This morning we went to the beach. Although it was early, around 8:30am, there were some people there. We met one lady from Madrid with a 5 month old border collie cross puppy called Bruma (Mist). They had got her when she was 2 months old from a shepherd in the Cabrales area [...]
During the first few days after she arrived, Salma was - not unnaturally - a little unsettled and even confused. Where am I? Everything is new here! New people, new dog, cats… She needed to follow us around whenever we moved as it appeared that we were her anchor in this new environment. After a [...]
Last night I noticed that Salma was nibbling at a hind paw. On examination I discovered that the right hind paw was red and inflamed between the pads. She may have stood on something which irritated it but was not apparent at the time. I put a few drops on German Chamomile in between the [...]
This morning we went into town to give Salma an urban experience of waking in town on lead. What an exhausting morning she had!!! She travelled very quietly in the car but when she arrived in the town she was quite overexcited by so much going on – cars, people walking around, noises (a delivery [...]
This morning we went shopping. Mimi and Salma stayed quite happily in the car. This was Salma’s first time to stay in the car without human company. Afterwards I took them out to the end of the car park near the road. Salma was mesmerised watching the traffic. She was moving her head like she [...]
Yesterday we decided to take trail along the river. When we had tried to go there before with Sasha it was impossible as the trail was totally overgrown. However, we discovered that it had been cleared so we went along it following a circular route which brought us out quite close to home. Today we [...]
Yesterday afternoon we did two exercises. The first was free work. I put out a variety of different surfaces, some smooth and others more rough and a tray with a few plastic balls, and placed pieces of cheese on them. Salma did not have a clue at first but Mimi, who in the past would [...]
20 April This morning we went to the beach. On the way there Salma lay down in the caravan when the road was straight but sat up when there were bends. She ran and explored and sniffed but she was always attentive to us and came back every so often to check on [...]
April 15th Today we picked up Salma, the new member of the family. This is the first time that we have taken an adult dog who had a home but didn’t know us beforehand. Three of the dogs we have had came to us when their owners died, but we knew them before. Our first [...]
Almost every afternoon we have been walking past a property where nobody lives. Today we met a neighbour who invited us to go inside. He said “Maybe we will see Bobby.” Bobby turned out to be a dog. In all the times we had passed by we had never seen or heard a sound. We [...]