Wednesday 15 October 2008

Inko has been having a good week so far.

She's putting on weight really well which is good - weighed her yesterday and she'd gone up from 4.8kg last Thursday to 6.4kg!! No wonder she's feeling so much heavier when we pick her up!!

She's also been getting good at having longer and longer on her own which is such a relief for when we are both back at work in a week and half so that I know she'll be happy after we leave her until I get back at lunch to see her.

Adam has been doing lots of training with her whilst he's been off work the last few days - practising 'watch', 'sit', 'down', 'stand', 'paw' and 'come' and she's doing really well with these...although 'come' could still do with some improvement as it falls on somewhat deaf ears if there is anything even marginally interesting around!! LOL!! We had a chance to show off her progress at training this evening - she did all perfectly!! The new things we learnt at training this evening were some of the basics around walking to heel. She did really well, even with the distraction of the other puppies (who she took much more interest in this week than last week which was really good to see considering her slight hesitance last week).

She's also been good with letting us brush her, check her teeth, handle her ears, face and feet, and she has also started having her teeth cleaned every few days. We are using a small child's toothbrush and poultry flavoured dog toothpaste. She seems to enjoy it. I don't know if I'm doing it right or not but I'm kind of just rubbing it around a bit while she has a bit of a chew!! Reckon it's doing the job reasonably ok! Managed to get a quick video of a toothbrushing session!


1 comment:

Jennifer said...

Looks like she's brushing her own teeth when she puts her paw up :-) She's doing so well! Her mum took much longer to get the hang of the toothbrush. And her dad still struggles...