New skills

It has been so long since my last entry!
A lot of things has happened in the meantime.. Lily learned a few extra tricks. She turned one! And last night, she actually played fetch for the first time!
We have spend so many times trying to teach her, but she showed no interest. Just lying down and watch us throw and retrieve the toy ourselves. If we played with Truffles, she would run to him and bite him on the but or neck, but ignored the toy.
When trying to play tug, she would pull her nose up at the silliness of it all.

Then last night after we practiced some tricks and were elated that she started to do "say your prayers", the treats were done and Truffles went in search for something else to do. He went to our bookshelf where I incidentally keep a box with inside toys and sniffed at it. I got the message and took out a rope with a tennis ball attached to it. I threw it and out of the blue, Lily did not go after Truffles, but after the toy! She got hold of the one end and brought it to me with Truffles. We tried this a couple of times and then I held Truffles back to see if she would go it alone. Not only did she go for the toy, but she brought it back to almost at my feet. - It was just out of reach.
We were elated. We grabbed the camera and I gave it to my son to record. Sadly we found out afterwards that he did not know that he didn't press the record button hard enough and after some stellar "fetching" the battery went dead! I was so disappointed, as Hubby wasn't home and we wanted to show him when he came back home after work.  But, by the time he got home, they were fed and they were sleepy. Still, we got one fetch from her later, after they both got their second breath being cuddled by 'daddy', however, it was very half hearted.

So today we tried again. It was a miserable failure as Lily has no idea what the fuss is all about. Truffles would run after the ball all day if your arm could hold it, but Lily looses interest and lies down and doesn't even look at you.

So, I'm going to put up some footage of our morning tryout, with the one time Lily went for a fetch successfully. We are still elated! :)

Until next time, remember: Love your doggies!