Today Boyo and I have been apart for the first time since I picked him up. Or yes, It depends on whether you count on the few times when a friend was standing outside Ica with Boyo when I ran in and picked up a package or so. But today was the first time I really had a dog sitter.
I was going to leave and shop a little, and asked Lilo's mother if she would like to hang out with Boyo for a while today. It went really well, Lilo's mother informed me about, so happy in the hågen we trudged off to meet them outside.
It is very lots of mischief when Lilo and Boyo meet. Not all the time, but just like that when we meet. When I go with them, they are not allowed to fool around, because the whole idea is that we should go. Lilo's mother has not joined both before, and as I understood it, it was not entirely easy. When I picked Boyo up, she had called her daughter in as backup, and it would certainly have gone better then.
Men Boyo, in other words. What a mother pig he is. Ella was also a really motherly dog (actually a thousand times worse, at least as a puppy), and although not necessarily flattering, isn't that strange. I spend time with my animals 24 hours a day. They are rarely more than a few meters away from me. They always have access to me.
So it's clear that it becomes difficult when someone else takes the reins and I go my own way.
Lilos matte offered to help me teach Boyo that it's ok for someone else to hold the leash and for mom to walk away. Because he was really cranky and hysterical. I heard him a good distance away as I left. Personally, I have a bit of a hard time holding back laughter, because it undeniably sounds quite ridiculous with a German shepherd's whistle. I'm a bit shitty that way, I have to admit that. 😀
Men; already in tomorrow we will practice this again. I want to go into town and see if I can find a pair of clogs, and then it's a great idea to drop Boyo off at Lilo and her mother's for a while.
By the way, must I tackle this with solitude training by Boyo. I go home during the day, and now in Corona times it is better to stay at home than to move out in society. So I have extremely few reasons to go out without a dog. But I'll start sooner or later (rather before) so that he learns that it is ok to be alone at home for a while. It probably won't be very often that he needs to be alone – but he needs to be ok with it.
I'm looking forward against the fact that Mozart will hopefully be declared healthy from his giardia soon – for his and his family's sake above all, but also because I hope we can let the boys play a little, but above all teach them to socialize without playing. Also, I hope we can walk each other's dogs (Together, in other words). The more opportunities Boyo has to join someone else, the better. I would like to see him become a little less motherly than Ella, who tore and pulled like mad to get to me if I was more than a leash length away from her (although she could also tear the other way when she saw someone we knew, when I held the leash).
Although Boyo is a bit ridiculous and motherly, I still have to say that he is actually a very nice dog. I think those who have met him would agree. He's a bit jumpy, which I don't really like. We have to deal with it, because although it may be cute now, so it's not quite as cute when he's fully grown and more than twice as big and heavy as he is now.
It really should will be incredibly fun to see how he will look and be as an adult dog. He is an incredibly good and cozy dog even now that I kind of wonder where the hell it will end. If he ends up as a lap dog, it will be heavy. 😀