Things to Do with Daisy

Miss Daisy is definitely finding her feet. She’s such a puppy! I’m getting to know her better and we had our first play session today with just us, no toys or treats.

Things I want to do this week with Daisyface:

• More clicker training! Some offered object interaction would be nice.
• Ball obsession work (my least favourite game)
• More crate games — learning Go to Bed would be useful!
• Recall work … she’s getting cheeky.
• Play!
• Get more photos

She is getting better at life. She’s better at interacting with other dogs, although she’s still quite reactive to dogs she meets on walks. This is generally just barking from a distance, ala Dylan, but because she has little to no reward system in place just yet (not one that she trusts to revert to), it’s difficult to regain her attention. She is also somewhat uncomfortable with people, and the main issue there is her rate of escalation, which is FAST; she goes from minor calming signals to snapping within seconds. (Snapping is air snapping, there’s no bite intention and her bite inhibition is great). She’s done this maybe two or three times? Always in situations where she’s tired. Tired Daisy = grumpy Daisy.

Interesting that she has absolutely no kill instinct though. Rio found a squirrel to play with this weekend (and got bitten by it) but Daisy had no desire to kill it (neither did Rio or Dylan … we left it alive and intact, but possibly ready to die from stress). She also didn’t register the Mink? Weasel? Thing? that crossed paths with us the other day.

Bit of research suggests Daisy is maybe a Plummer Terrier? Not a breed I’d ever heard of, and not much of a real “breed” at all, but rather a working terrier strain that mainly consists of Jack Russell with a bit of Beagle and Fell terriers from the 80s. Speculation, however!