11 Weeks Old - Puppy Classes and Worming Tablets

Yet another week has flown by with Charlies family and its been a active one too! Its also been a little more stressful as Charlie is finding his feet and testing his limits. Its also hard to keep a puppy occupied when it pouring with rain outside.

But possibly the big event over the last few weeks has been Puppy Playschool. This is two evenings that are run by our Vets. They are arranged for puppies who are not yet allowed out onto the pavements and in the parks. This allowed them to meet and great other puppies and take part in early socialising.

Charlie,who is from a litter of nine playful puppies, took an interest from the start. Sizing up the other puppies while a 12 week old German Shephard twice his size hid under a seat. It was not long before he was trying to play and join in. Unfortunately Charlie had other ideas than playing with a little collie girl - a little rude for a first date!

Over both the nights, a week apart, Charlie and his fellow puppies all got more confident and played nice. However I personally feel that the evening were more for the owners than the puppies. This was because there was lots of talk about what to do and what tips & tricks to use. I don't honestly think he got as much out of it as he could have but its a good introduction!

So the other fun event was giving him his worming tablet. Now the packet says 'treat flavoured bone shaped worming tablet'. OK so we decided we would slip in the tablet as part of his treat training. So a few 'sits' and 'downs' on normal treats and then we handed him the worming tablet. Well lets say we did not fool Charlie! He spat it straight out and looked at it in horror! We did try to encourage him and he did try a few more times to get him to eat it, but it was no good. I ended up having to do the famous 'pop it in the back of the mouth and hold his head up' trick till he crunched it down.

Anyway, I should also say sorry for not posting this sooner, I promise to get the next one ready for Wednesday when its 'Walkies' time!

PS: One short note on his feeding. I said a week or so ago that we were adding other food to his main feed to keep him interested in eating. Well we have now stopped that and he is eating fine on his main food!

PPS: We got a much larger crate now for him which he can stretch out in. Sleeping wise he has been very good from day one, sleeping through with no mess or noise! :o)