Anna and I have often talked about Daffney during our time at Vellore remembering her one year with us.
She has now got used to her yard and kennel in the last four months since we moved her out from being indoor all the time. The enclosed yard is large and enough and the open kennel faces our veranda. She has constant visual contact with us while seated in her chair.
She has now her rhythm of morning and evening walks and running time in the compound twice a day. On a few occasions, she escaped in between the barbed wire of the compound, to accompany our domestic helper or someone who she is familiar with. Once she even decided to go into the paddy field to greet the neighbour’s cow. Fortunately, she would yield to our call to return , although with some resistance initially.
We have been inconsistent with our training protocol and yet, we feel comfortable with her response to ‘obedience’ practices. Among all the games she would love to tease us with is, to go hunting for coconut husk from the farm house and run around the house with it and settle down in the lawn to pull out the fibres little by little from the shell of the husk. She would not want to be disturbed during this. The other prank she takes delight in, is to go near the bird house and frighten the birds and sit there watching the birds flying wildly with loud chirp in the bird house. It is difficult to drag her away from there, except by force.
Daffney, being a beagle has all the behaviour patterns of its breed. We watch her run and fly over small parapets and bricks that separate the lawns. She runs up and down the stream that flows through the garden, when the plants are watered. There is no stopping of her till the water flow stops.
She reaches out to anything she can get hold of her and chew once indoor. So we have made the drawing room dog proof.
In the first week of November she completed one year! We hope she would settle down to an orderly rhythm! It was fun having her and receive her lavish affection!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
She has now got used to her yard and kennel in the last four months since we moved her out from being indoor all the time. The enclosed yard is large and enough and the open kennel faces our veranda. She has constant visual contact with us while seated in her chair.
She has now her rhythm of morning and evening walks and running time in the compound twice a day. On a few occasions, she escaped in between the barbed wire of the compound, to accompany our domestic helper or someone who she is familiar with. Once she even decided to go into the paddy field to greet the neighbour’s cow. Fortunately, she would yield to our call to return , although with some resistance initially.
We have been inconsistent with our training protocol and yet, we feel comfortable with her response to ‘obedience’ practices. Among all the games she would love to tease us with is, to go hunting for coconut husk from the farm house and run around the house with it and settle down in the lawn to pull out the fibres little by little from the shell of the husk. She would not want to be disturbed during this. The other prank she takes delight in, is to go near the bird house and frighten the birds and sit there watching the birds flying wildly with loud chirp in the bird house. It is difficult to drag her away from there, except by force.
Daffney, being a beagle has all the behaviour patterns of its breed. We watch her run and fly over small parapets and bricks that separate the lawns. She runs up and down the stream that flows through the garden, when the plants are watered. There is no stopping of her till the water flow stops.
She reaches out to anything she can get hold of her and chew once indoor. So we have made the drawing room dog proof.
In the first week of November she completed one year! We hope she would settle down to an orderly rhythm! It was fun having her and receive her lavish affection!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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