Update.

I thought  it was time I did  an update on "puppy training", or perhaps it should be called "granny training"!

Here is Midnight after a hard day 

walking the streets of Glen Eira!!

It's a tough life isn't it?

Notice how big he is getting, 

when he climbs on the bed with me, he takes up more than half of it.

 Newest trick is to lie the length of the bed with his head on the pillow and then very quietly push his feet against the rails, next thing I know, I am squashed against the rails and he is in the middle of the bed.

Here we are out and about in our new harness,

it makes such a difference. He is now attached to my chair by a D ring on the side, no more twisted harness.

I am now looking for sheep skin seat belt covers and they seem to have disappeared from the market.

We are now walking from 2-4 k per day, 

sometimes he is brilliant and we have a great walk, 

other days nothing seems to go right.

Now we have started a daily diary, 

this will be very important when it comes time to try and get him registered.

We have learned one very important skill,

I can now clip his lead onto his collar and he knows that he must walk behind me from the house, 

through the veranda gate, down the path 

and through the very narrow front gate.

He then sits next to the chair 

so I can clip on his wheel chair lead.

I am amazed how quickly he has learned this difficult maneuver,

the path is very narrow.

He also sits beautifully,

reminds me of when I was at school and the teacher would say the person sitting up the straightest 

could go outside first. 

He pushes his little chest out just like the boys did!

We also have sort of mastered "stop",

  "Midnight walk on" and "up the hill".

Our biggest problem at present is dogs!

we don't meet enough of them, so when we do

he goes crazy and doesnot concentrate at all.

Chris, our trainer, says he must go to the dog park,

not with me, because he is too strong for my arm, 

so it will be Jessika walking him, 

and me watching.

Sometimes I get very frustrated,

I am finding it is so much harder 

to do things in my chair -- I cannot reach far, turn quickly,

or even get down on the ground and give him a cuddle'

when he has done something really clever. 

I guess we are both learning.

I think I have written enough for now, 

my boy is sleeping next to my chair waiting for a walk.

I wonder how we will go tonight?

Until next time --- hug a puppy!!