Puppy days

We met Tanhu, the lapponian herder puppy, and Päivikki, her owner, again today. The puppies played together and also got good practice in distractions, there were a lot more people in the park today. I took some pictures but the digital camera was way too slow for getting good pictures of puppies playing.
 
I introduced the target stick to Riva this weekend. His attention span is still quite short, two sessions with five attempts each is enough training for him at one time. After all, he's not quite three months old so that is plenty. He did get the idea of target stick quickly and started to follow it.
 
Riva did quite good the two days last week when I went back to work but I could see some effect of the long days in him. In the evenings he was wilder and more restless and settling after activities took more time. My father is coming to do some renovations next week so Riva won't have to spend the days alone the whole week.