A good day

Latest pic of Jess, I think there is a slight improvement

Today and yesterday have been good days, no little accidents. Gave both dogs a good brush - it is quite strange having a short haired dog after my hairy Bernese. My last short haired dog was Bess a Rotty x Lab - a beautiful girl who I sadly lost at the young age of 8 yrs due to paralysis after a spine infection.

I have noticed with Jess that when she wakes from a deep sleep her tongue is sticking out slightly - see photo on previous post. She always looks so groggy bless her but it is nice to see as when she first came she only catnapped so hopefully she now feels safer and more settled.

Jess is still doing well with the cats, I have to watch her with them in the garden as if they play chase with each other I can see that Jess would like to join in but I don't quite trust her enough for that to happen yet. She is happy to be next to the cats when they are on my lap but is still wary as Dudley the male has been known to swipe at her if he feels she is too close. This has made her wary with Tabetha and Whizzy but she has nudged then and given a sloppy kiss - or was that a way of tenderising them before the chomp !!

Jess with Tabetha

I went along to a training class this evening that one of my friends attends. I chatted to the trainer about taking Jess along in a few weeks time, this will I hope be a good way of allowing her to socialise and although I will be doing a lot of training with her myself it will be good to do some training with other dogs in close proximity.

I hope that in a few weeks time Jess will be a lot more settled and feel safer that she wont be going anywhere else. I am due to take her back to the kennels this Saturday for her microchip to be fitted.

That's all for now folks !!!