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DIARY
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CHESAPEAKE SITES |
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Nearly six hours sleep.
Lottie slept from 11pm until 5:15 this morning.
Most of our puppies have had this sort of pattern,
some can last a little longer, others not as
long. There are of course puppies that can
last 7 or 8 hours a night at this age, but
they always belong to someone else!
Lottie is eight weeks
old today and I do believe she has grown noticeably
since we bought her home.
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Meeting Bella
At this stage I just
want her to get used to associating her name with
the act of running towards me. Once she
reaches me I will give her a cuddle and a few bits
of the kibble in my pocket. The whole
family know this game and no-one will call the puppy
in any other way. If we need her, we
simply go and pick her up.
A much more confident
puppy met yet another of our dogs today. Bella
is a one year old lab and very bouncy, so we
got her to sit quite still whilst the pup
investigated this new big dog. Lottie looks
quite assertive in this picture, if anything it is
Bella who looks concerned. I got
Bella to walk at heel around the patio and Lottie
trotted after us both quite happily.
Meeting other dogs is becoming an everyday occurence
for her! Just Annie (the Springer)
to go now.
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we can leave the crate door open all day |
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We can leave the crate
door open all day now as she does not seem to be at
all destructive, prefering her rawhide bone to
the chair and table legs. Quite a nice change
from previous retrievers, I have always found
my labrador puppies to have the chair leg
demolishing powers of a beaver.
She is also the first
puppy I have had in a long time that does not
destroy and swallow her bedding. Which means
that we have been able to leave her with vet bedding
in her basket at night.
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a cuddle and some kibble
to start the puppy recall |
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Lottie's daily food
ration is divided into four. From today I am
giving her three meals and the fourth portion is in
my pocket. I will be giving her this
portion bit by bit as a reward for coming to find me
when I call her name.
To begin with, I
will only say Lottie's name when I have attracted
her attention in some way and she is already
approaching me |
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Unless otherwise
stated*, all text and images on this webpage belong to Pippa Mattinson and may not be
reproduced without written permission
Copyright© Pippa
Mattinson 2006 All rights reserved |
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