Chorizo Update

I suppose I should write that update I was meaning to write a couple of days ago! I was busy rearranging my room, buying some stuff from IKEA and a few other stores so that my room would finally have space/places for all of my stuff. I bought a desk, a bookcase and I put up shelves and just made everything pretty and functional. It was a total mess before!

Anyhow! Last wednesday I had Lizzy, the 2 year old Saluki bitch until about 22.30 in the evening. At 22.20 I met Vladimir and Candy, to see how the dogs would react to each other... It went both bad and well. At first he couldn't stand the sight of her, but in a few minutes he could manage to function as long as she kept her distance (meaning about one and a half m). We'll see how things work out between them.

Candy stayed the night so the next day I had him all to myself, since Vladimir still has school. We went to a popular park called Slottskogen, because there is alot of dogs there - on leashes, mostly. I discovered that he has a problem with anything bigger then a french bulldog - but got along fine with anything smaller, he even played with a few dogs. And while he got aggressive towards a few big ones, he didn't stay agressive for that long.

We also made some climbing or maybe I should call it hiking. Well, climbing for the hotdog, but hiking/walking for me - hehe! so he could really use all of his body, jumping and running and climbing obstacles. We also went the next day, but brought Vladimir, and discovered that he does pretty good loose (with the leash still on, but dragging on the ground). He likes when I'm not holding the leash, because then he can pee obsessivly whenever he wants. It's important to just let him be a dog sometimes.

The second visit to the park we also trained some recall, using his favorite food of all. Pâté made from liver. Oh boy was he running! We also bought a leash that wasn't flexi, so that he didn't have to drag around a big clumbsy thing behind him. It's mostly for Vladimirs sake, because he worries alot. About him running away that is - if he's still on a leash all you have to do it step on it to make him halt.

This is me and candy the first day, having climbed/hiked all the way to the top!



There is definatly hope for this little sausage!

Edit: I just had to tell you this; After buying his leash we went to Liseberg to turn him over to Irina, and on the way let him walk with his leash dragging... He hid behind a bush and pooped on the leash (it was very loose stool, perhaps from all the treats) and also got it all over his bum! So we had to drag him along, found a little pond, dipped him in it and started drying him - but the pond was unfortunaly to muddy and he got even dirtier by that! so we had to buy water and rinse his bum and dry him a little bit so he wouldn't be a total mess! Unfortunaly for him the bought water was freezing cold! But we dried him off very quickly, so he wasn't suffering that long. Poor Candy!