We graduated from puppy class shortly after the previous post and came away with a certificate to say we showed up and a rosette for...

It’s been a few weeks since the last update, so time to set the scene again. Having finally escaped the bandages following my hand...

Five months old! Blimey, it seems a lifetime ago that we brought Venn home and at the same time the months have gone in a flash. So what...

Surgery on my hand has made for a slightly different couple of weeks where the tempo of training has had to ease a little, and Venn has...

Exploring the wider world continues at a pace. Possibly an unsustainable one; I will have to get some other jobs done sooner or later....

The key feature of this week was the long-awaited release from vaccine confinement, and the resultant opportunities to view the world...

The week just gone has featured some landmarks and signs that the lovely Ms V is growing. Again, some good, some not so. On the landmark...

Another variable week this week, with progress in some areas and some less desirable outcomes in others. Understanding what Venn is...

Much has already been written about what we are trying to tell Venn, but probably the defining feature of this week has been starting to...

Venn reached the dizzy heights of 3 months old just as the B&B moved into its busiest season. Between cooking breakfast, hoovering and...

It’s been a mixed week for Venn and I, with steps both forward and backward, and with a bit of poo to tread in along the way. On the...

In order to be taken on as a trainee search-dog, Venn will have to pass the OBEDIENCE TEST and the STOCK TEST (but more of this one...

How quickly the days fly by when you are not sleeping! This week Venn has found her voice, developing that puppy whine into a...

So the end of our first week with Venn rolls by and what do we know now that we didn’t PV (pre-Venn)? Well, there was good and (in the...

Lots of organisations prepare dogs to search, but the dogs used by Mountain Rescue (MR) are trained and operated by the Search and Rescue...

The books have been read, the concerns worried about, the electrical cables tidied away, and so it was time to fetch Venn, aged 8-weeks,...

They say that if you put two dog-trainers together in a room then you will get three opinions on how best to do the job. I have now read...

A constant nagging worry is the thorny issue of how a new dog will fit into the messy but functioning equilibrium of our home life. The...

The name bit was easy, but just what kind of dog do we want to train as a search dog? There is a heart and head component to this so bear...

Nell came to us with her name, and Kip was an unexpected addition to the family and was named on the fly. The others, Tess and Venn, had...