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01/11/06 - 25/11/06
bulbs. I thought that the adult dogs would be interested by the bulbs, I had to put stones above so no one could take them. But I've been
surprised to see Brinskhi climbing inside such a high flowerpot, I thought it was too high for the pups, but Brinskhi wanted so much to
reach the earth that I'd just put inside the flowerpot that he succeeded to climb in. I took him out so I could plant, but he climbed into the
flowerpot again, and I understood that I'd have better to give up. Brinskhi stayed inside "his" flowerpot all the time I was outside with them,
he was the "sideshow" ! All the adults went to him, but his siblings too, the siblings tried in vain to do the same, and I wondered whether
they were a bit jealous ... When I wanted to come home, I took Brinskhi out of the flowerpot, I planted quickly and put immediately big
enough stones, then Brinskhi gave up the flowerpot. Back home, they had to go over the big carrier box to reach the dining-room, it was too
high for them so I had put a little bucket (that I had turned over) in the kitchen, and the little red bench in the dining-room. Brevillenne went
over all that immediately, then Brinskhi, Borkye and Bocquefeuille followed her, but I had to show to Brehael what he had to do, first I put
him on the top of the bucket, and then on the top of the carrier box. From the carrier box, some pups came down by the little bench, some
others jumped directly on the ground - jumped, I would rather say : threw themselves. In the end of the afternoon, I put the same obstacle,
because Brehael had shown difficulties, he came over like the others. Brevillenne, always the first to go up, seemed to like staying above
the ground !
room till I opened their carrier box door : then they were busy to discover the room. They liked to be in the arms of an assistant like in mine. I
left them to be anaesthetized (for tattooing), then I came back at noon to drive them all home. In the evening, I made a small "corridor" in
zigzags with the radiator, the cardboard box and several bottles packs, but they tried and succeeded to come over the box and the bottles.
but finally they went through the corridor as I wanted. But then they succeeded to come over the cardboard box. I worked to build a kind of
small dais with pieces of wood, they played a lot on it, they were "between the screw and the screwdriver".
course they scratched their neck. Then I put a lead to each collar, they tried immediately to nibble each lead that they found, and I opened
the door between the yard and the garden "for a walk". I had tied up their mother in the garden, expecting that they would want to go to her,
and they did. Then we went under the trees, near the fence, they seemed to be glad to discover - they were often in the yard, and only
sometimes in the garden. In the end of the afternoon, I put again the pedals between the kitchen and the dining-room. The rocking
movement didn't disturb them at all. While I was in the kitchen, Brevillenne succeeded to push the plank, from the dining-room, she made
so an opening and a small corridor (between the wall and the plank), and she came through.
walk, while the others go easily ahead. In the evening, I put a broad bucket between the kitchen and the dining-room ; they threw
themselves at it, and so made it rock, I put a 20-kilo weight inside the bucket which didn't move anymore. Then all the pups went in and out
of the bucket to come from one room to another. In the kitchen, Bocquefeuille came between and behind the fridge and the cooker several
times.
to stop the walks on a lead in the garden. In the end of the afternoon, I put the trolley in the doorway between the kitchen and the
dining-room, but I made it move, roll quickly enough ; the first pups didn't mind at all, they seemed not to notice that the trolley was moving,
while the 2 last pups (2 males) hesitated a bit.
was precariously balanced. When the pups were at one end, this end moved down while the other end lifted up. When the pups moved on
the plank, it was moving up and down. At a moment, I went on the plank, while several pups were on it too, and with my feet, I made
stronger and quicker rocking movements. The pups didn't mind at all the precariously balance. When I made the plank move so fast that
they had difficulties to walk farther, they simply and quietly waited that the movement stopped. They seemed to like that, because they
returned several times just to be on it. If the end of the plank was up when they arrived at it, they jumped on it.
cardboard boxes between the kitchen and the dining-room, it was more than easy ! In the end of the afternoon, I made a small corridor with
2 radiators, that wasn't difficult at all too.
go up, I thought they had grown enough to succeed. Brinskhi was the first to threw himself at it and so he succeeded to arrive at the top.
Then Borkye and Bocquefeuille did the same, Brehael and Brevillenne did a little later.
hesitation. Then one pup came in and out the first and the second boxes, the others imitated him, and then they seemed to like it and to
play with the boxes. The following day (13/11) I did the same, but I turned over one of the boxes.
precariously balanced. I wondered if I would have to put food to make them go on it, but how I was wrong ! The fence was just put on the
stone and immediately all the pups went over it, playing with the precarious balance. I understood that in fact they really liked new things to
discover - or new problems to solve. Brinskhi and (a little less) Brehael didn't left the fence, they liked it very much.
Andeo is the chief of the A-s, so he generally walks at first, and I took him to guide the pups. Andeo worked wonders ! The pups quickly lost
their apprehension to follow him. The tails were quickly up again too (but not always). Then we go near the shop entrance, so they could
meet people and trolleys. Andeo showed so much self-confidence to them that they imitated him and they were quickly curious. When we
came back to my car, a few minutes later, they didn't want to come back to their carrier box anymore ... The following day (16/11), I stayed in
the garden a long time with them, I had work to do. I laid down a high box, so it became like a tunnel, they liked to go in and out of it.
pile. Borkye immediately went over the stones pile to walk on the fence and reach the bench. Brinskhi tried to climb directly on the bench to
join his brother, but he didn't succeed, and so he went to the stone pile and find the way. Bocquefeuille did the same too and then stayed
on the bench with Arslan. Brevillenne and Brehael came later. Brinskhi stayed a long time on the fence, nibbling it. Then all the pups came
to their father on the steps. The following day (18/11), I put nearly the same thing, just the fence were no more horizontally but it was put
between the ground and the bench. All the pups went up without any hesitation.
perpendicular to the bench, so that was really more difficult. The pups had a rough time of it ! First, Brinskhi and Bocquefeuille refused to
renounced till they had reached the bench - where I was sitting, and then they could go near me or on my knees. Then Brevillenne
succeeded too. Borkye tried, had rough time too, he came back and jumped at about 3/4 of the fence height, then it was easier to reach the
bench, he had only 20 - 30 cm on the fence ! Brehael didn't try. I put him on the beginning of the fence, he found that he couldn't succeed
and gave up. On the fence, the pups legs were often between the logs, in the "holes". They moved at random, trying in any direction, when
they tried right or left they succeeded to go a little farther. It has been really difficult, but the pups (excepted Brehael) really seemed to enjoy
to overcome ! That has been difficult, so I was thinking that I would put the same the following day, hoping that they would have less
difficulties. But on the 20/11/06, the rain made me decide not to do. I put an obstacle between the dining-room and the kitchen : they had to
pass through a tyre, they did without any difficulty.
course Brehael too, didn't even try, and if I put them on the beginning of the fence, they renounced quickly ... I thought that the experience
had been rather bad for them ... Bocquefeuille understood how to solve the problem : she climbed up slantwise and reached quickly the
bench. Brinskhi tried first to come up by some kind of jumps, he succeeded, but when (after he had jumped down from the bench) he
wanted to come up the second time, he went slantwise too. Then, I put the fence in the other direction, like a ladder, and I put the 3 other
pups on it, so they had a good experience - they climbed easily. The following day, I put the fence like on the 17/11, like it was in the
beginning, it was very easy, but I was afraid that some pups had kept a bad experience, so I wanted to "rub out" the bad experience by a
good one, and all the pups enjoyed again to go on the fence.
enjoyed so much that I gave him such a mission, that I took him again to guide the pups. And all the pups walked behind him as if they had
always done that. The pups didn't trust very much some people and their trolleys, near the shop entrance. The following day (24/11), it was
still raining a lot, I put a muddle of different things and I opened the door of the veranda, but some pups found that they could go beside that
all ! In the evening, I threw a ball, all the pups ran after it, so I continued to make them play with the ball during a few minutes.
just Brevillenne tried first to come between the pieces of wood. The doors of my car were still open, they tried to climbed into it as soon as I
opened the door of my barn, they seemed to like very much my car ... They played a lot with all the things they could find in the barn.
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