WE ARE HUFFIN' AND PUFFIN

For now, there is only text. Puffin is a female yellow lab; 23 inches, 54 pounds; and soon to be 2—February 12.

We seem to be well matched in pace and pull. She is fast and eager with signs that she will show good initiative—all qualities that I am looking for in my new partner. She is very affectionate and a bit vocal. I am wakened several times in the night with her looking for a pat or confirmation that all is right.

For now, there are no pictures. I hope to remedy this soon, but I can say that she has a silky coat, lighter on her under side. Her ears are darker and she is slightly darker than Trinity by my trainer’s best guess. She is playful and seems to enjoy her nylabone and Cong. She is also an eager worker.

If you want to know what the training process has been, check out the first nine days of my blog with Trinity and compress things into 7 days and you will have a general idea of what we have been doing. We completed our solo of the South Street loop today.

The delay in beginning this blog was due to considerable fatigue with jet lag and lost sleep. So far, since New Years Eve, I would say that I have had one good night’s sleep.
I am unable to send e-mail messages and that is the way I had hoped to add entries to my blog. Failing that, I needed to have enough free time with enough energy to rediscover how to post entries directly to the blog site. If this works, then I will be blogging more regularly.