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PC Wilkinson - Puppy: Tala
January 2010
My puppy Tala is now 13-weeks-old and happily living with my two other working police dogs and one retired police dog.
She enjoys barking at everthing, playing with her toys and eating her food.
She particularly enjoyed playing in the snow over the past few weeks and liked chasing snowballs.
She likes sleeping too as it helps her grow which she seems to be doing very quickly!
February 2010
Tala is coming along leaps and bounds and like her brothers and sisters getting very big, and is starting to look like a proper lady dog!
Her ears are refusing to stand up unless the wind is blowing in the right direction, and her paws are way too big for those legs! Hopefully she will grow into both.
She’s responding well to her name and her recall is great. She "speaks" for her toys and has started to bark at people passing by which is a good sign of a wannabe Police Dog.
She loves playing with Jango the Spaniel, but sometimes gets a bit too boisterous so has had a few tellings off by the bigger dogs!!
She and Floyd often engage in a game of tug with the rubber tug toy, her at one end and Flyod at the other. Tala gets 10 out of 10 for trying but she knows the games over when Floyd shows his teeth!
She’s doing quite well in her kennel and "little accidents" are now few and far between, and the days waking her dad up at 5am to make sure she has a toilet are getting less thank goodness!
She had her first visit to the beach a few weeks ago and loved it, and enjoyed her first paddle. She couldn't understand why the water tasted funny though.
It would appear she quite likes gardening and has recently helped with creosoting the fence, digging up the plants (and eating them!) and trimmimg the Buddleia.
She has also discovered the well known doggy game "throw the humans flip flop in the pond and stand barking at it" the frogs aren't at all happy with this and have taken refuge under the log pile.
She has learned very quickly not to chase our two cats, she still looks at them with a naughty glint in her eye, but knows better than to run after them. A quick sharp cat claw across the nose is very humiliating for ruffty tuffty Police Dog in the making!
March 2010
"Well its official, I am Northumbria Polices first ever gardening Police Dog!
The humans have created a vegi patch just for me, and the other day when they were out, I had a lovely dig in the pumpkin patch, stood all over the tray of rocket (who eats that stuff any way????) and I have chewed my way through the garden hose (yummy!) I thought I had made a lovely job of it but dad human didn't look too impressed when he returned home and I was sent back to the kennel!
How ungrateful! Never mind, its all fixed now so next time i'm left to play i'll sort that out!!!"
"I am learning lots of new things, and have now started to do "run in’s" where a pretend criminal goes and hides and I am allowed to go and find them.
I can smell them a mile off and its great to find them hiding. I bark like mad in my deepest scariest bark, and show my big teeth, and I get lots of praise off my dad (unlike when I destroy the garden hose!). "
"The weather has been really hot recently, far too hot for me to be walking round with this big furry jacket on! You humans don't know how lucky you are not having to wear one of these! I have been having lots of sleep time and lots of water to keep me cool, a hose down would be nice... if it worked! (oops shouldn't mention that again!) I think I prefer snow... its more fun"
