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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:19:28 GMT -6
Sweetie had never seen a frisbee before, but Sevyrn most definitely owned one and brought it with her. Maybe it was time to just play around with that a bit?
"Hey Sweetie!" She called to the houlou after pulling her frisbee out of her bag. This could go something like fetch, right? It was just a new object that Sweet hadn't seen before and would likely move in a way she didn't know just yet. That was okay, they had plenty of time - the pup had earned herself a really good break after the patience and obedience she had shown while Sevyrn kept playing with her limbs and face in ways that she really wasn't used to.
"Fetch!" She said as she threw the spinning disc, and the pup watched it fly by. Sevyrn had been right, the strange behavior of the object had confused her. That was okay. Once it hit the ground the pup went right for it, though!
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:28:13 GMT -6
Sweetie brought the frisbee back to Sevyrn in a gentle amble, tail wagging happily. This was a new toy! She didn't understand it, but she did really like it. She put the firsbee down at Sevyrn's feet and nudged it towards the woman with her nose, which Sev took as an invitation to try again. They would figure it out! All they needed was some practice, and then Sweetie would be a frisbee catching champion! Hey - that was something that she could show off at Sweet's debutante. She could fetch a ball and a frisbee, and she'd only really had to teach the foundation once.
"Alright, babes - fetch," Sevyrn said to the pup as she gently tossed it, aiming for the the frisbee to land about half way across the area. In a jiffy Sweetie was off running after it, only to reach where it landed a second after it had.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:30:53 GMT -6
Over and over again they kept that up, having a great time while doing so. It took a few more tries but eventually Sweetie snatched the frisbee out of the air for the first time! She was too excited to bring it straight back to Sevyrn, she wanted to stop and gnaw on it as a reward for her talent. No... that couldn't happen. Sevyrn did not want to have to go buy a whole new frisbee just because Sweetie had finally caught it.
"No - come here," Sevyrn said to the pup, who reluctantly picked her reward up and waltzed back to her human. The second time around she did a much better job of returning to where her girl stood, and she wanted to go again. "Okay - one last round," Sevyrn relented as she leaned down to pick up the disc. As soon as she tossed it the pup was off!
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:33:59 GMT -6
There was no denying that Sevyrn was finding herself incredibly tired, but there wasn't much left that needed to be done - it was a better idea to simply power through the last little bit than save it for tomorrow. Or, well, that was her thought process until she saw that Sweetie seemed to have utterly worn herself out. Perhaps it was time to pack things up and call it a day - Sweet could even spend the night at Sevyrn's home instead of at the kennel as a reward for such a good day.
"Alright, let's go home," Sevyrn said as she called the pup over to her. Once Sweetie was ready she clipped the pup's leash to her collar, packed up the various toys laying around, and then the pair made their way out of the training area. They would most definitely be back tomorrow - maybe Sevyrn would bring Spot with her too, and start his work as soon as she finished up with Sweetie.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:38:09 GMT -6
Early the next morning the pair did return! Sevyrn hadn't brought Spot along with them because she figured that things would be over and done with quick... She had decided that she could finish up working with Sweetie on her touch tolerance and call it quits there, at least for now. If the Hall wanted more out of the pup then she would most definitely return and teach her a couple more things but after thinking about it... Sweetie already had a pretty decent stack of knowledge under her belt. It was worth at least trying.
After settled in to the same area that they had before, Sevyrn shrugged her bag from her shoulders and then sat down. After calling Sweetie over to her she started to play around with her in the same way she had the night before, focusing on her face - just to see how well she was tolerating that after a short break.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:44:39 GMT -6
Sweetie obviously wanted to go play, but she was doing a pretty good job of keeping that to herself at least for now. They had just shown up and gotten to it without giving the pup a chance to wear out a bit of her energy, so that came as no surprise at all. All things considered, she was doing pretty damn good. Sevyrn hadn't given any attention to her ears the night before, so after Sweetie seemed to be doing well with the face touching she moved to playing around with the pups ears - she didn't seem to like it too much but only fidgeted and whined a little bit in response.
"What a good girl," Sevyrn cooed to the happy pup before giving her a little scratch right between the ears. She would move on to the front limbs next, then the hind ones - see how Sweetie took to having her legs manipulated and positioned. That would probably be the hardest part.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:48:34 GMT -6
Front legs, back legs, positioning - they would have this done in no time. Sweetie was smart and pretty relaxed when it came to being touched. She wasn't aggressive or uncomfortable, she just really wanted to go play and it all seemed like playing! She was quickly catching on that not everything was about playtime, though - hopefully she would realize that Sevyrn wanting to manipulate her legs had the same meaning as her simply checking out her face or ears.
With the pup laying down in her lap Sevyrn gently took a hold of the upper front leg, slowly working it in forward then backwards circles. The pup did seem very confused by what was going on and maybe mildly uncomfortable with that. After a few rotations Sevyrn slid her hand down to the pup's lower leg and then her paw. Once done she repeated what she had done as best as possible with the other front leg.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:52:06 GMT -6
Sweetie really had seemed to have gotten the hint about what was going on - it wasn't play time, it was chill time. It was time to let Sevyrn touch and manipulate her limbs and head without resistance. When the woman moved to the houlou's back legs, she didn't face even as much resistance as she had the first time she'd grabbed on to one of the front ones, despite doing the exact same thing. Paws - an area that tended to be a bothersome spot on some pups - weren't even an issue with Sweetie. Sevyrn could gently move each and every one of Sweetie's limbs around, even hold it in a position that it hadn't naturally been in. The tail, another potential problem spot, also came with no issues - perfect. Sevyrn was pretty pleased with this, and she hoped that if she went down to the Hall there would be no problem showing Sweetie for the first time.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 13:58:16 GMT -6
She came back later that day, a sucker for punishment. Training Sweetie had been one of the most intensive, drawn-out training plans that she had ever worked with before - the vast majority of the creatures she called her own never got past the basics and their working commands, if they had them. She really should have taken a break from the madness and just chilled out for a few days, but well... Why would she do that when she had a mission to go on? She did have a second houlou, after all - Spot. She had adopted the pair together, so how in the world was she supposed to even consider only training one of them up rather than both? She would probably take a bit more time with this little guy instead of rushing it all out at once, but it had to be done. Just like Sweetie, he was going to need a fancy show name as well...
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 17, 2020 14:06:31 GMT -6
"Alright - go run," Sevyrn said as they reached the training area, unclipping Spot's leash from his collar and then urging him to take some rips and get some of that energy of his out so that he would hopefully be a bit milder when it was time to get to work. Sweetie was playful, but Spot was outright rambunctious - he would probably be harder to work with than his adopted sister had been, and require a bit more patience. He was also most likely going to have to be explicitly taught not to bite... He didn't bite hard, it was more that he was the type to play-nibble, but nonetheless it wouldn't be acceptable behavior in a show dog - or even any animal that Sev owned. The last thing she needed was to get injured or for him to play just a little bit too roughly and end up hurting someone else.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 21, 2020 12:23:02 GMT -6
"Hey Spotty," Sevyrn said to the pup, deciding that it was time to get to work - but before they could start any actual training, the little guy was going to need to know his own name. After that they could work on basic obedience - come, stay, no, follow. After that... well, Sevyrn wanted to try to take a different route than she had with Sweetie. That had been fun and all, but there hadn't been much interesting going on. She would probably teach Spot a couple fun or cute things - fetch and shake, maybe, but she was going to finish his training down at the river by teaching him to swim and fish.
"Yeah - that's you," Sevyrn said to the pup as he dashed over towards his girl and jumped in to her lap the moment she sat down. "You, you're Spot - aren't you? Spot? Spot!" Every time that the young one looked at her, he got some loving.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 21, 2020 17:01:08 GMT -6
"Spot! What a good pup," Sevyrn cooed over the young houlou, pulling his attention towards her the moment that he started looking away from her. He was a pretty smart little thing and seemed to have little problem paying attention when needed, but that didn't mean he didn't want to run around and played. While Sevyrn sat there with a big grin on her face, the pupped leaped around and barked playfully at her, desperately wanting to have a blast with his person. After a while Sevyrn let him run about and get some more of that energy out - he was doing a good job and deserved some play time. No pup could focus for hours on end, and though they might get some tricks well practiced, it would take longer than a day for anything to be perfected. The short attention soan and boundless energy of young ones was something, that was for sure.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 21, 2020 17:06:40 GMT -6
Sevyrn pulled a ball out of her backpack and then clambered to her feet, tossing it to the pup who ran after it with sheer joy. Once he had worn out some of his energy and calmed down a bit, she started calling to him again. With time he became more and more responsive when she called his name, realizing that the sound 'Spot' meant that she wanted his attention. What for? Why? He was so excited to be out here with Sevyrn and he just wanted to run around and play with her. Why would he want to do anything else, anyways?
Hopefully that enthusiasm would wane just a little with time - Spot needed to be on his best behavior, obedient to his himan, in order to recieve the blessing of the Goddess and grow to his mature stage like his kennel mate Sweetie just had. "Spot!" Sevyrn called again, and the pup stopped to watch his girl.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 21, 2020 17:40:49 GMT -6
Oh how sheoved both her pups - though perhaps it was wrong to call Sweetie a pup now that she had grown. Pretty soon it would be Spot's turn as well, and then she would be left pupless. At that point in time she was going to have to start breeding herself, or perhaps pick up a puppy from the Houlou Hall. Now that she had a registered kennel and some experience with the pups she would be able to adopt, though she would have to do so when she knew that she had time to be able to at least start training. The association was pretty strict about that - there was no adopting pups and not giving them the training and life that they deserved.
"What a good boy Spot," Sevyrn said to the pup as he responded positively to his name. By now she was only having to calm him once or twice... she was going to put a bit more in to this before she decided to move on, though.
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Post by Sevyrn on Sept 21, 2020 17:45:42 GMT -6
Some more one on one time was all that they would need - the little boy was already doing so well. With just another short while the pup was looking towards his girl as soon as she called him, tongue dangling from the side of his mouth and tail just a-wagging. He was so happy! What did his girl want!? Did she want him? The houlou cocked his head at his girl, and then ran over to Sevyrn.
"What a good little boy," Sevyrn said, lavishing the sweet, excited pup in boundless affection for being so responsive and attentive. It was hard paying attention when the world was so new and exciting, with new experiences around every corner. It took a lot of work to focus on just one thing, but this little houlou had gotten better and better at it. It seemed that they might be ready to move on.
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