Happy birthday John

[Glenys]

I hope you join me in wishing John Weller a happy birthday its been a tough time for him the last twelve months health wise he has been so kind to rescue and also a wonderful freind over many years .

[coco-bean]

Happy Birthday John



I really enjoyed your book by the way

[JoanG]

John

I'd like to thank you for your excellent book and also for the practical advice you have given to so many of us over the years, it has been greatly appreciated.

[Morticia1162]

John.

Best wishes for you and yours.

[Lins]

Hope you had a good one John. No doubt a small tot was involved somewhere.

[jackie]

Happy Birthday John
Hope you had a good day and I hope you are feeling better now, I have been wondering how you have been getting on.

Jackie x

[Pamstep]

Hope you had a great birthday John
Best wishes
Pam x

[Liz5353]

JOHN
We hope it was a good one and we also hope that you are feeling very much better.

Best wishes
Liz Shelly Bonnie Molly n Polly x

[12_paws]

hoping the good days are outweighing the not-so-good....and you have been able to sample the single malt you mentioned
Des x

[LabLover]

John

Hope you enjoyed your day with a malt or two and also that you are starting to feel better

Amanda Jim Milo Zak & Max x

[Diesel Kate]

Nearly missded this post. SO a belated



Hope you had a great one with a couple of your favourite tipples

[John]

Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes!

As Glenys said, it’s been a difficult year for me, but even more so for the dogs, Chloe particularly. They say the first few months are the most important for a puppy, particularly with socialising, and poor Chloe was almost never outside the gate during that time, so we are now well behind the 8 ball, but we’ll get there.

Hopefully things will improve this year, early signs are good so now it’s a question of wait and hope. Meanwhile I’ve started back into Chloe’s training, both working on her own and when Amy is around, as in the vid below. Chloe was just about a year old when I filmed that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3A4L2wv9Po

Love to you all, John

[Lins]

Doing well John. Blimey, you can throw that dummy some distance.

[John]

Blimey, you can throw that dummy some distance.

In fact dummy throwing has never been my strong point. But that's not a problem because I use it as part of the stay exercise, leave them sitting in the stay while I walk out a fair distance, toss the dummy on further, walk back to my dogs then send whichever dog I choose.

I need a really solid stay for when I leave the dogs while I feed the birds, or walk round trying to find where an electric fence is shorting out. A half an hour out of sight stay is not an unusual situation, and this is the lead up to it. An exercise I do is to find a big clump of bushes, sit the dogs up some way away, leave them and walk around the bushes out of sight of the dogs and drop a dummy. I can then go back and sent the dog to find it. So to the dog, me disappearing is not in any way frightening, rather the forerunner of the fun of another retrieve.

The vid below is Amy, 11 years old next month performing "The Three Card Trick"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKWMrk9Ojw

Love, John

[jackie]

Great to hear from you John and I am pleased you doing ok after a difficult year. The girls are looking good loved the three card trick video and the steadiness one, they are so good. My girls would do that for a while until Maggie my chocolate one decides she is doing what she wants and then ruins it all......typical chocolate!!

Anyway you take care of yourself, sending lots of healing thoughts and hugs to you and I hope this year bring better things.

Jackie xx