The pets thread aka my house smells of cat/dog/other piss

Such a beautiful kitty though. Even if she knows it Vortex 😁😍

We've only had her a few months after the last one died, but she's settled in all too well. We've had two black mogs over the years.

Would recommend, but be warned:

1. They are silky soft, but know they are the shit. Black fur makes carpets look dirty, so more hoovering required. This is a bad thing. Need wood flooring!

2. Both were very good at hunting, so giblet detail is required too often( no one else in our house will do this)

3. At night, it's freaky to suddenly realise 2 yellow eyes are peering at you in the dark.

And they want in.

I suspect things are going too well. So something is going to go awry, but last night she went in to her cage, fell asleep without a single peep. I went through at the back of two to take her for a pee and she was still sleeping. Debated on waking her up, read too many conflicting things and thought I'd wake her anyway just in case. She didn't do anything so went back to her cage, one small single whine and that was her til 6 when I went through to find her awake but just sitting patiently ready to come out!

Just trying not to get too hopeful! But yeah, really pleased with how well she seems to be adapting to everything.

She might well be smart, of course. Some dogs are very intelligent and learn things really easily. She's still very young, too, of course.

But as Danno said, keep it up as well. If you stop now thinking she's done, you'll be in for a shock, especially when she reaches adolescence.

Oooh yeah no complacency, because I’m expecting things to unravel! She’s doing well with the sit training too as well actually.

Just need to work out what to do with her trying to chew my face off in excitement because I find it so funny, but she probably shouldn’t be doing that.

Also, today as I sit in work I realise I stink of dog.

I've been relentless with Dudley's recall training as his recall was non existent (terrier natch), but I'm slowly getting to the point with him where it's the other dogs around him who now seem out of control.

On a good day.



But it is a relief now when he comes running back at full speed when I blow the whistle or just call his name.

About 2 months ago I started it more rigorously, after lots of failure because I wasn't doing it correctly and jumped a few steps, but I could have started earlier. It's all a learning experience and there's so much other stuff to focus on.

I ended up reading Total Recall which really helped, lots of good advice and stages. Plus a training lead really sped things along, but now it's so wet I'd be reluctant to use it as he's so small.

You can start recall training in the house, wunty. Then the garden, before she's even ready to go outside once she's vaccinated. Same with lead training.

Make sure she knows her name, get some trigger words, get her used to being rewarded for coming to you. It's good to set some groundwork.

It'll get harder again once she is outside because there's loads more distractions... but it'll still be easier if she already has an idea of what's expected of her.

Another night where she was as good as gold \o/. Not a single peep from her. She also had a great time out in the garden first thing, doing the toilet and running about like a nutter.

Spent another small fortune on her in the pet shop last night. Got her a better grooming set and some bath shampoo, as we're going to try bath-time tonight. That'll be interesting...

I've turned into one of these sad bastards fawning over a dog and boring every one with pictures, and I don't even care.

Have you got a clicker, Wunty? (The dog-training gadget - not one of the zombies from The Last of Us.)

They seem to be pretty useful, in my experience.

It sounds as though you're doing a great job - and so is Penny, for that matter - so keep it up!