19/07/2025
🥰More good news from one of our former guests, now happily living his best life in his new home:
Hi there - Just a quick message to let you know how Gilly ( formerly Gruff ) is doing.
He is a different dog to the one you met. We do little bits of training each day, but only a few minute sessions. He is now in a position I am happy with — meaning he is not looking to do anything that is a danger to himself (car chasing).
He interacts extremely well and very friendly with other dogs and people, while at the same time giving a good bark at dogs/people passing by the house when he is watching from the porch.
He is also now a swimmer (a fairly new development). We have often been to places with water from the start, but it has been just paddling. A couple of weeks back we had a good session at a lake and he took the swimming plunge. With this hot weather, our morning walk has been ok, but the middle walk has been off for a swimming trip, so he learned at a good time otherwise it would have probably been too hot for him to go out.
We have had an adventure to the vets when he got a bit of stick in his eye. It came out at home, but his eye was red for a while and I worried about him so a vet trip was made, he handled it in good spirits, no fear or any worries. Some eye drops for a week and it cleared up fine.
Anyway, I thought I would write and let you know how he is doing.
Steve
(I've included a picture of him making a splash).
