Harry New pics
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
I think I’ll change Harry’s name to Harriet. What a big wuss, he is! He’s so confident in the house but now that he is getting out in the big, bad world, we are seeing a different side to him. He has met a couple of dogs when he has been out for his walkies, a very calm Golden Retriever and two Westies that all live in the same street. I took him out for a walk with Sandra’s youngster Olivia and a lovely,bouncy Labrador called Charlie, well, the noise that Harry set up was quite frankly embarrassing, you would of thought that he was being murdered! Consequently the other two dogs decided to steer clear of him and carried on their own game of rough and tumble and completely ignored him. Harry was off lead and just toddled along at heel, (wonder how long that will last) for the rest of the walk and was well and truly shattered by the end of it. By the end of the walk there were a few sniffs exchanged and no noise , so maybe next time he’ll be brave enough to get stuck in and have a good play. The thing is when you see a young pup getting distressed like that, you do have to fight the urge to reassure them but I knew he was in no danger so I just had to let Harry see that I wasn’t worried. Always remember to praise the behaviour that you want to keep and ignore the stuff you want to get rid of, but its harder to do in practice.
