My mom (kid's and dog's "Gran") has rented a cottage on Lake Huron, Lurgan Beach, near Kincardine for the past 2 years and dogs and children are welcome.
Last year we brought Dora; our South African Boerboel, this year both Dora and Jigger came along for the vacation.
We had a lovely time, the weather was perfect, my kids and my dogs were well behaved.
Jigger had been with us for 1 week before we left, and he impressed us mightily with his confidence and behaviour during the vacation.
Lake Huron is a deep lake and creates some decent waves; but Jigger had no problem jumping right in to water over his head and swimming; a feat I was pretty impressed with for a 9 week old puppy. I think he chose the swimming over staying on shore because both me, the kids and Dora were in the lake; but he soon figured out that Gran was sitting on the shore; so he didn't have to swim every time.
He was friendly and outgoing to all the people walking by and observant of all the dogs (it is an on-leash area but dogs are welcome to the beach). He made quite a few human friends during the week we were there.
He is learning that being in his crate is not torture (he screams a bit when he figures he should be out; but a bacon reward for going in and settling down is quickly changing his mind). It helps that Dora is also crated when we leave.
He is a good traveller in the car; we drove 3 hours on the way up, he was very good; we stopped at about the 2 hour mark for lunch and potty break; both dogs were excellent, well-behaved pets. On the way home we drove 2 1/2 hours to London to visit family and the dogs were again excellent. They didn't come in the house (it was a bit crowded) but they patiently waited in the van while we visited (it was a rainy evening so no heat issues) and came out and went for walks a few times with big "sister" Dora and the family.
All in all an uneventful vacation that was relaxing and enjoyable, with 9 week old puppy that had been with the family 1 week.
Again, thank you to Lisa Sands for producing such a confident and fun dog!
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| Jigger and Avi playing in the sand. |
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| Terrior Fun! |
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| Gran and Dora trying to figure out what Jigger is doing. |
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| Dora and Jigger watching passersby. |
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| The ears of confusion. |
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| Jigger swimming with Avi. |
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| Jigger's face after a mouthful of sand. |
