Encounters

Riva and Karma had their first face-to-face meeting today and everything went great :-). I saw a change in Karma's attitude towards the puppy yesterday evening, she went to check out the puppy in the x-pen and her whole appearance said "I guess you are not quite as disgusting as I first thought". I'm so relieved, she is the kind of dog that first encounters are very important with other dogs. If the first meeting goes well she usually is fine with other dogs later but if it goes badly...

Riva also had his first search training session today. Our search training group has quite a few puppies and other beginner dogs right now and so we had beginners training today. There were Riva 10 weeks, lapponian herder Tanhu 13 weeks, smooth collie Omppu 10 months and miniature snautzer Peppi 6 years. We did basic socialization and greeting people nicely (no jumping etc.), not actual search training yet.