Hi From Seatle
Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 22:54
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Hi Just trying to add a picture of Fergie to the site, have posted loads on the FB page but not on here before, so bear with me.
An update on Fergie, the boy is gorgeous, he is settling well, we brought him home on 9 December and we feel like he has been here forever. He is an absolute gentleman indoors, he does not graze the sides, chew, pinch or anything else, he is clean and just gorgeous.
For the first few nights he barked constantly and even though we tried to settle him he was having none of it. We had made his bed in our utility room with the door closed, as this is the room where our other labs had lived - our dogs room. However, Fergie did not like it in there at all and so we laid his bed down in the kitchen and he settled and no more barking at all.
He is still strong on the lead but improving, we use a slip lead and a whistle, which works well. He needs socialising and we need to find more people who don't mind their dogs being bowled over to meet us. Fergie is great off the lead, providing there is nothing to chase of course. He managed to sit whilst a flock of sheep walked by in the yard the other day, with a few sharp whistles from me. He usually ignores the cows, but something spooked him the other day and he jumped at them. He was fine today though. We are planning to take him to 1:1 training sessions to help us with his training on the lead and meeting other dogs and then hopefully, we will do some class training. I have to thank Christine Winder for inviting us to her house a few weeks ago when she gave us some great tips and let Fergie loose with her gorgeous lab. They ended up scrapping but it was something that needed to be done, they settled easily afterwards though. So I am hoping that he is not too aggressive with other dogs. I so want him to be friendly.
So that is about it really - as I say he is gorgeous and we cannot thank Glenys and Abi enough for letting us bring him home.
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Hi Just trying to add a picture of Fergie to the site, have posted loads on the FB page but not on here before, so bear with me.
An update on Fergie, the boy is gorgeous, he is settling well, we brought him home on 9 December and we feel like he has been here forever. He is an absolute gentleman indoors, he does not graze the sides, chew, pinch or anything else, he is clean and just gorgeous.
For the first few nights he barked constantly and even though we tried to settle him he was having none of it. We had made his bed in our utility room with the door closed, as this is the room where our other labs had lived - our dogs room. However, Fergie did not like it in there at all and so we laid his bed down in the kitchen and he settled and no more barking at all.
He is still strong on the lead but improving, we use a slip lead and a whistle, which works well. He needs socialising and we need to find more people who don't mind their dogs being bowled over to meet us. Fergie is great off the lead, providing there is nothing to chase of course. He managed to sit whilst a flock of sheep walked by in the yard the other day, with a few sharp whistles from me. He usually ignores the cows, but something spooked him the other day and he jumped at them. He was fine today though. We are planning to take him to 1:1 training sessions to help us with his training on the lead and meeting other dogs and then hopefully, we will do some class training. I have to thank Christine Winder for inviting us to her house a few weeks ago when she gave us some great tips and let Fergie loose with her gorgeous lab. They ended up scrapping but it was something that needed to be done, they settled easily afterwards though. So I am hoping that he is not too aggressive with other dogs. I so want him to be friendly.
So that is about it really - as I say he is gorgeous and we cannot thank Glenys and Abi enough for letting us bring him home.