The DOOM Spaniels

Tristan really, really enjoys when he is able to help me. Last night I was looking at lists of service dog tasks for ideas of more helpful tricks I could teach him, and was impressed by how many of those tasks he already does for me. Sensitive boy doesn't have the temperament to actually be a full time service dog, but he would be really good at some more of these. Smart boy. Helpful boy. Excellent boy.

Then I opened the door for the last outside trip of the night, and he charged down the ramp and straight into the fence.[*] (I think there must have been a rabbit, that bolted through the gaps when it saw him.) Straight into the fence. *smack* The fence that's been right outside the house for his whole life.

Tristan contains multitudes.

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[*] Gwyn did too. They're both fine. We checked.

See this thing? Merlin’s Primary Human and Yvaine’s Personal Furniture each have one of these, because our first cocker liked to chew leather… specifically, wallets. We still keep our wallets in them, but we never latched them. Just putting the wallets into them was sufficient protection.

Yvaine’s Personal Furniture keeps a small bag of dog treats in her mini-trunk. Merlin found it while the dogs were home alone (so, so alone, abandoned forever). He managed to OPEN the trunk and pull everything out to get to the treats. He might have had help.

Clever little rascals.

Time to start latching the mini-trunk when the dogs are alone in the house. These dogs are *really* good at problem-solving.

(Rerun from the DOOM Spaniels Facebook page, June 2017, because they are clever spaniels.)