Its been such a long wait to bring the boys home to their new home. I picked them up two weeks ago and while they definitely still know me they weren’t sure about what was going on. They had just spent 6 months away in place surrounded by other dogs and while I know they were in good hands they didn’t have regular one on one walks and lots of people around them.
The two weeks home were also unstructured and while we had small walks in the morning and the evening there hadn’t been any good long walks on leash to really set things in place. This weekend with everything all in place we have started good long walks and I also got a leash that allow me to tether them together.
Been a total success the dual leash as walking them on separate leashes is very cumbersome.
We hit Wanda beach on Saturday which is a leash free dog beach after 4pm and all the times I’ve been there before the dogs i have seen have been well mannered so I felt comfortable taking them there. As they are small dogs with no idea of aggression it only takes one badly trained dog to cause lots of damage.
Well they loved the beach, and Ranger is catching up on his socializing with people really fast. We did a great walk on Saturday (pre urbanathlon for me) and after some time on leash on beach passing the main crowd I let them run free and they did really well.
Did another walk on Sunday (post urbanatlon) from Sue’s place. Ranger freaked alittle as lots of people and noise and he seems to have some issue with large white concrete spaces, but after a while he adapted back into the walk. By the time we got to the beach he was totally fine and I could let them both off the leash the whole time. The basically stayed by us the whole time and both of them now have no issue with the water coming in onto there legs. Was great fun walking them and I can see us doing this all the time now.
When they come home they are totally exhausted and just fall asleep! Tonto is totally happy and loves it all. He was so fast asleep last night it took him about two hours to realise that I had gone to bed! They are adapting well to the new house and now I can start to get some routine workings with them. Just so happy that Tonto is relaxed again and knows he is finally at home. He has changed address and country so many times since he came into my life and its good that now I can give him his final home!
About the only thing is really does not like is that he is totally not allowed chicken and since I’ve been a little bit lazy and getting spit roasted chickens from the nearby place (which are very tasty) he is rather pissed off that he can smell it, see it but not allowed it!
Both of them are now fast falling into puppy dreams of a good day, they have had another long walk with loads of things to see and smell so it sensory overload in such a good way for them!