Saturday, 7 April 2007

First encounter with young children

Having the day off yesterday due to Good Friday, I took little Jesse to the park again. It was deserted to start off with, though we mananged to watch some football game from the distance.

Eventually, two young girls came over and asked whether they could say hello to Jesse. I agreed of course as it was an ideal opportunity for Jesse to have a good experience with children. Luckily, they were very sensible kids and did exactely as I told them. Jesse first backed away from them as he was worried. I gave the children some treats to give to Jesse... he took them and got braver by the minute. Eventually he went up to the children to sniff them and they were able to stroke him.
After a good few minutes, we started walking back. Just before we left the park, the children came up to us again and this time Jesse went straight up to them with a wagging tail... Success!

We also met a couple of dogs, which was good for Jesse. One of them was a bulldog, which Jesse wasn't too comfortable with. I think it is their squashed faces that worry him... Hopefully we will meet a few more squashy faced breeds for him to get to know.

Here are some pictures taken today in the park:



Aren't I beautiful


Jesse loves clicker training and pinches the clicker at every opportunity...

Some nice portraits here





And last but not least, some action shots



And I loooooooooove this one!

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