Gardening

I finally got started with cleaning the yard, the lawn was so overgrown that you could not describe it as "grass", it was hay. Its a wonder we don't have any ticks, they love overgrown grass like that. I first put Riva in the puppy pen to watch me mowing and after a while I put the big dogs inside and let him out to check out the mower. Its a sad old thing, its electric so you have to drag an extension cord with you and its designed for much smaller yards. The good thing about is that it doesn't make all that much noise. First I pushed it slowly and if Riva tried to come too close or barked just stopped and waited untill he moved a bit further. After he lost intrest I turned it on and started mowing. He followed me around for a little while from a distance and if he tried to come too close I stopped. After a while he came to the conclusion that this was a really boring thing and went to amuse himself otherwise. Hopefully he will learn to leave the mower alone like the bigger dogs.

I made a food square for him again, he is working very calmly and quite intensely. The driveway to my mom's neighbours was right next to us but when a car stopped there and people came out he just looked up and and went right back to sniffing food.