Tail Teaser Progress With Timken

The tail teaser by Kyjen has been something that Timken has not been a fan of. It isn't unusual to have foster dogs who are nervous around brooms and things with long handles, you just never know what experience a rescue dog has had in his past with certain household items. It was a cold snowy day so the perfect time to get out the toys and play with the dogs.

 Here are two previous blog posts on Tim and the Tail Teaser:

More Tim and Sybil

What I Mean When I Say Timken Has To Go Slow

Here are the most recent pictures and videos showing the progress Tim has made with playing with this particular toy. We think he is doing fantastic! Here is a nice sequence of pictures showing Tim getting more and more comfortable.

Note: the toy he is looking at is the one that looks like a white and tan tail to the left of the picture and it has a black cord connected to it. Timken keeps his distance from the tail but tail is relaxed and so far at this distance no Timken Stretch (blog post on this to come)

Then came the Timken Stretch...he does this when he is not sure of something. Looks like a playbow but it isn't in this case.

Tim says hmmmm I trust foster dad but not quite ready to get too close to that thing.

With it on the floor he does a half stretch but does manage to take a close sniff.

Looking a bit more confident now. More curiosity coming through. Good!

Now Vespa (center) had started to play with it, so now it is being moved and Tim is skeptical again.

But he relaxes a bit and doesn't move away. This is progress for sure!

Here is Birdie showing how she likes to play with Tail Teaser. She gets really crazy and once she catches it you feel like you have hooked a King Salmon! I like how Skip is with dad just watching the show. :)

 

Here you see Tim is still nervous but he does hang in there. He starts by going away from the whole scene but decides to go to foster dad and hang out with him while Birdie gets crazy playing. Then he decides he will move farther away again.

Here is Tim looking pretty ok to watch the Tail Teaser move very slowly. But he isn't quite ready....

He then miraculously gets closer and is really inspecting it but there was an noise by another dog in the back ground that made him decide to abort his gaze. I just know one day soon he will be chasing and killing that crazy tail. Stay tuned...........

oh and check out our cat Theo! He has some new digs. Because Tim sometimes chases Theo and we need to keep Theo safe, we made him his own little section where he can perch and watch everything that is happening from a safe distance. So far he loves his new area.

Here you can see he is x-penned in and he has a secret way to get in and out that the dogs haven't figured out yet :)