Inherited wisdom

Sit

Down

Heel

Distracted Mum, focused Pup

The previous pictures do not depict inherited wisdom. They show how brilliantly fast I have succeeded to teach Pita the basics in obedience. We progressed a lot in the beginning, but then we kind of leveled for a while, but I definitely need to continue bring things forward. The thing is that the season has now reached real Israeli summer and outdoor activities have to be moved to evening time to avoid the midday heat. We have taught some tricks with the clicker though, indoors, such as giving high five and rolling over, where the former was a piece of cake, while the latter is still in progress.

If we are getting back to inherited wisdom, Barak definitely learned quite a few things from his late girlfriend Goshen. I can see that now when he applies the same tricks on Pita. For example, if Pita has a bone that Barak wants, he lures her with some other toy, or even just a stick, and since her innocent curiosity demands her to check his toy out, she leaves the bone for Barak to sneak over and take. Goshen always did like this with Barak and I expect Pita, with her female brightness, to develop the same strategy, and sooner or later overcome Barak.

When it comes to what to stick in your mouth, little Pita has not come that far yet. The other day she started puking, and during the afternoon she emptied her system completely, and not until late evening I got her to keep a bowl of boiled rice with liver bullion. She was also quite pitiful and quiet. The dogs had gotten raw beef bones earlier on that day, and Yoram immediately blamed that, but since I already feed her raw on a daily basis without any problems, I did not buy that theory, but instead I believe that she had eaten something inappropriate from somewhere outside. She basically sticks anything organic into her mouth, and happily carry and chew also completely inedible things that filthy people have thrown where it does not belong, alas, the risk of getting irritants into the system is quite high. Luckily, the morning after she was fine again, with full energy and appetite.

I have slowly increased the amount of food she gets during every meal, and now I add raw meat to the puppy kibble both for lunch and evening dinner. In the morning I still only add the unsalted cheese to the puppy kibble. Besides that I improvise, with things like carrot, alfalfa sprouts, garlic, yoghurt, liver bullion, raw tahina, broccoli etc., and whatever is in the bowl, she finishes. She weighs more than 7,5 kg now.

Eyes...

Last, but not least, a short movie of the dogs enjoying their raw bones.