Hide and Seek

If I ever get lost, I want them to send Ritter for me!

Yesterday, as part of the car ride adventure, we took the dogs to play at my grandma's house. It's a very nice yard with a large (empty) pond, a small grass area, stone walkways, raised ground areas, a bridge, and a long driveway. Overall it seems like a fun place to adventure if you're a dog or a young child.

When you read puppy books, they suggest playing hide and seek with your dog as a part of a bonding game. I guess also if you wanted to practice recall with them too.

Our yard, before the trees were cleared and the new fence put in, had a lot of vegetation to hide behind. I sometimes used to play hide and seek with Lilah when she was little, but she often found other things more interesting than looking for me. Or maybe she didn't feel it worth it to actively go to me, when I was clearly hiding behind the apricot tree.

Ritter, however, is a joy to play this game with. He'll trot around the yard with a slightly worried expression on his face as he searches known hiding places. Sometimes he gets help from bystanders in the yard, pointing towards my hiding place, but he always finds me to receive his reward of kisses and lots of affection.

So that's what we spent a lot of time doing at my grandma's backyard. Ritter found me majority of the time, with Lilah hot on his heels. After a certain point though, Lilah kind of stopped caring and Ritter hounded me everywhere so as not to lose sight of me.

I do wonder though, if I could wait long enough for Ritter to rescue me. The longest I've seen him in motion was yesterday and that was maybe an hour at most...Let's just hope we aren't separated by too much distance then when I get lost.