These Patterdales are dead soft. I've just got all togged up ready to go out in the rain, Plastics trousers the lot and he ran back inside. I called him and he sat down. Softy!
ETA Should have listened to the dog. There was a slight lull in the rain, so I took him. Two minutes in, torrential...
Eddi was interested, but even he's not hard enough to get that. He's mad at me, I went for a run and didn't take him. He goes running if OH takes him alone or we go together, he was heading for the door as I put my tracksuit top on, had to disappoint him. Now he wants to play, better oblige!
The garden is totally secure. OH was going to go back through one gate, Eddi was in the house at this point, and he has a memory like a sieve with holes in it, and he went in through the other gate that he's just unpadlocked. I spent weeks Eddi- proofing the whole area that Eddi can play in...
He did get out twice in the first week we had him. the first time he was just in the field at the back in the brambles, OH wanted to take him back to the rescue centre, I wish we had, but I felt sorry for the dog. The second time he did go down a fox hole and came off worst, all superficial, we...
Somebody had seen the dog on the street, and she said her son saw a black Patterdale in the garden. I know some dogs will attack chickens, does he have to be put down now?
I feel sick to the core. The neighbour opposite was away at the weekend. She's just come to see me and asked if Eddi got out on Saturday. Well I knew something bad was coming. I didn't know she had 3 chickens, - well sadly, she now has two. I don't know what we should do with Eddi, his prey...
Finally prised him out. We did a looooong walk to make up for the missed one. Only met one dog in the distance.
What furry animal is he trying to get to. Is it a rabbit? Is it rat?
No it's a log floating on the river!!
To be honest, he's making good progress doing what I'm doing for now. I've kept that as another option to try if he stagnates with this improvement. Thanks. I can even stopping pulling sometimes, by calling 'Eddi' or 'Eddi sit' and it breaks his thinking.
I spoke to the vet about the tag thing...
Today's walk. Hasn't happened yet, he's been out for his toilets and it's talk to the paw until the torrential rain stops. (We did have snow forecast, so could have been worse).
Cute! One regret about adopting adult dogs, is that you never have the cute stage with them. My Beagle would have been soooo cute.
Actually, so would Eddi have been, Patterdale pups are too cute for their own good!
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