fun can really begin, because he'll be going to even more places. And we can go to the beach once it warms up, and we can do longer stints in town because I won't have to carry him and get aching arms.

Fun fun fun.