Dexter - four months of age
The first day in its new home was very tiring for Dexter, but it found itself quite at home, and became friends quickly, especially with the dogs of my children.
Of course, it is lots of fun to track our little darling with the camera. But photos and videos do not reveal everything about Dexter.
First of all, it was amazing how quickly Dexter accepted its new home as its own. We live in a quite place close to the forest, need to cross not any roads, so we can give Dexter a lot of freedom. When we got back on the 1st night of a short walk and turned onto the footpath that leads to our house (100m), Dexter suddenly sprinted off, lay before our entrance and waited there for us.
Dexter is very docile. The command "Dexter, come here!" and "Dexter, seat!" followed it very well. In "Come here," one must occasionally help out a bit, so it sits down. Of course, the sound must be slightly sharper when other dogs are in the game, but it is not even two weeks with us.
Fetch is in its blood. However, one must not exaggerate, after three or four passes it still gets bored.
"Down!" or "Lie down!" or "Stop!" are commands it does not like. The leash is it not innate, but we train every time we encounter cyclists, more commonly due to its proximity to Holland:-)
All in all, it's fun to watch its progress.
It provides also a lot of nonsense, so there is little pictures of the walks. Since we are too busy watching, because Dexter is fast and constantly looking. Here it finds a stick, a piece of bark or grass (we have nothing against outside), but just as much as it collects stones, cherries and feces and we do not like that. The command "Ugh!" when it does not yet have the prohibited item in its mouth, it respects quite well. On "Off!" unfortunately, only sometimes leads to immediate success, usually you have to take it the stone out of its mouth.
On a leash it goes quite well with foot, without a leash works only partially. Retrieving succeeds already really good as the video below shows:
Dexter after 5 weeks
Dexter is now 5 months old and for 5 weeks with us. Until yesterday we thought Dexter would become housebroken. Then showed a puddle in the dining room that this was not so. However, I have interpreted its signals wrong. Pounce is usually Invitation to play. Here it was probably the call to walking and the consequence of the fact that I did not respond as desired, then, was the puddle. Normally, Dexter uses strange sounds (no barking, Junken or the like, rather a kind of speech trial) and we will respond immediately with nearly 100% success.
Impressions from the forest walk or whatever else you should know about puppies from Bergerhof:
Dexter is now six months old
Dexter is now six months old already and is thriving. Meanwhile, its is house trained with certainty except the times already described, there was no further.
Dexter obeys well so far. It is best to be on "Come here!". Walking by foot with and without a leash its doing well and it remains laying, but the pain threshold is still at about 50m and visual contact. To lay down it does not like, you would have to strongly insist on it. And not to jump on someone it is still difficult, but also here has been progress. Dexter has not yet destroyed much. A few houseplants have left leaves and a little Deco of my wife Dexter has redecorated.
The following video contains three things that are important to Dexter: Dexter is always looking for the water, it is constantly on the lookout for any piece of wood and it likes to animate the old lady Kiwi, even though it usually brings a dissipation.
Dexter is now seven months old
In an autumn forest walk around the pond Raky in Dalheim, Dexter makes its first swimming experience.
Dexter (Golden Retriever male), 9 months old
In so far failed winter there was little fun to take the camera with us on our walks. Now in January the weather became a little bit better. I was lucky: in this walk met Dexter, now 9 months old, on a 1 1/2 year old mastiff. Highly visible Dexter is getting sexual maturity.
