Strike a pose

My camera is never redundant when I take it with me on a walk (especially having a dog who's such a little poser)!!

Training class (week 7)

I know, I know - I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but if I say that we were given an entry form for an obedience competition last night, I think that pretty much sums up how well Jet did in his training class!

Despite being in a group of one and two year old dogs, our little lad at only four months old completed all the exercises to a really high standard. Our new instructor didn't think he'd be able to manage a down and stay and so was suitably impressed when he did it like a little pro. His recall work was perfect as was his heel work - what a little superstar! I have to confess that although we've been doing training every day at home I wasn't expecting too much of him on his first night joining a new group - how wrong I was!

It's a real shame that we wont be able to enter him in the class but we'll be in Bristol at the weekend. Nevermind though, he's being put forward for his Kennel Club GCDS (good citizen dog scheme) puppy foundation assessment soon, so fingers crossed for that.

Pictures from today's walk

(Why does she insist on taking pictures when there's an adventure to be had?? I'll sit for this one photo and then I'm off exploring....)

Anyone for a spot of bird watching?

After finding some swan feathers to carry around, Jet made his way up the stairs of one of the hides at the Ouse Washes RSPB reserve. Call me paranoid, but something tells me that the RSPB staff might have something to say if they found a gundog in a bird watching hide eyeing up the ducks and geese with the remains of a swan in its mouth..!?

Comedy running pictures

If there's one thing you can count on a weimaraner for it's a photo opportunity - just take a look at these!

What was that??

We went for a walk at Welches Dam this afternoon - here's our boy with his eyes practically on stalks taking in all the sights. It's a lovely place, very quiet and tranquil and we're lucky as it's only a few minutes from our house. I enjoyed the scenery and the peace and quiet, whilst highlights for Jet included finding the remains of a bird carcass and an old leather glove. Nice.

We've had some quite nice walks over the past few days actually - yesterday we all went to Sandringham and walked around the woods there and the day before that we found a footpath and some fields as we were on our way to the pet shop to buy food (this dog sure can eat!!) James and I were in the middle of practising recall with Jet when a goldie cross came racing over to play. She was a sweetie and she and Jet greeted each other nicely. The thing that really impressed me though was that I was able to call Jet back from the other dog - he left her and ran straight to me, so it turned out to be an even better recall exercise than originally planned!

Training Class (week 6) - Graduation!

Hurrah! Our gorgeous boy did so well in this evening's class that our instructor has decided to send him up to the next group - as of next week we'll be in the big boys class! Despite the fact that there weren't any formal training classes over the Christmas period we carried on practicing the commands that Jet had learnt - so much so that he was the only puppy in tonight's session to be trusted to perform some of the exercises off the lead, including a recall exercise and also a sit, wait and recall - he was a real little star and the only one to be moved up from the begninners class (brag, brag, brag)! Actually, not so little - at 16 weeks he now weighs 22kg!!