She is growing up very fast and lost the first of her needle-sharp puppy teeth on the 2nd January. She is now onto the molars so the end of teething is in sight! Teething is probably one of the few aspects of puppyhood that I would gladly fast-forward through.
At Christmas there were lots of new people (mostly relatives) to meet and she loved meeting them all almost as much as she enjoyed getting cuddles and fuss from them. She was mostly good with Christmas Trees. She didn't pull them over or chew them. She very carefully picked the decorations and ornaments off them and then carried them round trying her best to evade capture and having them taken off her. She didn't damage a single one, unless you class a coating of dog slobber as damage, but she is a gundog after all.
We have started puppy classes. She is doing very well at them and enjoys going, but they do wear her out. The class is held in a scout hut 1 mile from where we live so we walk there and she has a little little run in the park on the way. The class is an hour long and then we catch the bus back home again. By the time we get home she has just enough energy to eat her supper and crawl onto the sofa before falling asleep.
I have plenty of plans for places to take her and things for us to do once the weather is slightly warmer and (hopefully) drier. By that time she will be old enough to be able to have a day out without me needing to worry about getting back to the car so she can have an afternoon nap.
Hilda loved the snow.
In the end I had to take her out into the garden on her lead otherwise she wouldn't come back inside.
She enjoyed singing Christmas Carols
She is getting on well with the cats
I entered a competition for her and she won a bag of puppy food.
Here is is next to her prize demonstrating where the prize should go!
