Rueben discovering a squirrel!
Today Rueben and I had some one on one time, his new brother Fynn went to his doggy play care group and had a ball with his friends there.
The day started early for me, I'm disabled and often fall asleep right before dawn and thus am used to getting up later. This morning I heard Rueben stirring at 7:30 AM and decided it was a good day to get up early and see what the day had in store for us.
He slept in his crate in our bedroom with the other dogs all through the night, what a good boy in this strange and new environment for him!
Rueben is very much food oriented which can be a good thing when training a dog. Our other Border Collie was very much NOT food oriented which made it a lot harder, but a squeaky ball does wonders ;-) I thought it would be a good idea to give Rueben his breakfast in a treat ball. It's shaped like an large egg and has holes on both ends, when the roll it around the kibble falls out and it keeps them busy for quite some time ;-).
He was very excited about the prospect of getting food, Rueben is a bit of a gobbler, he can inhale his food at lightning speed ;-) Giving him the ball that made him ate his kibble piece by piece was a good idea. He was very curious when I was filling the ball and showed him where the food went, than put it down on the floor and let him figure it out. It didn’t take him long to discover how it worked, every time he managed to get a morsel out of the ball he looked around to see if there was another dog coming around to get it but he was all alone and quickly got used to the idea it was all his. ;-)
The night before Fynn showed him that basically all chewies and eatable stuff in the house was his so that made Rueben a bit careful. ;-) Clever boy ;-)
I like this ball very much, it holds small and large pieces easily, it has rubber rigs all along the ball to make it roll nice on hardwood floors and will not drive you insane within 2 minutes because of the noise. Very important fact to know! ;-)
Kibble Ball
When the sun came out we spend some time in the back yard. Rueben spend the hour mostly walking a round very carefully sniffing all pee-mail and new smells, his nose was working overtime ;-). Together with our 14 y.o Lotte, here in the pic with her sweater on, it was chilly and she is 14 with arthritis and loves to keep warm, she just had her haircut for the winter last week, little did we know it would be so cold so soon.
Lotte and Rueben on squirrel watch
They watched the squirrels together and strolled around the yard. Lotte made a perfect 2nd day companion for Reuben who got the chance to get accustomed to all new smells and sounds in his own time.
Reuben also met our Nyx, the resident head of household catz and I tried video taping a small bit.
Overall we had a quiet day, took a nap during the afternoon, me in my bed, he in his crate and Lotte in her own bed ;-) Just all recovering from the excitement of the day before.
I updated Rueben's listing on Petfinder and on the Pacific NorthWest Border Collie Rescue web site and added a few new photos. For now all is quiet and everyone included DH is resting and getting ready for sleep. We’ll see what tomorrow will bring us. Feel free to drop me an email if you want to know more about Rueben. I'm pretty sure that I will be able to to tell you much more about his character and personality in the coming days when we all have settled down and got into our routine again.
Below are the first few photos I took of Rueben making his way through our backyard checking out the smells and sights.
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