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I made it!! 'A Month of Medicine' Bacon Flu.

Oh dear... A month of movement? Movement is my weakness! haha!

'A Month of Medicine' Almost time to put my feet up!

A YouTuber had a cute way of training it...

No way is that shot pathetic! I love the sky - it really creates a mood..

Shell, I've got the 430EX - I can bring it over and you can test it out?

Can't wait to see whatever you came up with CM... It's always good!

'A Month of Medicine' Typical day in lectures... (if anyone wants to know and isn't sure - the thing up on the screen is a lateral (side-on) chest xray of someone with upper lobe pneumonia)

AND freak out my OH at the same time! Poor guy refuses to let me 'practice' on him -- you can't tell in the photo, but I put the plastic sheath (the part that stays in the vein) over the tip of the needle, so the needle didn't actually touch him... He's a wuss!

Awwwwwww!! They are so cute!!!!!! I love the singing one!! 'A Month of Medicine' "Just a small pinch..."

Thanks iltby... I guess it just looks very different to what I pictured in my head... *shrug* You guys are making me feel better about though... Thanks.

Congratulations Jules!

Yup, it's nasal spray. It was OH's idea... I don't like it... I think if I had more light it would look better? I don't know what would fix it.

I hate this photo, but I am too tired to try something else. It's late. 'A Month of Medicine'

Thanks tlc and leo. I'm running out of ideas!!!!!! Love the running shot tlc! They look like they're having a ball!! Leo I watched the video of the first meal! SO CUTE!!!!!!! The Shhhh photo is so cute!!!!!

I assume you're talking about just general lead walking and not formal heeling... If that's the case, I would start inside the house. It's certainly not something that I would teach at an OB club - there's too much potential for the dog to pull and be distracted by all the other dogs. So you're inside the house.. Remove all distractions and if you're using clicker training, click&treat when there is no tension on the lead. Once the pup is really confident walking inside the house, move to the backyard and start from the very beginning again. Once very confident there you can move to a very quiet area outside the house, say the front yard. Once alright there, try doing a very small walk up and down the street, etc. The important thing is that the dog doesn't learn to pull. If you keep walking while the dog is pulling you are just reinforcing that pulling = more walking. If the pup generally struggles with having a lead on, clip the lead onto the pup's collar during meal time. Don't hold onto it or anything, just let it sit there. As soon as the pup is finished its meal, take the lead off. Other ideas are that you can clip the lead on while it's in the house and just let it drag on the ground - just for short periods (a minute or two). You can always clicker train not to chew the lead, too. Just a few ideas... Good luck!

'A Month of Medicine'

My shot from yesterday... Found my anatomy notes from my previous degree. They are gold! And to think I almost threw them out a few years ago! 'A Month of Medicine'

Start training the day you get them home. This might not necessarily mean sit/drop/stand etc (you certainly can if you want to though) but treat the puppy as you would want your future adult dog to be treated. So if you don't want them to be on the couch, don't sit on the couch with the dog in your lap for the first couple of weeks - set the boundaries straight away.

Pretty much as shot - I just blackened the black of the shot but the reflection is real.

So true!!!! Finally got some time to catch up on editing... Here are my last 3 days. 'A Month of Medicine' Can you tell I was very busy this day??? haha... Boring folders! Injection (pretend) Sick Patient (for a scenario the uni ran for us today)

That's so true! I'm sure some dogs wouldn't care at all!! Even off lead Jedi rarely leaves me... He's what one would call a 'velcro' dog... Even if I release him he needs lots of encouragement to go and play with his dog friends! He would definitely notice if I went 'missing' all of a sudden!!

I think it would depend on whether the dog has been exposed to the clicker before (may not have been shaped, but knows what the clicker means), how difficult the end behaviour is and the individual dog.

Yesterday's photo... A Month of Medicine 'Suturing Practice'