More Day Trips

It’s another edition of My Puppy Is Amazing … although I’m not sure I can take credit, she’s just really awesome all on her own. We had a wander around the village yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks, she wasn’t at all bothered. A bit perturbed by the occasional farm truck but quick to recover. We then waited at the bus stop and caught the bus home, which apparently wasn’t scary at all. Huh.

Amused and a bit sad at how many people clearly wanted to come and say hi to Ribean, but couldn’t bring themselves to actually do so. I think this is a British thing, being afraid to ask if we can pet an adorably fluffly puppy. Rio tried very hard with some people to make them like her, she wriggled up and when they ignored her or just smiled at her, she has the good attitude of “your loss”, which I agree with.

Lots of work on waits this week, as I suddenly realised we hadn’t really done anything on them at all, apart from basic impulse control stuff. So far so good, but it’s soo boring to train. I realise why my other dogs don’t have good waits, it’s because I’m too lazy to train them properly.

The current big thing is Rio does not like being left on her own, she’s always been a bit of a temper-tantrum puppy about being left alone whilst we go into the other room, but it’s usually just a bit of grumping before she settles down in her crate. Apparently being left whilst we leave the house for 40mins equals full-on screaming temper tantrum. We know this because we didn’t actually leave her alone, my sister was tucked away upstairs (unbeknownst to Rio, of course) on listening duty to see how long she screamed for. The whole time, apparently. We need to work on this, but I don’t really know how, I’ve never had a puppy do this before!