The Cameras: First kibble meal
At 22 days old The Cameras get a taste of some moist kibble. Starting to get the hang of their robot walks these little guys will be running around in no time!! Here are three short videos of the kids eating on their first day having kibble.
Oh boy, oh boy….and oh boy and oh boy and oh boy….yes 5 boys!!
Well last night was certainly an interesting one…. it was 8pm and I was just getting into bed and ready to watch some of my favorite tv shows with the dogs…. Pixel was outside and scratching at the door to come in…. so I let her in and she went to the whelping box for 5 minutes… dug around and then came into the bedroom and jumped on my stomach all hunched over with a puppy making his way into the world!!! I was totally unprepared figuring Day 58 with a young first time mother. I don’t know how but I shot out of bed and held her keep that exact position bring her into the whelping room adjacent to the bedroom. I set her down in there and she proceeded to have the first pup!! It’s a boy!! After the first pup was out Pixel’s instinctive switch got turned on and she was an old pro… every 30 minutes she had a puppy until she was done. And yes…. boy after boy after boy…. five times over!!!! All boys!!! Here are a few photos for your viewing. Here are Pixel’s 5 sons. The litter theme is cameras.
Widget and Pixel basic whoa, recall, heel training
I have been working with Pixel and Widget for the past two weeks with basic whoa, recall and heel work. The each have had six— five minute lessons on this material. This is what I love about llewellins. They almost always handle easy, learn quickly and allow me to be a fun loving guy 99% of the time. I wish I could say that about all breeds and yield these results in just 30 minutes total spread out over two weeks. The day of this video was taken when they were 5.5 months old. Can’t wait to get back to bird training in another 4-8 weeks with some command control in place. It should be a blast!! I like to expose my pups to birds around 4 months old several times to give them a taste and to together them into it. During this introduction I usually use pigeons in launchers and just go out with no rules a few times to see what happens and have a bit of bird fun. After that somewheres around five months of age I’ll start doing some basic commands such as whoa, recall and heel work. Then we consistently do bird work starting around 8 months old give or take. By that time my command control has had nothing to do with birds or restraint so I find the bird training process much easier and more pleasant, especially with this marvelous breed.