The holiday breakfast ritual
We seem to have developed a new routine to our mornings here, best told in pictures…….
Preparation…
Supervision……
Attention……
Decision, decision…..
…..and Twinkle gets the first taste being the best sitter in the world these days when food’s about, clever girl Twinkle….
…… but we soon forget the sitting and it’s a calm, free-for-all as everyone gets their share…
We’ve never been particularly fussed about training Twinkle and Susie-Belle to sit for food, seeing as they spent years receiving the bare minimum to keep them alive and fertile, it seems mean to make them work for anything at all. But, this time last year, we realised that Twinkle is a bright dog and highly attentive and it helped to channel some of her nervous energy away from her anxieties if we engaged her brain. So we taught her to sit and now she is a darling, choosing to do it and appearing content when we acknowledge her doing it, so we play along and we’re all happy in the game together. As ever, what is such a small routine behaviour for “normal” dogs, is a major marker of Twinkle’s improving state of being and worthy of celebration.
