Hide and Seek, Bathtime and Tattletails

Bathtime for Belle

A clean Belle Pup

Bonnie’s Turn

A clean Bonnie Pup

The other evening while working on the recall command we played hide and seek in the house with the pups. One of us holds the pups and the other goes, hides then calls them. When it was Greg’s turn to hide I entertained Bonnie in the kitchen so she wouldn’t follow him. When he called her, she looked at me as if to say “Oh,that’s me! Gotta go!” and took off at a mad dash to find her Greg.
When it was my turn to hide and Belle’s turn to seek, she was so excited to find me that she took off looking for me before I called her. She was more patient but just as excited to find me the next 2 times 🙂 It was satisfying to note that both Bonnie and Belle came running as fast as they could to find us when we called. Although we hid in various places the trickyiest was when I hid behind the chair, the challenge wasn’t where I was but how to get to me. Both pups figured it out in their own way and gave me lots and lots of kisses to show me how happy they were to get to me!

Later that night the pups had their first bath, they previously have had showers. Belle went first and wasn’t too sure she like it. Bonnie kept getting in the way and was all about telling Belle there was nothing to it until it was her turn when she didn’t think she liked it either. Belle the loving sister that she is nosed her as if to say ” nothing to it huh!” The pups, floor and Greg were all very very wet by the time bath time was over but we had two clean puppies.

Yesterday morning Bonnie snatched a magazine, an envelope and a pen I dutifully told her to “give” each time and she did. A little while later while drying my hair I looked down at my feet and discovered Bonnie sitting as close to me as she could get. Considering that the girls don’t like the sound of the hairdryer I found this strange. I looked to see what she was looking at and discovered Belle on the couch happily playing with a dish towel that she had snatched! Clearly Bonnie was tattling on her sister!

Last night when Greg told the pups it was bedtime, Belle the good girl that she is ran to her crate and laid down. Bonnie on the other hand jumped up on the couch and pressed herself as close to the cushions as she could in an effort to become invisible. When she realized that Greg could still see her she closed her eyes. Guess she figured if she couldn’t see him he couldn’t see her. Silly pup!

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