Imagine taking that home nowadays to show to your parents ! I got marks for my woodwork exam once ..... I got two out of 100 ! The teacher said he'd given me the two marks because I'd made a good job of sharpening my pencil !
How times have changed, the poor teachers are frightened to say, "Boo !" to the kids now.Anyway, I got my lab pup a few hours ago and this is the start of her report card. I will try to keep it up to date but probably not every day. We have called her "Ghillie" and she is what labs should be , she is black. Nane o' this new fangled , yellow, gold, chocolate or fox red nonsense ! Labs are black , so there !
She is not quite 8 weeks old and I.M.O. is a good looking pup .....not fat and not thin. I hope to keep her that way ..... I don't like rolling in fat puppies. She's been vet checked for easily observable faults but I still gave her a quick once over within two minutes of seeing her. I found nothing wrong at all.
I at once liked her temperament. She is a pretty confident sort of puppy with strange people and with strange dogs .....as long as the dogs are friendly. More about that later. She is keen on puppy type retrieves on objects both large and small. I bought her a rope chew toy and she has already retrieved that straight back to hand over about 15 feet of my living room floor. Just to prove to us this was no chance occurrence she did the same when my grandson threw it for her.
At present I am praising her for this and giving her the toy straight back again.
She yodelled her head off for about the first 8 miles of our journey home but then slept through the rest of the journey. She was not car sick, she just objected to being shut in a cage without anyone petting her.
She also yaps if she wants to play with us or with one of my other dogs....... I am not tolerating that . It is the only thing she has been ticked off for doing so far. She has widdled three times in the house so far but nothing else has been "forthcoming" ........ so far ! I will probably cage her tonight and then sleep on the settee nearby ready for an early morning sprint into the garden with her.
She was released into the garden as soon as we arrived home and she at once spotted old Billy and Edge out in the run and went straight over to visit them. Billy was fine but Edge took a bounce at the run wires growling as he did so. This made her a bit frightened of Edge when I released him to meet her but she did not perform a submission widdle for him or for Billy or Charlie when they got to meet her. Her tail went down a bit but that was all.
She has been trying to get Billy and Charlie to play with her, so far without success and both dogs have given her a low warning growl when she tried to get into their respective beds alongside them. She at once heeded those warnings and left them alone in the beds. Edge still worries her a bit . Apart from him growling when he first met her I think his colour is unusual to her and therefor a cause for wariness ?
It is Edge I expect to be her main playmate eventually though. He has missed having Libby to play with so I think the pup will fill that gap in his life.
My wife and I both thought her name "Ghillie" would sound almost exactly like my cocker Billy's name but it shouldn't matter too much as old Billy is as deaf as a post anyway and we use hand signals for him.
Wullie
