Olive has become a lady

Over Chrsitmas Olive has become a lady, she is in her first season.

It's not much fun being in season, although she isn't coping too badly so far. Have been taking her out early in the middle of the woods where no one is around, and then doing training with her in the afternoon. We managed to find a new route on our walking this morning which is great, always exciting when you find a new walk you haven't done before!

Olive definitely seems more lethargic, I think she is just worn out from all the cleaning she is having to do at the moment - cleaning of herself, cleaning of her bedding, cleaning of her pants, cleaning of the floor. She is a busy little girl.

We have a show on the 22nd January so we have been doing a little bit of 'standing' practice. Although I really need to do lots more ringcraft with her. She is looking much more mature now in her body and head.

I have been doing training with her in an enclosed court yard area where there isn't any other dogs, which has worked out quite well so far as the training wears her out nicely for the rest of the day. She got 2 new dummies for Christmas, a pink and purple one off her grandparents. You can never have too many dummies!!

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