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Mango's progress report. From chasing to watching the birds together..

Hi everyone. Mango is 1 year old now and has been in adolescence as of 5 months old I think...some things we get used to, some come and go, we continue training and hope he will mature later on...some things I wanted your advice on as I think it might be partially breed related.

1. Fomo. Fomo is really a thing here. I can leave him alone at home for a while, but its impossible for me to go upstairs and do the laundry. Or go to the garden for 5 minutes to do something without his assistance, as he is a huge plant lover lol. He will start barking until I return. Not sure how to deal with it.

2. Dinner (lunch, whatever) time. He tries to jump on the dining table for food. We tell him "sit", or "place and stay", we tether him, and even try to put him in a small room next to the dining room while we eat. He does not get interested in a chew while we are eating. If we try to separate him from the dining table by tethering, for example, even if I sit next to him then, he starts barking. So no idea how we can eat as a family without him jumping on the table for food or barking because he can not.

3. Barking because he does not get what he wants/ not allowed something. He does not bark at other dogs, cats, at anything, just because we do not let him do something.

4. Other dogs. They take his attention completely away from me. I let him off leash only if its open space and no dog to be seen. The moment there is another dog, his recall is zero. And he will not let this dog alone, tries to play. Even when the other dog shows its enough, almost bites him, he continues. As if he does not read their body language. As a result we try to avoid the dogs and he does not get that much off leash time.

Mango 1 year old! Birthday boy.

First vacation with Mango. He enjoyed for sure. Driving home now, with overnight stay. 6 hrs today and 6 tomorrow.

First long drive travel with Mango (12 hours, we divided it into 2 days). Denmark. He enjoys the cold sea

One more month and he will be 1 year old, can't believe it.

Hi everyone.

So I know my breeder will never read it, she is not on Reddit. Mango comes from a fantastic breeder. If I ever go for one more springer, I will chose her again.

Now about the leash. I take a lot of advice from our breeder. She has lots of knowledge. However, this is what she uses for leash walking - to avoid misunderstanding, her dogs walk like 90% of the time off leash. But for the walks when they need to "behave", this is what she uses. What are everyones thoughts on this?

Gewoon omdat hij schattig is. Onze kat liet wat brokken liggen (hij eet vaak buiten met die warme weer) en toe kwam die gast...

Some summer pictures of Mango and a slight progress with the cat (still chases but now not ALL the time)

Some home puctures. I love flowers, some in these pictures are from our garden, live arranging them.

Waiting...something Mango is very good at!

Our teenager 😅

Swimming!

Warm weather here, so we had to think of some water for him in the garden.

Loves swimming, our 9 m.old.

9 months and a terrible teenager. Very happy young gentleman 🤣 Recall is absent, leash manners absent. But a delightful company, a bit too velcro for me but am getting used to it. Loves swimming!