“Happy has learned that when I say goodbye I am finishing a call and he now runs from wherever he is to jump up as if to say 'it's my time now!'. I do loads of calls a day as part of my work and if I don't want him to launch himself at me, I have to try and avoid the word 'goodbye' grin”
We had a dog when I was a teenager who got wildly excited at the eastenders doofs - because that’s when my mum walked him, it was hilarious when we had visitors, lol.
Because he was in rescues till 5 months, I’m getting a lot of tiny puppy behaviour in a big puppy body - so settling during the zooms is a work in progress, unfortunately it’s usually me running them for work... with clients, so I can’t just disappear off every 5 minutes to run interference and he’s totally taking advantage of that, lol... I’ve almost cracked it by making sure he’s just tired enough to go for a sleep after a kong, but not so tired he gets stupid and bratty. Thought I’d try a box as a change, huge mistake, rofl.
Re food - I prefer dry, I really only mix wet food in with fosters who won’t eat otherwise, I do give wet food, but in kongs or on lickimats and stuff like that.
I use their actual food for training wherever I can and that’s much easier to manage with dry.
But as long as it’s half decent food, they’re eating it happily and they’re doing well on it, I wouldn’t stress tbh.
Amounts, I find packaging always suggests too much for adult dogs, so I’d be a bit wary about their suggested huge increases, I just use that as a rough base and just keep an eye on their appetite and body condition and gauge it by that.
Bearing in mind that some dogs will tell you they’ve never been fed in their lives even though it’s being 20 seconds since they last ate, rofl