12 Weeks Old

12 weeks

Well Xena has past her 12 week milestone. She has had her last immunisation and nasal spray for another year, she's been weighed (13kg) and wormed.

We took her back to the vet clinic she was born at as her mum had a cesarean. They were very happy to see her again and there was much buzzing and playing with her by staff members cooing about how they'd been there as she had been born. It was kind of cute.

My partner and his dad were down from the mine and spent a lot of time playing with Xena. I threw my back out at puppy classes having to lift her up and down on my lap, whenever the teacher didn't want the dogs hyped up on the floor, and needed the break.

Gav has really enjoyed spending time with the puppy while down from the mines. For all his hard words about training, he hasn't been hard at all. He has a more domineering tone though and Xena doesn't have any problem doing what he tells her to do. He doesn't even use treats. Gav just whistles 'whooo whiii' for come, 'whi' for sit etc and I'll be damned but that dog must have been a sheep dog in its previous life cuz she gets it!

After having no back pain for two days I felt ready to get up and about. Now Xena's all immunised she is ready to take out for walks.

Boy, what an issue we had. She pulled the entire way. I stopped every couple of steps to pull her up. When I stopped she would soon heel but the moment I took a step she pulled. I felt like I carried her around the block cuz no matter how much lead I gave her (or didn't give her) she pulled on it. That and the occasional exuberant launching her full body up at me and leaping ahead of me.... means my back is now messed up again.

I called my partner whose back in the mines, and sulked and moaned in agony.

Now, I have being taking Xena to positive reinforcement puppy training classes and she begins Obedience 1 classes this week and I do want her to go on to obedience 2 and pass her good citizen certificate so I will bare with it.

The trainer suggested to me to get Xena into agility classes as she had a lot of fun at the last puppy class going through tunnels, jumping obstacles etc... the agility club is over an hour drive from me. I would have loved it though.

Right now I'd love it more if I could get her to walk nicely.

Speaking of, we passed 2 other dogs on our little walk and they both barked like lunatics. I was hoping to meet some nice friendly dogs so we could continue socialisation. But it wasn't to be.

One was a small yappy fluffy dog and Xena got all stiff and tail up over it, probably thought it was a cat, but I distracted her and we moved on. The other was a medium sized black Alsatian which Xena decided to quickly trot away from dragging me with her.


Anyways... I'm going to take some aspirin so I can hopefully sleep through my back ache.