Living with your new dog, Mack Cairn Terrier

Mack's Mum has sent me some photos and an up-date on Life with their dog Mack. See my blog Cairn terrier finds a home.

Bobby

"To update you on Mack – who rules our lives lately.

Mack is enjoying life and we are too as we climb the steep learning curve of being competent dog Mum and Dad. Luckily Mack met Bobby in the park at the end of our street. Bobby lives just the other side of the park and is a handsome, well-behaved, gentleman - an 8 year old Cairn. They hit it off immediately! Bobby's Mum is a very experienced and knowledgeable dog trainer who kindly took the time to come with Bobby and his Dad to Mack’s house for afternoon tea.

Mack and Bobby played happily while Bobby's Mum gave us lots of ideas for food, grooming and healthcare. You can see that Bobby's Mum has clipped Bobby so he is comfortably cool over summer. His coat looks like ivory silk. His Mum said that when he was little he was identical in colouring to Mack. Cairns change colour as they grow up, and it isn’t always easy to tell how they will end up. Just shows what interesting dogs Cairns are!

Mack is not keen on getting up at 6 am for a walk on my two work days. Those days are a reluctant crawl around the block. He prefers my days at home when he now has a leisurely breakfast (like Bobby) of yoghurt and an “Original” Tux biscuit, followed by a little snooze. Then he is ready to set out for about an hour at approx 8.00 am, after Dad goes to work.

We walk through several trails of parkland in this suburb and then on to the Stebbings Dam where these days Mack gets to run off the lead and chase and fetch balls – as long as there aren’t any big dogs around at the time. He cools off with a swim in the dam before we head for home. He does it all again – or similar – after tea, with Dad. Tonight he supervised while we picked blackberries."

We will hear more of Mack adapting to life with his new Mum and Dad. He has just begun Obedience School.