Week 10 - Quella and Maya get on well

Quella arrived home, and met Maya, fortunately they made friends right away, and have got on really well. It is lovely watching them interacting with each other, and quite amusing seeing Quella hanging onto Maya's tail, as it is easy for her to reach, and Maya does not react in any way, in fact when Quella manages to sink her sharp teeth into Maya, she will cry rather than tell her off, like her mother would have done.
Quella ate her first few meals with enthusiasm, as Labradors are noted for loving their food,I think they inhale it rather than eat it, as it disappears so fast, whereas Maya chews each kibble like a little lady. I gave Quella her last meal, just prior to bedtime, to ensure she had a full tummy for the night, to make sure we all got some sleep. I filled her fluffy cow hot water bottle, to put in her bed, for her to cuddle up to. I heard a little cry at 2am the next morning, she then went back to sleep. When I got up the next morning she had done a little puddle, on the puppy pad, so I am guessing that was why she cried at 2am. That has been the only night she had an accident, she has been clean overnight ever since.
Quella's first lesson in her training, is to learn to 'sit' and wait for her meals, then I blow a whistle three times, and that is the signal for her to eat. This is to teach her not to jump up for her food, as a Guide Dog could knock the food out of their owners hand, and bless little Quella, she was doing this quite relaxed by the fourth day. We also use the whistle when free running a puppy, as they will now have learned that, the whistle means food, so when the puppy returns to a puppy walker after the whistle has been blown, we then give the puppy a treat. Most Guide Dog owners use a collar with a bell on, and if the dog moves too far away for the bell to be heard, they will then blow the whistle, for the dog to return.