The Spaniel Annals

Brian’s weekend adventure was an introduction to water with a wading pool.  After looking at all the dog pools on Amazon for $100 on up, we opted for the Fred Meyer $10 special.  Brian’s first reaction to water was, shall we say, underwhelming:

After this, Brian managed to find a hole in the fence, and the entire activity devolved into grabbing puppy before he runs off to the front of the house.  I’m not ready to life-test his recall yet.  Suffice to say the next priority is plugging up that hole…

Brian’s other “new” introduction over the weekend was to the “2-ball game,” which teaches him to play with two toys, releasing one to go to the other.  It develops the basis for “outing” an object more naturally.  While I don’t have any pictures for this, I soon realized he was not ready to have both a retrieve and switch to a new toy all at once (he started picking up the new thrown toy and immediately dropping it), so we are backing up to just playing and tugging, switching back and forth between two toys at play.  I’ll try to have some video later today.  I’m looking forward to getting more adventurous once Brian has his next set of shots next week.