Day 2 - and a name change

We'd already decided that Pup wasn't really a suitable name and we wanted to give him a name he could move on with and would respond to. After running through loads and loads of names we settled on Jet and we're now trying to get him to understand to come when called. This is hard work and at the moment the only thing he tends to come us with is 'Oy' Particuarly embarassing when we're out walking!

We didn't have any toilet problems overnight so I'm quite confident that he's been house trained well, although we did have another pee incident when I got up, through sheer excitement, and another when we had visitors.

Today we've been playing with a pull toy. He's very gentle and hasn't nipped at all, even when we've forcibly removed his toys and whilst playing in general. He's very good at sharing but very poor at the 'drop' command.

We've also been on a bigger walk where we gave him the opportunity to run off the lead fetching a ball. This isn't something I'll be trying unless we're in a really quiet location and I have someone with me as he is so enthusiastic about everything that he doesn't notice (or maybe ignores me) when called. He gets very excited on the lead when he sees anything such as pigeons or litter blowing in front of him and will pull a lot. He seemed OK when he saw another dog on a lead but we've only seen one so I can't really say yet whether he is good with other dogs.

Finally we managed to tire him out....