Summer has now been living with us a couple of months. Its hard to remember life pre dog! We are now so used to a different way of life with her. It can still be frustrating at times, particularly if she is misbehaving or training is not going well. Its best to walk away and come back to it later. We must be doing OK though because she passed her Kennel club Puppy Foundation Assessment yesterday. We'll still keep going to classes though as there is always more to learn. Summer loves looking in the cupboards when I open them and managed to take a whole head of garlic. She was very reluctant to give it up even though she probably hated the taste. She loves chewing on a really hard piece of wood or a bone which we get from the local butcher. We ar now trying to work out how we can go away for the weekend. Will those friends who offered still be willing to have her!

Summer has taken a week to get onto Greenwich Mean Time! She has been waking us up at 6am with her barking. She is growing rapidly and will soon need a bigger bed. She loves stretching out by the fire. I spoke to a friend who gets her new puppy soon. It is very hard to make someone understand what a complete upheaval it is - however much you tell them you know it will be a shock to the whole household when it arrives! We were back at the puppy class yesterday. Summer wasn't that well behaved and was hoovering up anything she could find. We realised afterwards that maybe we should have given her an early lunch! Otherwise she is doing well on the training most of the time. Its just important for us to keep doing it. She also only has accidents in the house if we forget to take her out regularly. She hasn't learnt how to tell us when she wants to go out. Fireworks caused lots of barking but our trainer said not to reassure her as she will then think it is something to be frightened of - just play with or ignore her. One day we took her across the fields instead of a walk along the road and Summer was obviously enjoying all the smells in every direction. Not good for getting her to walk to heel!