Breakthrough with Kai and Pups in the garden

Kai's stress pacing was distressing me , so I decided to try tieing his longline to a tree in my garden and seeing whether me not holding the lead would stop him being so stressed ..... and it did :D

Even though he enjoys his walks and doesnt mind in the slightest being on lead outside the garden it did bother him in the garden , well no more ... today he has just been relaxing in the sun and in the shade , playing with the other dogs and theres been zero stress pacing at all ... he's also happily been toileting out there too 

YAY :D

Heres a few pics of the Fantastic Four :) (I cant call them the three Amigo's anymore can I , lol)

Lets start at the beginning

Kai's settling in well ... He hates toileting on a lead so we've had a few accidents , but I expected that , perseverance & patience ... lots and lots of patience , hehehehe

He is playing tug with Teddy happily now which is great , Toffee isnt interested in playing with him at all though

But I was in hysterics before , earlier Kai wanted a toy Gypsy had , and given that Gypsy keeps air snapping and growling at him I was a bit worried as to what extreme she would go to when he tried getting it but decided to let the situation play out and see what happened

Gypsy growled , Kai play bowed , gave a wuffly bark then snatched it out of her mouth and ran off with it ... Gypsy just stood there looking around as if to say "Yeah I let him have it"

Looks like my bossy madam has some competition :D

Meet Kai my new dog

He came all the way from Bucharest in Romania courtesy of the bandofhope.romanianrescue .... (I dont know if you know about the situation with the Romanian government killing strays and dogs that are already in rescues over there , its heartbreaking)

He is about 18 months old and was found in a field along with his wife and their litter of pups ... thankfully all of them were legally got out of Romania and have found homes here in the UK , and lucky me got to adopt Kai :D

The poor love is rack thin , I can feel every bone in his spine and every rib , and thats after being fed lots by his fosterer this last week , so you can imagine just how hard its been for him over in Romania :(

He is super intelligent and very sweet and loving but a bit of a houdini , so he is staying on his longline , even in my garden , until I can trust his recall 100%

As for his intelligence within half an hour he worked out where the dog food bin was and how to get the lid off so I had to move that into my pantry , the little tinker 

Welcome to your new jail Kai , where every window and door is locked and any outside time is supervised while you are tethered to your new guard , lol

Heres a few piccies of my new baby .. YAY 

LOL , My dogs hate me now

So I was rooting through my wardrobe and drawers looking for something and came across something id bought years and years ago for halloween ... and me being me , well of course im uber evil and now my dogs hate me , well two of them do , the third doesnt give a darn as long as theres a biscuit attached to the deal :D

I used to love you

*sobs* im a boy dammit

So ... do I look pretty then Mum ?