hatwoman

[SlubberdeVelcro]

Not appropriate to say on t'other thread but I just wanted to say how deeply impressed and hugely amused I was to hear that you had socialised your puppy at a a civil war re-enactment.

You win the prize of most conscientious puppy socialiser.

Brilliant.

Musket fire - check
Mortar Fire - check
Calmness in vicinity of Pike men - check

bet you have no problems on Nov 5th

You probably got people in funny hats and men with beards checked off multiple times as well.

:o

PMSL

:o

I thought I'd done well socialising my dogs with a pet ferret and preventing them from chasing the rabbits, deer and pheasants which share our walks but Hatwoman really is impressive!

i thought i had done well on socialising too but never thought of civil war re-enactment!

btw wish OP had come back

I'm rather glad she didn't, chick.

I might have stopped being polite and going gently on her...

haha

i tried hard to be patient but was depressingly familiar

I thought I'd done a good job with socialising too but this was a SUPREME effort from hatwoman.

You just never know when a Roundhead might suddenly appear at the door scaring the bejeesus out of your dog.

Well i don't know what thread you are talking about but my puppy was socialised in a building site renovation project! We had been on breeders waiting list for 18months and the litter became available when we 3 months into a 6 month renovation, unfortunate but it was ok and pupp got to see lots of people and sounds!

He isstill petrified of the hoover though!

I understand how feeble that sounds compared to hatwomens re-enactment but hey ho .

morethanyoubargainfor we did socialisation in a building site renovation project too! Was excellent for loud banging noises, wheelbarrows, men in hats and and course sweary language

Not so good for crate training though, i would pop out to shop and put pup in crate to come back 10 minutes later to find pup covered in dust playing ball with the builders . apparently they couldn't watch him in the 'cage'.

OMG I think we may have had the same builders! The same would happen here too, in fact I suspect my dog may have developed a pavlovian response to cigarette smoke, I'm sure when she smells it now she starts salivating as she has linked it to receiving covert hob nobs and sandwich crusts.

OMG i thin you might be right! apart from i am sure ours snuck in the odd dog biscuit as well!