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The little fellow has been with me since Saturday now. Will post some photos.

Have decided to call him Blitzen after all, which means lightning, or Blitz for short, so he will have the same name as his pedigree papers. I chose that name anyway from the criteria I was asked to pick from.

Very happy, alert and smart little puppy. Survived the 2 1/2 hour drive to Melbourne airport, the hour or so flight and the hour and half drive home. In the city I put him into a box without a lid expecting him to be quiet and had to fight with him with one hand the whole time as he wanted to get out and explore. Now his box has a grill as a lid.

When playing to keep him active and happy, he already is retrieving well bringing toy back to me and giving it to me, most times anyway. Usually only do it three times, as his attention span is not long. Starting to learn his name too. Not bad for eight weeks old. He has gone into a brief point several times already, usually at an insect or a leaf.

As tail docking is now illegal here, he has a full length tail and I think it will be a dangerous whip from the looks of it. Already a little shadow following me around everywhere and constantly trying to get into my feet, a few times to his detriment. He will learn from that.

Toilet training is pretty good too, as he is in a small room with a stone tiled floor (also good for cleaning) for coolness, it has been very hot (around 40 deg C for three days), and obviously does not want to do anything in there so as soon as he is outside he goes. The small room looks like a good training aid for the future.

He arrived probably the worst time of the year, being the busiest three weeks of the year for work, but it is still working out pretty well.

Has proved to be a Houdini so far as well and escaped through barriers one night, and found him sleeping on one of my shirts in the wrong room. Has climbed up shelves, found him sitting on a third shelf on some boots in the laundry (where he spent his first night). Now he has solid wooden doors to keep him where he should be over night.

Have to keep him out of the bushes this summer as too many of the brown "wriggley sticks" are around coming to the house surrounds for moisture. Something when older he will definitely need training to avoid.

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John aka NitroX

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