It seems like forever since I last wrote a post for this blog, you start out with such good intentions and then you get distracted by other things. Life is of course ever changing but I think that I can now hold up my hands and say that I was badly prepared to become a home schooler, move house and change career all in a period of 4 months. With all of that going on it was quite a whirlwind end to 2009 for our entire household including Fig.

I have so much material to share with everyone about the continuing work that we are doing with Fig, he has become an intrinsic part of the family however we are still working on some of the traits that he gained as a stray. He is a great source of fun and love around the house but can often be overly anxious and neurotic if some external stimuli sets him off.

His socialization with other animals is an ongoing struggle, we are well on the way to winning the war but there have been plenty of set backs on the way.

On a sad note the poor hamster died in December of natural causes. My youngest daughter now has her eyes on some goldfish lets hope that they don’t have the same effect on Fig that the Hamster did!

It’s going to take a few days to get the material into some kind of order but I hope that by mid February I will be well on the way to posting regular updates.

I have found that the training of a rescue dog can be very challenging. I have met some great people along the way that have shared their stories with me and ensured that this has not been a long and lonely road. I have also happened across many techniques/tools/books some good and some really not so good that I will also be sharing with you.

Oh and at last we think we know what breed he is….he seems to be at least part Patterdale Terrier…this is still of course open to vigorous debate everyone has a different opinion but part Patterdale seems to be the most likely yet.