Last week Rumi spend the week at our place. Birgitte asked me to write a blog-post about having Rumi as a guest. Since Rumi was in heat, Birgitte asked us if we could please help her out to take care of one of her dogs. It’s one of the downsides of having two bitches and one stud. Last time Rumi was in heat Kaspar was sent away, this time Rumi was the lucky one. Rumi knows us pretty well. We, Mathijs, Ragne and I live in Twente, the eastern part of the Netherlands. Rumi stayed with us before, for example when Birgitte had a competition here in Twente. Our Flatcoated Retriever, Ragne, is 1,5 years old and is also a descendent of Brösel, like Kaspar and Lotte. Ragne really looks up to her half-brother, half-sister and stepmother, but on the other side she pushes the boundaries of how many kisses are tolerated by the other dogs. We often call Rumi the evil stepmother, because she puts Ragne in her place quite often. But this time she chose the role of easy-going, laidback companion and spent her week with sleeping on the sofa, good food, brain-games for entertainment and relaxed on-leash walks with lots of sniffing and rolling. We took the dogs to a hardware store for some brain stimulation. We had a good laugh when Rumi showed Ragne how to walk from cart to cart. At the end of the week Rumi let Ragne lay beside her on the dog bed. It was nice to see how the two of them bonded during the week. At the end of the week Rumi’s heat was over, so her retreat came to an end. On the last day we went for a citywalk that ended on a terrace with tea and brownies. The next day Birgitte came to pick her up to go straight away to a competition.
Above piece is written by Josine Woudsma.
Flatastic flatcoated retrievers 