This evening was Loki's turn for individual tuition/training attention from me, and I was working on her sit/stays/heel work (very difficult to perfect when you are walking 2 or 3 on leads :D) .    We had done some work in the field - managed to get her sitting in a field full of rabbit holes (they just disappeared as we came over the fence) , and her "downs" were improving, so we continued on her walk, down the sand lane and on the headland between the old beech wood and fields.   It was a lovely evening, and I was looking into the wood, enjoying the sight and smell of the bluebells when I was aware of movement in the undergrowth.   I put Loki into another sit - and then I saw a fox - sitting looking at us!  Behind it, I think I saw two or three young cubs slipping away - but the big one must have been the vixen - and she sat, looking at us looking at her, whilst her young went to ground!

Loki was so good - she just sat there until I told her good girl - she got and extra large piece of cheese for that - and I threw another piece in towards the fox as she too was so good!

I'm intending to go back that way with Loki tomorrow morning - complete with camera and see if I can't catch it on film - probably wont see them when I'm carrying a camera though!

As we came back I realised that the swallows and swifts are also back - brilliant - summer is a-coming in - although I can't say that I've heard the cookoo yet!

I think Loki knows how good she was - shes been extra good this evening - hasn't been banished to the utility room at all, even when I was cooking & we had dinner - she is just by my knees the whole time!   

These individual evenings in do seem to be working - all the dogs enjoy having us to themselves for an evening, then next morning, happily hop off down to the kennel again for the day!!

Margot

Oh I missed this one till today. What a fab dog Lokis is :) Hope you get some good pix and the swifts come my way soon. Very impressed Loki resisted the rabbit  temptation unlike Morse the Bunny Slayer. Next dog is gonna be called Herne the Hunter in case Morse teaches him bad habits.  :D

Loki was good - but I do think it would have been a different story with the labs - Purdey will still get up a head of steam when she sees the bunnies! :D :D :D

Took the camera this morning - no sign of the foxes, but I have got some of the geese which "rest up" here for a week or so before flying your way, Lorelei!

Actually broke with tradition last night, and let Loki come up stairs to bed - OH was not impressed when she decided to tell him that the alarm had gone off at 5.35 this morning :D